National Coalition for Science in Afterschool Conference Proposal

科学的劳伦斯大厅将主办一个后续会议，2004年1月会议的全国联盟科学在课后。 第二次会议的目标是进一步推动新兴的全国课外科学联盟，引入更多的组织和观点，将下一步的愿景纳入行动计划，建立基础设施，研究议程和框架，宣传活动和可持续发展计划，其中包括参与者之间的进一步网络联系。 这次会议将有助于加强全国百分之十以上的青少年的科学教育，这些青少年目前参加课外活动，其中许多人在正规教育系统中得不到很好的服务。 会议将汇集科学教育和课后计划的领导者，以联合收割机结合他们最好的思考方式来分享当前的想法，并创建新的伙伴关系，模型，研究计划和组织结构，以推进他们的工作。会议将允许STEM和课外组织的现任和潜在领导者相互通报，分享最佳实践并形成战略联盟。 除了传统的传播机制（网站、邮件列表服务器、会议报告）外，会议将产生一项行动计划，其中包括将联盟成员扩大到其他组织，并将其信息传播给新的受众，包括那些与残疾学生一起工作的人、社区组织和家长倡导者。 除了劳伦斯大厅，该联盟的领导组织是探索馆，TERC，儿童援助协会，全国课后协会和课后公司。

The Lawrence Hall of Science will host a follow-up conference to the January, 2004 conference of the National Coalition for Science in After-school. The goal of this 2nd conference is to take the emerging National Coalition for Science in After-school further, bringing in additional organizations and points of view, to take the vision the next step into action plans that will establish an infrastructure, a research agenda and framework, an advocacy campaign and a plan for sustainability that will include further networking among participants. The conference will contribute to the enhancement of science education for the more than ten percent of the Nation's youth who currently participate in after-school programs, many of whom are least well served in the formal educational system. The conference will bring together leaders in science education and after-school programs to combine their best thinking about ways to share current ideas and to create new partnerships, models, research initiatives and organizational structures to advance their work. The conference will allow current and potential leaders in STEM and after-school organizations to inform one another, share best practices and form strategic alliances. In addition to traditional dissemination mechanisms (website, listserv, conference report), the conference will result in an action plan that includes extending membership in the Coalition to additional organizations and its messages to new audiences, including those who work with students with disabilities, community organizations and parent advocates. In addition to Lawrence Hall, the lead organizations in the Coalition are the Exploratorium, TERC, the Children's Aid Society, the National Afterschool Association and The After School Corporation.