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Stacey Silva is a writer, educator, presenter and pioneer in the promotion of the Internet to educators and students alike. He wrote the original proposal for the Institute of Computer Technology which was a computer training institute founded for educators by the California Legislature in 1983 based out of Sunnyvale, CA. As ICT's Coordinator of Teacher Training, he designed a training model which led to the funding of the largest private initiative for public education which is currently known as Intel's Teach to the Future. This "train the trainer" model for the Intel Foundation, originally known as the ACE Project (Applying Computers in Education) was launched in 1998. Intel now claims that they have trained over 4 million educators from this initiative world wide. This project eventually became known as Intel's "Teach to the Future" and is currently managed by Intel's Global Education Division.

Stacey Silva graduated from Stanford University with an M.A. in Education in 1993 and immediately set upon the task of introducing the Internet to educators which was relatively unknown to teachers at the time. In 1995, during the advent of the World Wide Web, and the funding of the San Jose Education Network, Stacey Silva and a few of his colleagues took training at Sun Microsystems of San Jose to begin the mission of 1) getting schools wired to the Net and 2)demonstrating the powerful relevancy and importance of bringing the Internet into the classroom.

Stacey Silva parlayed his journalistic skills developed at UCSB's The Daily Nexus, into writing curriculum for educators that would be both intuitive and relevant. This curriculum was the centerpiece in Intel's ACE Project (Teach to the Future) for public schools and is still the main model for its current deployment. Stacey Silva has also been a featured presenter at numerous education conferences including the National Education Computing Conference (1998, 2000).

Stacey also wrote the teacher's guide and assisted in the end user interface development for NEC's Leonardo's Multimedia Toolbox which won the SIIA's Codie Award for Education Instructional Management Tool - Best Product (2000).