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Making the Connection

Making the Connection

What better way to spend the summer than to find a good park and soaking in the Sun-Earth Connection?

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Stardust@home

Stardust@home

Join the search for interstellar dust returned by the Stardust mission.

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In Focus

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Announcing NASA's Four New Education and Public Outreach Forums

Developing sustainable education and outreach programs The new Heliophysics SEPOF
 

NASA is working with four newly-formed Science Education and Public Outreach Forums (SEPOFs) to increase the overall coherence of the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) program. SEPOFs support the astrophysics, heliophysics, planetary and Earth science divisions of NASA SMD in three core areas:

  • E/PO Community Engagement and Development

  • E/PO Product and Project Activity Analysis

  • Science Education and Public Outreach Forum Coordination Committee Service

SEPOFs are collaborating with NASA and external science and education and outreach communities in E/PO on multiple levels ranging from the mission and non-mission E/PO project activity managers, project activity partners, and scientists and researchers, to front line agents such as naturalists/interpreters, teachers, and higher education faculty, to high level agents such as leadership at state education offices, local schools, higher education institutions, and professional societies.

The overall goal for the SEPOFs is increased awareness, knowledge, and understanding of scientists, researchers, engineers, technologists, educators, product developers, and dissemination agents of best practices, existing NASA resources, and community expertise applicable to E/PO. By coordinating and supporting the NASA E/PO Community, the NASA/SEPOF partnerships will lead to more effective, sustainable, and efficient utilization of NASA science discoveries and learning experiences.

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