Last week I had the opportunity to travel to New Jersey to accept an award that GM won for its work with none other than…Teach Green!

The New Jersey Technology Education Association (NJTEA) presented the award to GM Thursday night at an award ceremony with educators from all over New Jersey. Each year, the organization awards an individual, institution and/or government official who “made a notable impact through their virtuous support for students and/or educators in technology education…and have a proven track record of advocating the benefits of technological literacy for all students in New Jersey schools.” This year GM won the Impact Award for its work with Teach Green! Ron Grosinger, a fellow Teach Green blogger was also presented with the 2010 Innovative Technology Educator award–we were so proud!

It was a lot of fun to meet some of our bloggers in person and recruit new ones . I spent the next day attending some of the workshops and hanging out with the teachers. I met some really great people who are doing some of the most innovative things in the classroom–really makes me want to be a student again. The award itself is beautiful and was hand carved by one of the teachers. Winning the award was a true honor, but even more importantly to me, to us at GM Education, are the awesome relationships that have come out of this project.

I’d like to give a special thanks to fellow Teach Green blogger Chris Anderson for all the amazing work he does (in the classroom and on the blog) and for inviting GM out there in the first place!