Annual Meeting
The NISE Net Annual Meeting is an invitation only, multiday event intended to help address the significant questions and challenges that have confronted both the Network and the field during the year.
About 150 participants attend this event. Approximately half are Network members; the rest are invited guests. A key component to the success of the meeting, and to the Network in general, is the inclusion of these guests, who are scientists and professionals from a variety of fields. These participants are valued for contributing their knowledge and insight into current nanoscale science, while simultaneously learning about informal science education, the ways in which informal science institutions engage the public in science, and the possibilities for working together.
The meeting presents the following opportunities:
- Strengthening connections among individuals and among institutions
- Sharing critical thinking across stands of work and across disciplines
- Creating opportunities for relationships among research organizations and the informal science education field
- Generating and disseminating knowledge
Troy Livingston of the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science and Barbara Herr Harthorn of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UC - Santa Barbara
Cate Alexander of the National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office (NNCO) and Stephanie Robinson of the Education Trust, Inc.
The Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ESI-0532536.