UCET Awards - Menu

• UCET 2010 Technology Educator of the Year
• UCET 2010 Technology Leader of the Year
• UCET 2010 Jack Erickson Excellence in Technology Service Award

Previous Years

• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006

UCET 2010 Technology Educator of the Year - Pat Lambrose

Pat is a technology facilitator for Salt Lake City District. As such, she works with teachers in their classrooms to help them become technology proficient educators. Pat works in all phases of technology implementation and integration, but has made the diffusion and infusion of GIS software her mission for the past few years.

Very early on, Pat recognized the value and utility of GIS in the classroom and has made that one of her missions. She has worked to obtain grants and discounts so that at present, every student and teacher computer can have ArcGIS software installed at no cost to the school or district.

Pat recently developed and implemented the Entrada GIS field camp for teachers. (the project is now called Rio Mesa).  In October 2009, 15 teachers and teacher-trainers spent three days near Moab for an intensive, hands-on GIS field experience. Pat took care of all the details--food, agenda, obtained grants to provide GPS units for the participants, arranged for faculty of U of U and SLCC to provide training.

Pat spends a large amount of time "off the clock" working to get GIS into schools. She has created several working groups bringing school technology leaders and GIS leaders from government and industry together to push a GIS curriculum at the state level including CTE and Concurrent enrollment. This is still being debated and considered by USOE, but Pat's determination will help see it through. She has the strong skill of identifying key participants for her projects, then convincing them to join her team.

Pat Lambrose is truly an outstanding educator and technologist.

Congratulations to Pat Lambrose, as the recipient of the 2010 UCET Outstanding Technology Educator of the Year.

UCET 2010 Technology Leader of the Year - Victoria Rasmussen

Victoria Rasmussen is one of the key reasons why UEN Professional Development is so successful.  She keeps the department organized and efficient, ensuring that schools and teachers get the technology trainings they want.  UEN handles over 700 training sessions and meet with over 12,000 participants last year.

During Victoria’s tenure at UEN, she has "green-lighted" all of the major initiatives from UEN Professional Development.  She is very willing to "push the envelope" when it comes to demonstrating new technologies and the impact they can have on teaching and learning.  A prime example of this is the popular “Faculty Lounge”.
UEN has taken the lead in online courses for credit.  Victoria helped pioneer a licensing agreement with LearnKey to provide online training on the Microsoft Office tools to teachers across Utah.  Also, UEN’s online course offerings have grown annually to where they provide over 50 different online courses for credit.

Victoria has been actively involved in numerous committees throughout the state.  She has taken an active leadership role in the iTEAM grant, which trained teachers to incorporate technology in mathematics instruction.  She also served on the UAACCE board of directors and has been involved with UEN's Steering Committee for several years.

Victoria respects and values her staff.  She goes to great lengths to meet the needs of each trainer and works with their schedules to ensure work assignments are divided equally and fairly.  She provides the staff a lot of creative room to develop new projects and teach in innovative ways. 

Congratulations to Victoria Rasmussen, as the recipient of the 2010 UCET Outstanding Technology Leader of the Year.

UCET 2010 Jack Erickson Excellence in Technology Service Award - BJ Peterson

BJ Peterson has done an outstanding job at Central Utah Educational Services (CUES) for many years.  He tirelessly strives to better serve each of the 7 districts in his region.  With BJ, it is a ‘one stop’ shop.  If he cannot solve the problem at hand, which isn't often, he will find out how to solve it and follow-up on it in short order.  He is someone you can leave a task with and not have to worry about how or when it is going to be completed.

BJ has extensive knowledge in all technical areas.  He is familiar with the OSI model and can engineer, deploy, and maintain the majority of Cisco and HP switches/routers.  He is also at the top of the pack in his knowledge of Apple hardware/software support.

BJ is constantly applying his skills throughout the region and is open to suggestions and concerns.  He takes it upon himself both professionally and personally to better himself through self-study and any technical training that applies to the job.
BJ has a great attitude when it comes to sharing his expertise.  He has the attitude of "The more I can share, the more the districts can be self-reliant".

BJ is a role model in his job at CUES.  Congratulations to BJ Peterson as the recipient of the 2010 Jack Erickson Excellence in Technology Services Award.