HR: 15:10h
AN: ED33C-07    [Abstracts]
TI: Making An Impact With A Shoestring Through Partnerships
AU: * Mendez, B J
EM: bmendez@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, 8 Gauss Way University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450 United States
AB: Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) programs for most science investigations are extremely small parts of already small grants. However, the effective use of partnerships and leveraging multiple programs together can allow E/PO programs on a shoestring budget to make a significant impact. We will present how we have used partnerships and multiple E/PO programs to provide the best way to use the resources of smaller projects. Some of the partnerships we will highlight include: NASA E/PO programs such as STEREO-IMPACT and RHESSI; NASA OSS Education Forums; The Lawrence Hall of Science GEMS network; volunteer scientist involvement; and others. We will also discuss the importance of evaluation in determining the impact of the programs as well as the difficulties involved in finding good partnerships.
UR: http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segway
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0830 Teacher training
DE: 0840 Evaluation and assessment
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting