THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
BOARD ON SCIENCE EDUCATION
NASA PRE-COLLEGE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
FIRST COMMITTEE MEETING
ROOM 204
500 5TH STREET, NW
WASHINGTON, DC
JANUARY 18-19, 2007
January 18, 2007
OPEN SESSIONS
10:40 a.m.	Welcome
		Helen Quinn, Committee Chair, Professor of Physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
10:45 a.m.	Panel Discussion: Pre-College Education Activities in the NASA Science Mission
	Jim Manning, Head, Office of Public Outreach, Space Telescope Science Presentation
	Isabel Hawkins, Research Astronomer and Director, UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, Center for Science Education Presentation
	Robert Gabrys, Chief Education Officer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Edna DeVore, Director of Education and Public Outreach, SETI Institute Presentation
	Each panelist will address the following three questions: What do you see as the 2-3 biggest strengths of your program(s) in pre-college education? What have been and continue to be the 2-3 biggest challenges? What lessons for the involvement of NASA in pre-college education do you think you have learned? What evidence was used to derive these lessons learned?
11:25a.m.	Committee Questions and Discussion
	Questions for discussion What is the relationship of your program to other pre-college programs in NASA? What, if any, interaction occurs between your program and the NASA Office of Education? In what way(s) were you involved in the development of NASA’s strategic plan in education? How does the strategic plan impact your work? Do you do evaluation (formative or summative) of your program? Describe these evaluation efforts and how you use the information from them.
	OPEN SESSION
1:30 p.m.	Panel Discussion: Pre-College Education Activities in Other Science Agencies
	Marlene Kaplan, Deputy Director of Education, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Presentation
	Bruce Fuchs, Director, Office of Science Education, National Institute of Health
	Bill Valdez, Acting Director of Office of Workforce Development,  and Director of Planning and Analysis, U.S. Department of Energy Presentation
	Jill Karsten, Program Director for Diversity and Education, National Science Foundation Geosciences Presentation
	Each panelist will address the following three questions: What are the goals or targeted impacts of your education programs? What do you see as the 2-3 biggest strengths of your program in pre-college education? What have been and continue to be the 2-3 biggest challenges? What lessons for the involvement of science agencies in pre-college education do you think you have learned?
2:10 p.m.	Committee Questions and Discussion
	Questions for discussion To what extent are pre-college education activities explicitly mandated as a mission of your agency? How are your pre-college education activities funded? What is the internal management structure and oversight of these programs? How do you evaluate the impact of your programs?
3:15 p.m.	Break
JANUARY 19, 2007
OPEN SESSIONS
11:00 a.m.	Overview of AESP
	Bill Williams, Program Manager, NASA Presentation
11:20 a.m.	Evaluation of AESP
	Ken McKinley, Independent Evaluator Presentation
11:40 a.m.	Committee Questions and Discussion
OPEN SESSIONS
1:15 p.m.	In-depth Look at Flights Projects Edward Pritchard Presentation
2:00 p.m.	In-depth Look at SEMAA Dovie Lacy, Program Manager, NASA Presentation1 Presentation2
2:20 p.m.	Committee Questions and Discussion
3:00 p.m.	Break