Dear San Diego Educator,
Don’t miss out on an exciting program as part of the upcoming San Diego Science Festival!
San Diego’s 50 top scientists, the NIFTY FIFTY, have volunteered to personally visit ONE school each next spring with an exciting science presentation guaranteed to stimulate your students as part of the new San Diego Science Festival. These 50 come from all areas and include famous cancer researchers, astrophysicists,oceanographers, seismic engineers, bio-medical researchers, vulcanologists, bioengineers, nanotechnologists,aeronautical engineers, and molecular biologists.
With so many middle & high schools in SD and so few NIFTY FIFTY members, the sooner your campus makes its reservation . . . the better your chance of being included.
WHAT TO DO NEXT! If you want a NIFTY FIFTY scientist to visit with your students and get them really excited about science, schedule NOW. We understand it is early to project an exact date so we ask you only to identify a specific week during March, 2009 for your school’s NIFTY FIFTY scientist visit.
Applications will be accepted Tuesday, July 29th thru September 15th at http://www.sdsciencefestival.com/htmls/2009festival/nifty.htm, the new San Diego Science Festival Web site, where you will find a complete listing and photos of the NIFTY FIFTY and can make tentative choices concerning desirable individuals and topics. (Click on each photo for a biography.)
SELECTION CRITERIA: Schools will be selected based on the following criteria
- Applications submitted before September 15th
- School’s plan for student selection, including projected # of students and teachers who will be involved
- Plan to prepare students for visit & welcome your scientist
CONDITIONS: Due to the limited number of possible visits, we need to ensure each is as productive as possible for the students, teachers, and Nifty Fifty scientist. The following conditions must be met by each participating school:
* One science teacher to be designated as the point-of-contact to coordinate with the San Diego Science Festival team;
* The site principal will be present to greet and introduce the scientist;
* At least 100 interested students will participate;
* The school will design a plan concerning how to best prepare students for their scientist visitor (by October 15, 2008);
* The school will identify a final visit date and time (by October 15, 2008).
We greatly appreciate your time and interest in this important matter. Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Babendure, Ph.D
BioBridge Director
Assistant Professor, UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy
9500 Gilman Drive
Student Center Building B
La Jolla, CA 92093-0370
858-334-5606
jbabendure@ucsd.edu
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