National Coalition for Science in Afterschool Conference Proposal

劳伦斯科学馆将主办2004年1月全国课外科学联盟会议的后续会议。第二次会议的目标是进一步推动新成立的全国课外科学联盟，引入更多的组织和观点，将这一愿景纳入下一步行动计划，建立基础设施、研究议程和框架、宣传运动和可持续发展计划，其中将包括与会者之间的进一步联系。这次会议将有助于加强全国目前参加课外计划的10%以上青年的科学教育，他们中的许多人在正规教育系统中得到的服务最少。这次会议将汇集科学教育和课外项目的领导者，结合他们关于如何分享当前想法的最佳想法，并创建新的合作伙伴关系、模式、研究倡议和组织结构，以推动他们的工作。会议将允许STEM和课外组织的现有和潜在领导人相互交流，分享最佳实践，并形成战略联盟。除了传统的传播机制(网站、名单服务器、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更多的组织，并向新的受众传递信息，包括那些与残疾学生、社区组织和家长倡导者一起工作的人。除了劳伦斯·霍尔，联盟中的主要组织还有探索学院、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.