[Grad-postdoc-assn] Fwd: Colorado State Science & Engineering Fair presentation

Tue Jan 27 16:18:00 MST 2015

Please consider this opportunity.

Paula

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From: Carolyn Brinkworth <carolyn at ucar.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:48 PM
Subject: Colorado State Science & Engineering Fair presentation
To: ncar-education at ucar.edu

Hi all,

The CO State Science and Engineering Fair is taking place on Thursday April
9th up in Fort Collins at Colorado State University, and they're still on
the hunt for a more judges. More info from the organisers is at the bottom
of this email. If you're on the fence about whether this sounds like a good
idea or not, they're going to be giving at talk in the FL main auditorium
on Feb 12th, from 11-noon to explain a bit more about the fair and its
impact on students, and answer any questions that people have about
judging. Please do come along to find out more, and bring a friend or two.
A flyer with all the info is attached.

Science fairs are a great way for us to have a surprisingly large impact on
students: while it's only a day of our time, it's the culmination of a long
project for students, which has given them training in the scientific
method, and (hopefully!) built enthusiasm for staying in science. They get
communication and presentation experience, get to meet real scientists, and
participation in the fair gives them the chance to win scholarships for
higher education. Apart from that, it's also usually a blast - the kids are
smart and generally a lot of fun to talk to. I enjoy it a lot, and it's
sometimes great to get out of the office for a day and be reminded by a 15
yr old why science is cool :)

If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me or Teri Eastburn an
email.

cheers,
Carolyn

>From the organisers:
The 2015 Colorado Science and Engineering Fair (CSEF) will be held April
9-11, 2015 is the 60th Anniversary of the CSEF!  Judging for the CSEF will
take place from 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 9th.  The fair will be
held in the Lory Student Center at Colorado State University.

The success of the CSEF depends in a huge part on the quality of the judges
who volunteer to judge the approximately 400 projects from the 6th-12th
grades (Junior Division is grades 6-8 and Senior Division is grades 9-12)
in 12 different categories.  A description of the categories can be found
by *clicking here <http://www.csef.colostate.edu/Category_Descriptions.pdf>*.
Your participation is greatly needed and much appreciated!

To view the Grand Awards
 Judge Information page, please go to
*http://www.csef.colostate.edu/Judges.htm
<http://www.csef.colostate.edu/Judges.htm>*
 and to register as a Grand Awards Judge, please *click here
<http://129.82.204.188/csef/gaj/login.php>*.
  The importance of your assistance as a Grand Awards Judge
 at the CSEF cannot be estimated enough.  These students come from all
over the state of Colorado to compete at the CSEF.  For grades 9-12, many
of these students will get the opportunity to attend the Intel
International Science and Engineering Fair.  *ALL *of the students gain the
experience of presenting a project to the judges (both visually and
verbally), meet potential contacts who will help them on their road to
college and in some cases includes internships, 
 gain the experience of creating or designing a project from start to
finish, and will have the opportunity to receive scholarships to state
higher education.
  To view some of the past CSEF successes, please *click here*
<http://csef.colostate.edu/>.

Please join us for the 2015 CSEF!  If you have any question, please feel
free to contact me.
Warm regards,

Nancy Glissmann
GrandAwards Judging Coordinator
GrandAwardsCSEF at gmail.com
Colorado Science and Engineering Fair (CSEF)
3835 Birchwood Drive, Boulder, CO  80304-1428
303.817.4271 (cell) 303-413-8505 (home)

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Carolyn Brinkworth
Director for Diversity, Education & Outreach
National Center for Atmospheric Research

303-497-1137

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All that glitters has a high refractive index
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