NRDP-Education Partnerships
Here are some of the successful partnerships that State Councils have had with the Department of Education. For more information,
please contact Rick Wetherill
in the Office of Community Development.
The South Dakota Science and Technology Council was launched in December 2000, with the support of the South Dakota Rural Development Council (SDRDC). Work on this new entity began in 1997, with a National Science Foundation grant to the University of South Dakota. At that time, SDRDC was asked to assemble a strong partnership to support development of the proposed council—a challenge in a largely rural, geographically challenged state. SDRDC's challenge was to develop a relationship that involves working across agency and government boundaries, to foster more economic development linkages between science work done on the state's campuses and economic development tools, and to access other federal science and technology resources, particularly those usually not available in South Dakota. In working to create the Science and Technology Council, SDRDC identified partners that would be interested in a coordinated math, science, and technology effort for South Dakota and then convened the kick-off meeting to launch this collaborative effort. Joining NSF as federal partners are NIST, USDA, NASA, and U.S. Departments of Commerce and Education.
