Conference Proposal Summary: Planning Meeting to Develop an Annual STEM Media Producers Consortium and Conference

双城公共电视台与科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）媒体专业人士委员会合作，将组织一个为期一天的会议，专门讨论网络建设和规划2013年或2014年首届为期多日的STEM媒体制作人会议。专业组织和会议是在特定领域建立社区和推进实践的众所周知的有效手段。大众媒体-电影，电视，广播，以及最近的在线/数字平台制作-三十多年来一直是NSF支持非正式科学教育（伊势）的主要组成部分，利用各种专业人员的技能。然而，尽管这些专业人士面临着许多共同的问题，而且NSF组合中伊势媒体项目的跨平台性质日益增加，但目前该社区还没有正式的组织，专业协会或年度会议。一个媒体制作人组织和一个定期的年度会议将提供一个急需的论坛，以解决培训和专业发展问题，促进跨平台合作，增加新媒体技术的使用，并将评估和研究综合成STEM媒体强大影响的连贯声明。拟议的会议将与2012年3月的伊势PI会议一起举行，利用2011年7月非正式科学教育促进中心（CAISE）组织的媒体会议所产生的势头。 大约30名与会者将包括来自7月召开的与会者和其他STEM媒体专业人士，所有代表电影，电视，广播和日益重要和多样化的在线/数字领域的子领域，以及研究和评估专家和CAISE工作人员。 议程将强调跨平台合作的潜力，并为更大规模的年度会议确定第二个议程，该会议将包括更大的STEM专业人士社区。

Twin Cities Public Television in collaboration with a committee of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) media professionals will organize a one-day conference devoted to network building and planning for an inaugural, multi-day STEM Media Producers Conference in 2013 or 2014. Professional organizations and conferences are well-known and effective means of building community and advancing practice within specific fields. Mass media -- film, television, radio, and more recently, productions for online/digital platforms -- have been a primary component of NSF's support for informal science education (ISE) for more than three decades, drawing on the skills of an extremely diverse array of professionals. Yet despite the many common issues faced by these professionals and the increasingly cross-platform nature of ISE media projects in the NSF portfolio, at present no formal organization, professional society or annual conference exists for this community. An organization of media producers and a regular, annual meeting will provide a much-needed forum to address issues of training and professional development, facilitate cross-platform collaborations, increase the use of new media technologies, and synthesize evaluations and research into coherent statements of the powerful impact of STEM media.The proposed conference will take place in conjunction with the ISE PI Meeting in March 2012, capitalizing on the momentum generated at a media convening organized by the Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) in July of 2011. The approximately 30 attendees will include participants from the July Convening and other STEM media professionals, all representing the subfields of Film, Television, Radio, and the increasingly important and diverse Online/Digital field, plus research and evaluation specialists and CAISE staff. The agenda will emphasize the potential of cross-platform collaborations and define a second agenda for a larger annual meeting that will include the larger community of STEM professionals.