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From: "Shawn Otto - ScienceDebate.Org team" <[email protected]
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Date: 2009-10-19 07:25:04 -0700
Subject: USA Science Festival
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Dear Paul:
We would like to draw your attention to a unique opportunity for
friends of Science Debate to help elevate science and engineering in
our national dialogue: the Inaugural USA Science & Engineering
Festival.
This is to be the largest celebration of science and engineering in
the United States, and will be held in Washington D.C. in the Fall
of 2010. We just got off the phone with the festival organizer,
Larry Bock, who we have been fans of for some time. Larry created
the amazing San Diego Science Festival last year, which drew over
200,000 people, so he's our kind of guy! What we like about this
concept and why we are supporting it is it's a new way to elevate
science populism in the U.S. Check out this amazing 2-minute video
of the San Diego Science Festival at http://www.scivee.tv/node/
12528 We encourage you to contact Larry to discuss how you and your
employer or organization can get involved - even if you don't work
for a science or engineering organization. Here is some background
info:
The Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival will be the
country’s first national science festival. It will be a multi-
cultural, multi-generational, multi-disciplinary celebration of
science and enginering in the United States. The culmination of the
Festival will be an Expo on the Washington D.C. Mall that we hope
will attract over 1 million people, and will give over 500 science
organizations from all over the United States the opportunity to
present a hands-on, fun science activity to inspire the next
generation of scientists and engineers.
Participating science organizations are asked to create an
engaging, hands-on activity to be presented in a 10x10 foot Festival
tent during the Expo. The goal of these exhibits is to lower the
barriers to science and engineering and make them as cool and
accessible and inspiring as possible. Exhibitors should try to
create the same feeling that inspires you - only even better.
The USA Science & Engineering Festival is modeled after the very
popular and successful science festivals that take place
internationally in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, India, Japan
and Australia. These festivals are typically 7 to 14-day events,
draw between 100,000-1,000,000 people and celebrate all aspects of
science and engineering through inspiring lectures, hands-on
activities and exhibits, contests, theatre, comedy, poetry, art and
music – all celebrating science and engineering.
The USA Science & Engineering Festival will celebrate science and
engineering in general but will also have special programs in areas
such as clean technology, alternative energy, green chemistry, bio-
mimicry, sustainability, ecology and conservation.
The Festival Organizers are inviting science enthusiasts to
participate by creating a fun, hands-on educational outreach
activity or performance during the Expo. There is no cost to
participate except the time, energy and creativity to assemble and
staff the booth (provided you contact us prior to October 30th, 2009).
This will be a unique opportunity for your organization to show off
their science and engineering enthusiasm side by side with a long
list of national universities, research institutes and colleges,
high technology and life science companies, government agencies,
professional science societies, informal science outreach
organizations and college student groups.
If you are interested in being involved with what may just become
the Woodstock of Science & Engineering, contact Larry here:
Larry Bock
[email protected]
760-846-3473
http://www.usasciencefestival.org/
Best,
-Shawn Otto and the team at ScienceDebate.Org
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