Newsletter No. 4 - November 2, 2009  |
Festival Dates Announced: Expo on the Mall:
10/10/10 - 10/24/10 10/23 & 10/24
Yes, the Festival will kick off on 10/10/10 and, after two weeks of events throughout the greater Washington D.C. area, will culminate in two full days of discovery and exploration on the National Mall.
We will be right in front of the Capitol, between the Capitol Reflecting Pond and 7th Street, and we hope to be able to add the West Lawn to accommodate more exhibitors.
***ATTENTION EXHIBITORS - READ THIS***
If you have already signed up to exhibit, you will be surprised (and hopefully delighted) to hear that the Expo is now a two-day event! Due to an overwhelming number of requests from our exhibitors and partners, we have decided that two days is the way to go: more time to explore, more time to inspire, more people to reach, more bang for you buck!
Since you are already creating the exhibit, we wanted to give you more time to share it with the public. Set up will take place on Thursday the 21st,
Friday the 22nd, or the morning of Saturday the 23rd. And tear-down will be the evening of Sunday
the 24th or morning of Monday the 25th (depending on the complexity of your
exhibit set-up). We will be in touch with you soon to explain logistics.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact
Larry Bock at biobock@mac.com or
Ruth Kiefer at rkiefer@mindspring.com
If you have not yet signed up, contact us now!
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Visit our brand-new Website
-Find out who is exhibiting
-Participate in our Jingle Contest
-Learn about our Sponsors and Partners
-Find out what you can do to host a Satellite Event in your community!
If you find any errors or broken links, please let us know by emailing
Ruth Kiefer at rkiefer@mindspring.com.
If you are an Exhibitor, please check out your listing on our new website.
If you find any errors, please let us know. If you have already sent in your description, but can't find it on the site - don't panic - we update the site on an ongoing basis and not all exhibitors have been uploaded.
www.usasciencefestival.org
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Host a Satellite Event in your own community!
Help us make the USA Science
& Engineering Festival a truly national experience by hosting a Satellite Event
in your area. Whether you are a student club, school, university, community
organization or company, why not put on your own celebration of science the
same weekend that thousands of people celebrate science on the National Mall?
Our
goal is to spark hundreds of Satellite Events throughout the country, anchored
to the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.
You can make it as small or as
large as you like: it
can be a single activity put on by your student club, a small celebration at
your school or company, a larger event that involves organizations from your
community, or a full- fledged Festival modeled after the USA Science &
Engineering Festival.
You create it, and we
will help you market it by including your information on our website and in our
newsletters. That way, anyone in the nation can check our website to see what's
happening in their backyard the weekend of the USA Science & Engineering
Festival. It's a great way to get your community excited about science and to
put your organization on the national map.
To find out more and to register your Satellite Event, click here.
We are proud to partner with 
to create Satellite Events around the country! |
Thank you to our Advisors who head some of the most inspiring
Science Education Organizations in the country:
Ms. Leslie Collins
Executive
Director, National Engineers Week
Ms. Patrice Legro
Director, Marian Koshland
Science Museum
US National Academy of Sciences
Ms. Elizabeth Marincola
President, Society for Science & the Public
Publisher,
Science News
Ms. Jan Morrison
Executive
Director, TIES -- Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM
Ms. Sheri Potter
Ms. Judy Scotchmoor
Co-Coordinators,
Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS)
Dr. Walter Staveloz
Director -
International Relations, Association of Science-Technology Centers
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Create a Festival Jingle
Grand Prize: $500
(and knowing that your Jingle will be sung by thousands of science enthusiasts)
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Sponsorship Opportunities
Help us create the largest celebration of science and engineering in the World.
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Host an Exhibit
Be there when science takes over the nation's capital! Host a fun, hands-on activity as part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo.
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