Volunteer Outreach Team News

 

February 9, 2012

 

Volunteer Outreach Team Meeting  

Sunday, February 12th!  SIGN UP Now!

We look forward to seeing you all at the Volunteer Meeting on Sunday!  We had a fantastic meeting in January (see picture) and know February will be even better. We have several exciting announcements about our upcoming programs.  Please bring friends and future volunteers. 

 

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

Jan Volunteer meeting

 

We look forward to seeing you on 

Sunday, February 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 February 12th, 2012 to meet your local coordinator! Welcome to our new coordinators!

 

ALL   Library Outreach    Barbara Roberts

ALL   Military Outreach    Joyce Matthews

ALL   Student Teachers    Usha Rajdev

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    Harford County Public Schools    Ann Bizzano 
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    Alexandria Public Schools    Adey Fentaw

VA    Fairfax County    Patrick Truver

VA    Fairfax County    Meron Belayneh

VA    Loudoun County   Veronica Breza

VA    Prince William County    Carol Matheny

VA    King George County    Elody Shojinaga

 

 

Public Speaking for the Festival 

Resources & Let US Know

 

Let us know if you've given any talks about the Festival in this easy to use form. Please fill it out if you have done any talks in the past year. This is an easy way for us to docment your outstanding work.

https://scholarnexus.wufoo.com/forms/volunteer-outreach-events/ 

 

VOLUNTEER Powerpoint available online on our new Volunteer Resources Page

http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2012festival/volunteer/volunteer-resources.

 

Please check the Volunteer Resource page frequently for updates.  We will be announcing all Festival volunteer positions soon.

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, 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/forms/book-fair-volunteer-key-positions/

 

For more information about Book Fair Volunteer opportunities, contact Laura (bluebonnetpath@gmail.com)
 
Volunteers will be contacted shortly about their assignments.  

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.