Deputy Executive Director of AIPLA, Vince Garlock Talk - Hot IP Issues on the Hill
May 12, 10 am-11am, Madison North

Please join us as Vince Garlock, Deputy Director of AIPLA, discusses pending intellectual property legislation and its potential impact on the patent world.

For MCS Instructions: click here

To view the slides from the presentation: click here

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National Lab Day
Starts May 12, 2010

Please join Director Kappos in helping further the Office's initiative to volunteer and bring science and math to the classrooms. You may volunteer through the National Lab Day site: http://my.nationallabday.org/USPTO . There are many ways to get involved both though National Lab Day and through our programs in place with the PTOS: Kids 'n Chemistry (contact Michael Mansen), Science Fair (contact Julie Ann Watko), and ReSET (contact Christyann Pulliam or Yara Green).

We hope that you will help us bring the excitement of science to kids.

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"Interested in helping local high school students and having fun at the same time?

Consider participating in the Campagna Center’s – Building Better Futures program

We are always looking for tutors and mentors. As the school year draws to a close, though, it is more important than ever to have active, smart, enthusiastic tutors come in to work with the students. We welcome tutors in math, science, history, English, and other subjects. Tutoring is offered at TCW Monday through Thursday afternoons and at the Minnie Howard Campus on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday afternoons as well as during the day in the math department.

Right now, we have a desperate need for English, Chemistry and Biology tutors!

A couple notes on BBF that you may not know:

-          Volunteers helped more than 120 students at TCW last year, and 90% of those showed grade improvement! We are on track to work with more than 180 students this year.

-          Our graduating seniors this year have been accepted to more four year schools than ever before – and, they have been accepted to such prestigious schools as UVA, Notre Dame, William and Mary, Boston College, Old Dominion, Mary Washington, Regent, George Mason, Virginia Tech, Saint Johns, James Madison, Virginia Commonwealth, Marymount, NOVA, and the Pathways Programs

-          We celebrate the more than ten BBF seniors who won Scholarship Fund of Alexandria awards, including the first two SFA renewable scholarship winners in the history of BBF; already our scholarships for the year include four full-ride scholarships, more than $50,000 from SFA, and several other 2/3 and 3/4 scholarships and grants for our seniors for next year

-          Our students will begin work on a long term community service project this week, documenting what they have learned (and what they wish they’d known) about the college process and finding scholarships for future generations of BBF and their parents

-          More than half of our students who head to college will be in the first generation of their families, if not the first in their families, to go to college

-          Our tutors, mentors and volunteers are absolutely fantastic, providing our students with guidance, friendship, role models, interesting new experiences, and so much more!"

Volunteer at either of these schools by mentoring, tutoring, or even reading essays to help students prepare for college. Once a week or twice a month commitments are preferred.

Tutoring: 3:20-4:55 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays
College Prep: 3:20-4:55 Wednesdays

To volunteer, contact Christyann Pulliam at christyann.pulliam@uspto.gov
www.campagnacenter.org

Building Better Futures Flyer