Meetings
ANNUAL MEETING FOR GK-12 PROJECT TEAMS
March 16-18, 2012
Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 737-1234
GK-12 team members are invited to the 2012 annual meeting to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, DC. Read on for more information.
Reserving Hotel Rooms
The rate for a single or double room with complimentary Internet service is $194 plus tax. Make room reservations online or call 1-888-421-1442 and mention you’re attending the “NSF GK-12 Meeting. The deadline is February 16, 2012.
Meeting Registration
Register for the meeting using our secure site. The registration fee is $180 per person. The deadline is March 5, 2012. If you need to cancel your registration, please do so by March 9, 2012, and your credit card will be automatically refunded. Cancellations after that date must be made in writing to Betty Calinger at bcalinge@aaas.org by March 26, 2012 to receive reimbursement.
Agenda
A draft agenda is now available. Please note that there will be two pre-conference workshops at the March meeting. Rick Tankersley, Florida Institute of Technology, will offer a one and one-half day Presentation Bootcamp and Pat Marsteller will offer a seminar for graduate students on Getting the Mentoring You Need. Pat offers this seminar to graduate students at Emory University.
Project Poster Session at the Hyatt Regency Hotel
This year’s meeting will probably be the last time all projects will come together to share information. For this reason, NSF and AAAS have decided that the project poster session should showcase the unique aspect(s) of GK-12 efforts. Consider these questions as you prepare your abstract/poster:
(1) What is your project doing that can be considered: one of a kind, exclusive, exceptional, distinctive?
(2) If you could brand some feature, activity, process, strategy, etc. of your project, what would it be?
(3) What do you want people to remember about your project?
(4) If someone was seeking expert advice on a particular topic/area, why would they contact you? Define the area and why you are an expert.
Submit your project’s abstract. The submission deadline is February 20.
Please note that the project poster abstracts are not reviewed by a committee. All projects can submit a poster, but each project will have only one 4′ h x 8′ w poster board on which to display information.
Graduate Fellows STEM Research Poster Session at NSF
GK12 Fellows are invited to submit abstracts about their STEM research for presentation on Friday afternoon, March 16, in the Atrium at the National Science Foundation. 25 to 30 Fellows will be chosen to present by a committee of program staff from NSF and AAAS. To be considered, Fellows must describe their STEM research as well as how they integrate aspects of it into K-12 classrooms, schools, or out-of-school settings. The deadline for submitting research poster abstracts is January 30, 2012. The selections will be announced on or before February 13, 2012.
Submit your STEM research abstract.
Present a Workshop at the GK-12 Meeting
Projects are invited to submit proposals for workshops to be presented on Saturday and Sunday, March 17-18, 2011. Workshops should focus on activities that were vital to the success of your project and that represent “promising practices.” Could these “winning” strategies be adapted by other GK-12 projects as well as other efforts that seek to engage graduate students in schools and K-12 students in STEM? The target areas listed in the application are suggestive only. If you have an idea other than those shown, please propose it. The deadline for submitting workshop proposals is January 30, 2012 with notification on or before February 6, 2012.
Submit your workshop proposal.
Please direct any questions to bcalinge@aaas.org.
Archive of Past Meetings / Events
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