Here are a few highlights of CFF Activities for this week:

• The CFF Board has officially appointed Blake Miller, Cymer to the Board of Directors and we'll look forward to having him on the CFF Team. In 2008 Cymer provided $4,000.00 for two High Tech Academic Achievement Scholarship.

• ITV staff visited the Midway to plan for the May 14th CFF Event and to discuss the logistics and staging of the Innovation in Education Awards program with the Midway event representatives.

• The CFF Annual Event Working Group met on the Midway to finalize the program agenda and a downsized meal function while maintaining the high quality awards program enjoyed at previous CFF events.  The Working Group also suggested that we invite Kevin Johnson, Sacramento's first Black Mayor and former NBA star, as a speaker for the awards program.  Randy Ward will be asked to send the invitational letter to Mr. Johnson.

• I was appointed to the California Emerging Technology Fund's School2Home Sustainability Design Team to create recommendations on resources for broadband connection between schools and homes.  Other team members include: Devin Whitney, AeA; Joe Camicia, Chief of Staff, Office of State CIO; Rick Miller, Deputy Superintendent, Policy Development and External Affairs, CA Dept. of Education; Peter Birdsall Executive Director, Advocacy and Association Services; and Paul Lamb, Consultant, The Children's Partnership.

• Heather Lade, General Atomics, visited the JRRTC and toured the technology center and ITV in preparation for a grant proposal to be submitted to NASA to support a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) initiative with teachers, students, and the community.  CFF would be one of the project partners in the proposal and would facilitate the engagement of the TIME2INNOVATE teachers.

At the board meeting, Rick introduced the CFF Communities that we intend to use for board committees.  Please read the instructions posted on the Innovation Wizard.

These instructions will guide you on how you can join CFF Communities and authenticate yourself to view the protected CFF Board Discussions.  Once authenticated, all of the board committee and working group discussions will be visible as a quick way for you to review the work of CFF.

In the future the CFF Activities Updates will be located on the CFF Committees  for your review so be sure to join and authenticate yourself this week.  Please let me know if you have any questions or would like additional information on these activities.

Regards,
Bruce