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Welcome to SWAT

Students Working to Advance Technology, Inc.

SWAT was Founded by Lucy Miller-Ganfield, contact me lucyganfield@gmail.com

1997 National Technology Teacher of the Year

Awarded by Technology and Learning Magazine and Microsoft

January 25, 2010-Microsoft and the Corporation for National and Community Service Launch New Initiative to Promote Student Leadership in the Classroom - SWAT forms new Partnerships, read about it here.

AWARD Winning SWAT sites are announced!

SWAT Consulting Services are now bundled with the SWAT Resources!

Join others to learn how to design award-winning SWAT programs

for your school and community

Link to SWAT Purchase Order invoice

START Serving Now!

I welcome an opportunity to expand the SWAT program to any level it can reach. If you are interested in partnering with, or donating to SWAT, please contact me at lucyganfield@gmail.com

See my Linked In Profile

View Lucy Miller-Ganfield's profile  

Since its inception in 1997 and through past partnerships with several institutions SWAT Teams are taking the lead in supporting teachers and students with technology needs at their schools and in their communities. There are now hundreds of SWAT Team Programs at the elementary, middle, and high school levels throughout the United States and also some internationally.

The mission of the nationally recognized SWAT concept is to promote student leadership training, address technology competencies, provide outreach to the community through parent involvement, corporate support, and student community service, and to encourage collaboration among student SWAT Teams nationally.

A SWAT Team is directed by a motivated teacher and is comprised of any number of students who wish to form a structured group to advance the technology program at their school. The students advance their level of technical skills while also assisting other students, teachers and the community with computer skills. Students are required to fill out a job application and interview to be on the SWAT Team. National and State Technology Competencies are addressed as the foundation of the SWAT Team's Mission. The SWAT Team may consist of specialized "Task Force Teams" formed to address the job force objectives and the technology goals at any school.

Some suggested SWAT Task Force Teams are:

Web Site Masters
Teacher Internet Researchers
Computer Buddies
Media Crew
Mobile Unit/Community Service
Central Unit/Computer Maintenance

SWAT objectives and activities align with NETS
National Education Technology Standards for Students
See overview

Please take time to peruse the SWAT site and consider using the SWAT Resources to begin your program.

 

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 Below are a few examples of how schools are using the SWAT concept:

Forest Park's SWAT program becomes the 'best practice' model for the State of Virginia!

http://www.wvonline.com/bms/ swat .htm

( Bridgeport Middle, WV)

http://www.person.k12.nc.us /phs/ SWAT .html

( North Carolina )

http://www.ecpps.k12.nc.us/cybercampus/swatcamp.htm

(Distance Education, NC)

http://www.rockhill.k12.sc.us/teachers/ides/croueche/students_working_to_advance _tech.htm  

 

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SWAT CD Copyright submitted to the Library of Congress, December 26th, 2001

Articles of Incorporation filed in North Carolina on September 13th, 2001