ASC NSW branch – November get-together
MAKING SCIENCE AS PERVASIVE AS SPORTS IN TODAY’S SOCIETY
Dennis Schatz, Pacific Science Centre, Seattle, Washington State, USA
Tuesday 30TH NOV, 6.30 – 8 PM Clarendon Hotel – Upstairs 156 Devonshire St, Surry Hills ( 5 minutes walk from Central Railway ) RSVP: ascnsw@gmail.com
Light catering provided Free drink for ASC members Bar menu and drinks available.
Description: If we want a STEM literate public, then we need to focus on more than what happens in primary and secondary education where people spend only 3% of their lives. This means making STEM a lifelong, life-wide and life-deep activity just like sports. Come hear Dennis Schatz, Senior Vice President at Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington, describe his institution’s activities that seek to attain this dream.
Some of Dennis’s interests include:
* Co-directing Washington State LASER (Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform), Washington state¹s science education reform effort. More information is at www.WaStateLASER.org http://www.wastatelaser.org/
* Portal to the Public program that works with scientists from universities, government agencies and industries to help them effectively communicate with public audiences. More information is at www.pacsci.org/portal/ http://www.pacsci.org/portal/
* US National Research Council¹s development of Surrounded by Science (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12614). This book and its companion book (Learning Science in Informal Environments — http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12190) provide a theoretical framework for how people learn science in informal settings.
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