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Washington State Leadership and Assistance for Science
Education Reform (LASER), CityClub, and The Boeing Company
are pleased to invite you to lunch and a forum to discuss
the social responsibility of science and science education.
What role/responsibility do scientific organizations and
scientists have to engage the public in dialogues to better
understand current scientific research and it implications
for society? What role/responsibility do scientific
organizations and scientists have in shaping science and
math education? Bring your own questions to pose to our
panel of experts. Panel members are the 2009 awardees of the
Science Champions: Science Education Advocate Award.
The Science Champions: Science Education Advocate awards go
to five individuals, organizations, and project teams who
exhibited outstanding advocacy for science education in the
state of Washington by promoting the importance of science
education among the general public and/or the education
system.
The 2008-2009 recipients are:
Kim M. Fowler
Senior Research Engineer, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (PNNL)
Edmund O.
Schweitzer, III Ph.D.
President, Schweitzer
Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
Northwest Association for Biomedical
Research (NWABR)
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI)
Spokane Youth Environmental Conference
Project Team
The five awardees will receive $5,000 each to be awarded
to the not-for-profit organization or public education
entity of their choice for use in its efforts on behalf
of science education. The monetary reward as well as
funding for the awards process was generously provided
by the Boeing Company.
To learn more about the awardees please visit:
We hope that you will be able to join us and
congratulate our 2008-2009 Science Champions: Science
Education Advocate Award winners.
Sincerely,
Dennis Schatz, Pacific Science Center
Jeff Estes, Battelle
Co-Directors of Washington State LASER
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