Stipend for advisors?

[rfolea]

Ignore last reply - Our teachers get about $1900 plus PLU credits.

[Nate Edwards]

Our teacher gets $300, pretty low I think. When I was working at NASA this summer and going around for support of robotics education I came across the bill that should be introduced very soon by Congressman McCarthy from NY and Langevin from Rhode Island. It is aimed to provide teacher stipends for robotics at every high school with a robotics team and also provide training for those teachers that don't know as much. That is all the details I know right now, but I think it would be great.

[notaPINKtruck]

I know that this year (after much campaigning) our teacher-mentor is getting a stipend from the school board for robotics. As for the amount, and whether that applies to other robotics teachers in the district I can't speak for. I suspect it doesn't, because she's also helping develop a FLL/FTC-based robotics curriculum to be used in elementary/middle school science classes.

We've made major headway with out school board/superintendent this year. I think anyone else facing resistance like we did should remember that when encountering resistance, persistence is the key.

[Not2B]

Our school gives nothing to the teacher, the teacher has to pay for his own travel, and any substitute teachers has to be paid out of his class budget.

I'm going to pass this thread onto him.