Graduate Student MotSIG members,

Annually, the Motivation in Education SIG sponsors three events for graduate student members of the SIG---the student travel awards, the Paul Pintrich memorial award, and lunch with a motivation researcher. All three events take place during the annual meeting (first week in May, Denver), but each event requires planning. This announcement serves to invite you to participate in one or all of these events. To help in that effort, information related to each event that you might find interesting and professionally helpful is provided below.


Student Travel Awards

The Motivation in Education SIG (MotSIG) provides financial support for graduate students who present a first-authored presentation as part of the MotSIG program at this year's AERA conference in Denver. If you:

• are a graduate student,
• are a member of the MotSIG*,
• have an accepted presentation (of any kind---paper, poster, etc.) as part of the MotSIG program, and
• are the first-author on that presentation, then you qualify for the MotSIG travel award. While the amount of the award has not been determined as of today, we hope to offer an award of $100 per presenter. Awards will be disbursed during the conference's business meeting.

Paul Pintrich Memorial Awards

In addition to the travel awards, the MotSIG offers the Paul Pintrich Memorial award. For this award, a short list of students receiving the travel awards will be created, based on a review of each student's original AERA proposal and the reviews received related to that proposal. Once the short list has been determined, finalists will then have their proposals and reviews read by an ad hoc committee of senior SIG members. This committee will elect the winner of the Paul Pintrich Memorial award.

So, to win a travel award and to become eligible for consideration for the Paul Pintrich Memorial award, please send the following materials electronically to Johnmarshall Reeve (reeve@korea.ac.kr):

• A blinded copy of your original AERA proposal.
• Copies of all the reviews you received for your proposal.

Due Date: February 22, 2010 (Monday).

In addition to sending these two pieces of information, please consider sending a third piece of information related to the "Lunch with a Motivation Researcher", as described next.


Lunch with a Motivation Researcher

All graduate student members of the SIG (regardless of your status on the 2010 SIG program) are invited to have lunch (in a small group setting) with an accomplished motivation researcher during the 2010 program in Denver. More information on this very popular event will be provided in a future announcement, but for now we would like to invite you to nominate a prominent motivation researcher (and SIG member---see the SIG membership directory on our website--http://www.motivationsig.org) to serve as a luncheon host. You many nominate up to 3 different names. From your nominations, I will assemble a list of potential hosts, invite 6 to 8 of them to serve as hosts, and send a follow-up email with the name of the hosts along with the time, date, and location of the lunch. At that time you will be asked to sign-up for one of the luncheons. Because this event takes rather extensive planning, the follow-up email will be sent around the middle of March.

* To join the MotSIG, you must first be a member of AERA. For more membership information, see our website at www.motivationsig.net/members/html.

Thank you and see you in Denver,
Johnmarshall Reeve (reeve@korea.ac.kr)

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