Tennessee Scholars Celebrates Global Youth Service Day and Chemist Celebrate Earth Day. We are in urgent need of 50 volunteers for Earth Day in the park on GYSD weekend April 21, 2012. Visit the website www.nashvilleearthday.org and sign up to help out the Rubbish Wranglers by being a recycling volunteer.

Women's History Month honors the contributions of women to American culture and society.  Visit ACS Celebrates the Achievements of Women Scientists in American History for information about Ellen Swallow Richards, Helen Free, Stephanie Kwolek, and a few of many distinguished women scientists whose dedication and determination led to discoveries that have transformed our lives.  Share them with colleagues, teachers, and students doing research projects for Women's History Month.

2012 NGCP National Collaboration Conference: Advancing the Field through Collaboration, Capacity Building, and Equity April 25-27, 2012 in Alexandria, VA. Join the NGCP Collaboration Movement in April 2012.  Back by popular demand, the NGCP National Collaboration Conference 2012: Advancing the Field through Collaboration, Capacity Building, and Equitywill be held in conjunction with the nation's largest celebration of science and engineering. The Conference will begin with a festive evening reception, sponsored by the Motorola Mobility Foundation, for all presenters and participants to begin making connections. In addition to plenary sessions, guided and informal networking opportunities, concurrent sessions will occur throughout, offering the opportunity for interaction with presenters in small group settings with a focus on implementation. Valuable topics include effective STEM messaging for youth, engaging girls of color, utilizing role models, choosing STEM curriculum that's right for you, and program evaluation. National organizations well known for their work in gender equity in STEM, will share expertise and resources, including Techbridge, Girl Scouts of the USA, WGBH Boston, Society of Women Engineers, and the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Girl-serving STEM programs will share strategies for teaching girls to create mobile phone apps, providing environmental science summer research internships, and more.