Science as Performance: A Proactive Strategy to Communicate and Educate through Theater, Music and Dance

该项目的主要目标是通过创新方法向公众介绍多学科科学，并通过鼓励科学素养并引导越来越多的人参与科学事业的方法向初中以上年龄的年轻人（包括少数民族学生和女孩）介绍科学。实现这一目标的创新媒介是科学和表演艺术的结合，作为通过艺术呈现科学的一种方式。一个关键因素是利用目前科学和艺术部门的教师和工作人员的相当多的技能和才能，并利用公共表演和会议空间的基础设施在学院和大学，以及校外设施和人才在当地环境。该项目还将表演艺术的创造力与科学的项目管理工具结合起来，以确保实现目标的进展是可以理解和衡量的。

The primary objective of this project is to bring multi-disciplinary science to the general public through innovative methods, and to introduce young people from junior high school age and older - including minority students and girls - to science via methods that will encourage scientific literacy and lead increasing numbers of them into scientific endeavors. The innovative medium used to accomplish this objective is a combination of science and the performing arts, as a way of presenting science through the arts. A key ingredient is to make use of the considerable skills and talents of faculty and staff presently in science and the arts departments, and also utilizes the infrastructure of public performance and meeting spaces at colleges and universities, as well as the off-campus facilities and talent within their local environments. This allows this project to become national in scope.This project also brings together the creativity of the performing arts with the project management tools of science, in order to insure that progress towards the goals are understandable as well as measurable.