We are looking
for advocates of science education in the state of Washington for this
years Science Champions: Science Education Advocate Awards. Do you know
an exceptional individual, organization or project team that has put
forth extraordinary efforts over and beyond their job description
towards promoting, advocating, and/or influencing others to act in
support of science education by:
- promoting
the importance of science education among the general public
and/or the education system,
- seeking
out and engaging new and diverse participants and/or investors in
science education,
- enabling
and influencing others to act in the interests of science
education and/or its reform, and
- making
enhancements to science education by efforts at local, regional
and/or state level in Washington.
If you know of
an individual, organization or project team that encompasses any
one of these characteristics there are two ways you can help
nominate them.
- You can be a lead nominator (forms are
available here) or
- Send the name of the individual,
organization or project team you think should be
nominated with a potential lead nominator's contact information
to:
Ginny
Vacchiery
Washington State LASER Administrative Specialist
Pacific Science Center
(206) 443-2922
gvacchiery@pacsci.org
The
nomination submission deadline is Tuesday, January 24th, 2012.
Detailed information about the award, past recipients, the nomination
process, and the nomination forms can be found on the Washington State
LASER website.
Please feel free to forward this e-mail to potential applicants.
The Science
Champions: Science Education Advocates Awards is facilitated by
Washington State LASER, with funding from The Boeing Company and
Battelle. This award is intended to raise public awareness of the
importance of science education and the many diverse efforts to promote
it in our state.
