Happy New Year 

Volunteer Outreach Team!

 

January 6, 2012

 

Volunteer Outreach Team Meeting Scheduled 

Sunday, January 15th!  SIGN UP Now!

We look forward to seeing you all at the Volunteer Meeting next Sunday!  We will have special guest, Festival Co-Director Lauren Raymond, attend our meeting.   We will discuss outreach and Volunteer Needs for the Festival. Please bring friends and future volunteers. 

 

New and returning Volunteers - Remember to SIGN UP for the next Volunteer Outreach Team meeting January 15, 2012. 

Volunteer Meeting

 

We look forward to seeing you on 

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

2:00-4:00PM

 

at

 

K&L Gates, 1601 K Street Northwest, 

Washington, DC 20006

  

New Volunteers register here: http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2012festival/volunteer/volunteer-outreach-team


Returning Volunteers register here: http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2012festival/volunteer/volunteer-outreach-team-meetings

 

Special THANK YOU to our 

Fabulous Volunteer Outreach Team Coordinators

Please make sure to join me and thank our Volunteer Outreach Coordinators for the amazing job they are doing! Come to the Volunteer Meeting January 15th, 2012 to meet your local coordinator!

 

ALL   Library Outreach    Barbara Roberts

ALL   Military Outreach    Joyce Matthews

DC    DCPS    Beatrice Thompson
DC    Private Schools    Verda Peterkin
MD    Anne Arundel County Public Schools    Jack Andraka

MD    Baltimore County Public Schools    Shirley Villagray

MD    Charles County Public Schools    Kimberly Smith 

MD    Caroll County Public Schools    Nancy McCrickard 
MD    Howard County Public Schools    Kevin Baker
MD    Howard County Public Schools    Leslie Sands
MD    Montgomery County Public Schools    Kathryn Spivey
MD    Montgomery County Public Schools    Rosanna Thomas
MD    Prince George's County Public Schools    Felicia Reed
MD    Prince George's County Public Schools    Velarie Harvell
MD    Prince George's County Public Schools    Laura Carriere
MD    St. Mary's County Public Schools    Corey Redmond 

MD    Catholic Schools    Tom Brett

VA    Arlington County    Teresa Liao
VA    Arlington County    Louisa Marinaccio

VA    Fairfax County    Patrick Truver
VA    Loudoun County    Veronica Breza
VA    Prince William County    Carol Matheny
VA    King George County    Elody Shojinaga

 

Key Book Fair Volunteers Needed!

 

The Book Fair is looking for Key Volunteers to help out with our 36 Featured Authors. Key roles will be:  

 

Book Fair Announcer, Stage Coordinator, Audience Manager, Author Escort, Signing Stage Coordinator, Magic School Bus Coordinator, Author Evening Audience Manager, and Book Fair Promotions

 

Complete this application if you would like to be a Key Book Fair Volunteer.

https://scholarnexus.wufoo.com/build/book-fair-volunteer-key-positions/

 

For more information about Book Fair Volunteer opportunities, contact Laura (bluebonnetpath@gmail.com)
 

Book Fair Featured Authors Announced 

Volunteers Needed

 Book Fair Logo

The USA Science & Engineering Festival Book Fair is proud to announce an extraordinary line-up of Featured Authors to appear at the Finale Expo April 28-29, 2012. Note the addition of Susan Beth Pfeffer and Loree Griffin Burns!

 

Family Science

Seymour Simon - Butterflies
Bruce Degen - Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge
Jeffrey Bennett - The Wizard Who Saved the World
Dawn Cusick - Cool Animal Names
Rebecca Klemm - NumbersAlive! Books for Young Travelers  

Jenny Offill- 11 Experiments That Failed
Dia Michels - If My Mom Were a Platypus
Loree Griffin Burns - Citizen Scientists

 

Teen Fiction
Pendred Noyce - Lost in Lexicon
Homer Hickam - Crater
Benedict Carey - Poison Most Vial
Julie Chibbaro - Deadly

Susan Beth Pfeffer - This World We Live In

 

Teen Non-Fiction
Joy Hakim - Stories of Science
Theodore Gray - The Elements Vault - Science Ink

Carl Zimmer - Science Ink 

Steve Wolf - The Secret Science Behind Movie Stunts & Special Effects
Celeste Baine - Amazing Engineering Careers
Fred Bortz - Meltdown! The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and our Energy Future
Sean Connolly - Book of Perfectly Perilous Math

 

High School - Stories

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa - Becoming Dr. Q

Robin Cook - Cure   

Walter Lewin - For the Love of Physics

Thea Cooper - Breakthrough

Robert P. Crease - World in Balance

Holly Tucker - Blood Work

Joel Achenbach - A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea

 

High School - Discoveries
Lisa Randall - Knocking on Heaven's Door

Sheril Kirshenbaum - The Science of Kissing  

Joe Palca - Annoying
Curt Stager - Deep Future

Hands-On Science
Ken Denmead - The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists
William Gurstelle - Practical Pyromanica
Ed Sobey - Unscrewed
Allen Kurzweil - Potato Chip Science
Dustyn Roberts - Making Things Move  
  

 

Visit us online at

http://www.usasciencefestival.org/

 

 

Science Spark is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization responsible for creating the USA Science & Engineering Festival and several regional Festivals including the San Diego Science & Engineering Festival, Bay Area Science & Engineering Festival, Boston Science & Engineering Festival, Los Angeles Science & Engineering Festival, Chicago Science & Engineering Festival, Houston Science & Engineering Festival, Miami Science & Engineering Festival and the Philadelphia Science & Engineering Festival.