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From Here to Technology. How to Fund Hardware, Software, and More. A publication available from the American Association of School Administrators includes tips from school leaders who have stretched existing resources and uncovered new money in little-known places to purchase computer hardware, software, video and telecommunications equipment. Each idea includes a resource you can contact directly. Write for stock #21-00511. Payment must accompnay all orders of $20.00 and under. 1-4 copies, $2.50 each. American Association of School Administrators, Customer Information Center, 1801 North Moore Street, Arlington, VA 22209-9988.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management is offering the Second Edition of Science, Society and America's Nuclear Waste a four-unit resource curriculum. The content and educational challenges of the curricula have been designed to promote and enhance students' higher-order, critical-thinking capabilities; the activities were developed to improve students' skills in mathematics, science, social sciences and technology. Each unit includes a teacher's guide book and student book. Free copies of the curricula may be obtained by calling 1-800-225-6972 or by writing to the OCRWM National Information Center at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Suite 760, Washington, DC 20024.

Engineering: Turning Ideas into Reality is the twelfth annual DuPage Area Engineers Week Program to be held at the Rice Campus of Illinois Institute of Technology, Wheaton, IL. February 22-24, 1996. A community forum is offered to a "mature audience" by reservation only and career information tables, February 24, 12:00-4:00 pm.

Adler Holiday Show Searching for the "Star of Bethlemen." The Adler Planetarium's annual holiday sky show takes visitors back allowing them to see for themselves what kind of celestial events were happening two thousand years ago. The sky show will run daily from November 24 through January 1, 1996.

Optics Discovery Kit, $19.95 plus shipping includes materials (lenses, filters, a hologram, optical fiber, diffraction grating, etc.) for various simple experiments with optics and an instruction booklet. Multi-kit classroom packages are also available. Order from: Optical Society of America, Kit Orders, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036. Telephone: 202-416-1960 and career information tables, February 24, 12:00-4:00 pm.