2009 Annual Meeting Agenda

Brief agenda for the 2009 meeting:

For more information, read detailed session descriptions. Day One, Sept. 14 What's Going on in Nano Today? Opening remarks by Dave Ucko, NSF Keynote: NISE Network Address, Larry Bell, Museum of Science, Boston Regional Hub Group Discussion 1: Plans for and Purpose of Regional Focus Lunch, with performance of Dance of the Scales Concurrent sessions:

• Research Round Robin: Concurrent Conversations with Six Nano Researchers
• Communicating Science Through Creative Performances

Regional Hub Group Discussion 2: Scientists in Informal Science Education Day Two, Sept. 15 How Do We Integrate Nano into Topics and Stories We Already Cover? Keynote: Dietram Scheufele: Framing Science for the Public Learning Progressions and Nano Concurrent working sessions:

• Exploring the Art in Nano and the Nano in Art
• ISE at the Intersection of Nano and Nature
• Energy and Environment (Download agenda with list of showcase items and presenters)
• Tiny Fundamentals
• Why Should I Care?: Using Societal and Ethical Issues to Make Nano Relevant
• This Won't Hurt a Bit: Injecting Nanomedicine Into Public Awareness

Regional Hub Group Discussion 3: Infusing Nano Content into Current Practices Day Three, Sept. 16 How Do We Integrate Nano Beyond Our General Audiences? Keynote: Eric Jolly, Science Museum of Minnesota Concurrent Working Sessions:

• Developing Full-Body Experiences to Reach Diverse Audiences
• Engaging Science Attentive Adults in Everything Nano
• Nano Camps and After School Programs (Download a PDF of the presentations and other materials from the session.)
• Back-to-School Nano: What to Offer School Groups
• NanoDays and Beyond
• Beyond Text: Using Audio to Enhance Nano Learning for All
• Marketing Nano Back Home
• The Little Nano that Could: Younger Audiences and Nanotechnology (Download agenda with list presenters)

Regional Hub Group Discussion 4: Diversity, Equity and Access Closing Remarks by Larry Bell