The Educational Foundation’s scholarship program strives to reward excellence in the study of science and technology. The United States currently faces a huge deficit in scientists, engineers and other professionals with the technical educations to provide for national defense, homeland security and a growing economy. To help alleviate this disparity, the Foundation has expanded eligibility criteria for undergraduate scholarships to include the following or related fields: technology management, management information systems, and science or mathematics education.  Majors directly related to the support of U.S. national security or intelligence enterprises with relevance to the mission of AFCEA will also be eligible. For more information, contact Norma Corrales via Email.

Note:  It is important to remember that AFCEA membership should not be a requirement for scholarship eligibility. Please review Chapter criteria to ensure that you do not include this as a condition for application.  For more information, please check the Scholarship Start-Up Guidelines.

Nomination forms and guidelines for the 2008 National High School Science Fair are now available online.  Each AFCEA Chapter in the United States is encouraged to nominate one project - deadline for receipt of completed forms and accompanying VHS or DVD is Monday, April 21, 2008.

New in 2008:  The Grand Prize winner AND the First Honorable Mention winner are both eligible to attend and display his/her projects at the Joint Warfigthting Conference in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on June 17-19, 2008.  Click here for details.  This expanded opportunity is made possible by a joint effort between AFCEA Chapters and the AFCEA Educational Foundation.

       WHEN:        Monday, June 16, 2008 

       WHERE:      Virginia Beach, VA 

       WHO:          Chapter Presidents/Education VPs/Other Interested Parties

       WHAT:        Click here for more information

CALL FOR BEST-PRACTICES!  In order to facilitate productive discussions, we are asking you to submit copies of scholarship applications, Science Teaching Tools grant applications, samples of award letters, fund requests and thank-you letters, etc.  Send e-copies to Email.  The items will be hand-outs for the Summit. 

For questions, please contact Ted Bronson, Education VP, Washington DC Chapter, at efbronson@aol.com. 

 Re-established
Marianas Chapter
  Installs New  Officers

Mr. William Nelson conducting an experiment with students made possible by a $1,000 AFCEA Science Teaching Tools grant awarded by the Kaiserslautern Chapter.  As part of a national after-school science program, Hands On Science Outreach (HOSO), students attended one-hour classes once a week for 8 weeks in one of three curriculums:  Anatomy, Chemistry or Earth Science.  The program, which encompassed three 8-week sessions, was conducted in fall 2007 and served a total of 286 students.  Each class in a particular course built on the knowledge of the previous class, creating a wonderful foundation in science in a fun and exciting forum. 
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AFCEA
Medal of Honor Scholarship

Each recipient of the AFCEA Medal of Honor Scholarship receives a copy of Medal of Honor:  Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty, a compendium of America's

Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.  Available at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon.com, bn.com, and wherever books are sold. Click here for scholarship information.

ATTENTION CHAPTERS!

IMPORTANT IRS ANNOUNCEMENT

The following information is provided from Mr. Steve Knell, CPA,

AFCEA Chief Financial Officer.   For questions, contact Norma Corrales at

703-631-6149 or Email.

The IRS has announced a new filing requirement for small nonprofits.  Formerly, nonprofits whose gross receipts were normally less than $25,000 were not required to file Form 990.

Beginning in 2008, such organizations (including all AFCEA Chapters) will need to file, what the IRS is calling, a "Form 990-N e-Postcard".  This will be an information filing which will ask for the organization's name, address, website, principle officers and a statement attesting to the fact that revenues do not exceed $25,000.  The IRS is currently developing the form and the related filing process and will announce its completion.

Failure to file this Form will result in revocation of exempt status.  Details can be found at the following website.  Please do not hesitate to contact us if there are any questions.

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