Fasten your imaginary space vehicle seatbelt and be ready for a fascinating journey into my cyberuniverse system of home pages. Structured on my many diverse interests, you surely will make some contacts with some new knowledge from the infinite largeness of outer space to the infinite smallness of the basic particles of matter. If you find no new interests, it is probably because you have journeyed down the path of new knowledge more than I have. If that is the case, then please let me know some of the amazing discoveries that you have made during your voyage. While exploring the links in my cyberuniverse, please be aware that those who run the linked home pages are responsible for the information that they give and my links to them do not mean that I endorse or agree with everything on their home pages. Also please be sure to give me credit for any of the text or graphics from this page that you copy and pass on to others. However, you are welcome to establish a link to my cyberuniverse from your home page.
Biographical data.
My award from President Clinton.
Go to my cybermeme.net website. There you can find the links to all of my websites - over 500 pages online!
I have another homepage site located in the "Athens" section of geocities. You can go to this page, The Cybergalaxy of James Petrait
I also have a site called The Cybermeme Site This homepage is an attempt to develop an evolutionary way of education in cyberspace by the use of the science of memetics. Visit this site and become infected with a kind of meme that I call a cybermeme!
I also run the home page for St. Joseph High School, St.Croix, Virgin Islands.
AT THE MAY 10, 1996 PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS CEREMONY IN WASHINGTON D.C.
I am standing next to the NSF Director.
I am shaking the hand of the NSF Director.
Hillary Clinton giving the Keynote Speech at the Awards Ceremony.
I was the only secondary science teacher from the U.S. Territories group to receive the national Presidential Award at the National Academy of Sciences. Hillary Clinton gave the keynote speech and the award included a week of expense-paid activities in Washington, D.C. These activities included dinner at the State Department, a dinner-cruise on the Potomac, and a reception at the Smithsoniam Air and Space Museum.
-B.A. degree from the University of Detroit.
-M.ED. degree from the University of Georgia.
-Also took courses at the Catholic University of America, Christian Brothers College, Vanderbilt University, St.Lawrence University, Ball State University, Brigham Young University, West Virginia University, and Northern Arizona University.
-Nationally-published articles in the American Biology Teacher, the Science Teacher, the Catholic Digest, the U.S.Congressional Record, the Journal of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers and numerous other publications.
-Science education lectures and workshops given at Chicago, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Detroit, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Layton, Orlando, Purdue University, Anaheim, and at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
-Winner of five national science education awards: 1) Outstanding Biology Teacher Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers, 2) a STAR Award from the National Science Teachers Association, 3) an Ohaus Award from the National Science Teachers Association, 4) another Ohaus Award, and 5) Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching, VI Territory level and national level, received in Washington, D.C. on May 10,1996.
-Former President of the Michigan Association of Biology Teachers.
-Former President of the Utah Biology Teachers Association.
-Former Board member of the Utah Science Teachers Association.
-Participated in eight National Science Foundation Programs.
-Contributed to the BSCS Biology, Green Version, 6th Edition. Name appears on Page VII.
-Listed in the following Who's Who books: The International Who's Who Of Intellectuals, Cambridge, England, 1990; The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, the American Biographical Institute, 1989; Men of Achievement,Cambridge, England, 1989; Current and previous editions of Marquis Who's Who In Science and Engineering and Marquis Who's Who in America and Marquis Who's Who in the World and starting in 2003-2004, Marquis Who's Who in American Education,
-Visited the main control room at the U.S. Atomic Bomb testing site in Nevada and stood at the rim of an atomic bomb crater.
-Present at the noon launch of the space
shuttle Challenger's last successful flight from Cape Canaveral. -Started the Seeds For A New Life
program on St.Croix after Hurricane Hugo. It resulted in thousands of
packets of seeds which were distributed on St. Croix.
-Directed 12 large science fairs, five of
which were affiliated with the International Science and Engineering
Fair.
-Teacher of numerous students who won top
awards at various science fairs including 7 student finalists at San
Juan, Fort Worth, Shreveport, and Knoxville.
-Distinguised Graduate of the 1992 NSF Radio
Astronomy Institute at Greenbank, WV. Continuing Astronomy Associate
at Greenbank.
-First science teacher from the Virgin
Islands to receive national certification from the National Science
Teachers Association in biology and general science.
-Teacher Resource Agent for the American
Astronomical Society,
-Access Excellence Fellow, 1996, for
oustanding biology teachers sponsored by the Genentech Corporation
and NSTA.
-One of the twelve finalists (out of 61
applicants) and an alternate for the Albert Einstein Distinguished
Educator's Fellowship adminstered by the Triangle Coalition for
Science and Technology Education, June,1997.
-A Participant in the AASTRA Astronomy
Education Leadership Institute at the University of Texas, Summer,
1998.
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