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On Tuesday, May 7 from 2:00 to 3:30PM Eastern, the ASTC Public Engagement with Science Community of Practice will be hosting a webinar on using PES strategies to engage communities on issues of local importance. It will feature presentations from Kate Brandes, Science Program Director, The Nurture Nature Center; Jen Kretser, Director of Programs, The Wild Center; and David Sittenfeld, Program Manager (Forum), Museum of Science, Boston, followed by an audience Q&A. Details about these programs can be found below.

To register, visit https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/455725359

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For information on this and upcoming PES CoP webinars (including presentations from Dan Kahan of the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale University and Dietram Scheufele of the University of Madison - Wisconsin) visit: http://www.astc.org/blog/2013/04/30/upcoming-pes-community-of-practice-webinars/


Adirondack Youth Climate Program, The Wild Center
Presenter: Jen Kretser, Director of Programs
For the last 5 years, The Wild Center has been engaging youth ages 14-21 through the Adirondack Youth Climate Summit - a 2-day youth conference planned for and by students to engage them on climate change. The summit focuses on following goals:  Hear research-based information about the economic and ecological consequences of climate change;  learn strategies to respond to climate change in the Adirondacks and in the process save their schools and communities money; develop a carbon reduction plan to bring back to their school and community; and development of youth leadership skills. The summit framework - 2 days of presentations, hands-on workshops, planning and networking time, student driven and solution oriented  - has inspired other youth summits with a focus on local food, environmental justice, and climate as far away as Finland. We are now exploring a year-round program to better support learning and engagement in the schools and surrounding communities.

Forum Programming, Nurture Nature Center
Presenter: Kate Brandes, Science Program Director
Nurture Nature Center (NNC) is a science-based organization that combines science, art, and dialogue to get people talking and thinking critically about local environmental issues. Our forum programming adapts the community forum model in use by other science centers by focusing on an acute local environmental risk topic to rivet community attention. The intent of the forum model is to ground discussions on sound science and to deliberate for improved community resiliency. For more information see: http://nurturenaturecenter.Org/

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Presenter: David Sittenfeld, Program Manager, Forum
The Museum of Science, Boston has worked in recent years to convene thoughtful engagement activities around issues of relevance for local communities, in an effort to empower the voices of everyday citizens and enrich societal decision-making.  Two program formats will be discussed: community forums featuring presentations from experts and recommendations from diverse publics around the topics of planning for sea level rise in Boston and consumer products made through nanotechnology; and an ongoing series of participatory health assessments and urban planning conversations, designed and implemented by youth interns in collaboration with a group of expert mentors from Cambridge Public Health Department and a number of local universities.



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