Harnessing exploration, inspiration and awe

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NASA ESE Community Meeting Nov 2004

• Harnessing exploration, inspiration and awe
• 2D

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Needs

• Nurture a protective instinct to harness
  stewardship
• Identify scientists/ professionals/ storytellers
  with whom people can relate

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Implementation/Tools

• Powerful storytelling
• Personalize the science, the process, the
  discoveries
• Use diverse role-models
• cultures, genders, backgrounds

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Partnerships

• NASA provides powerful global perspective to
  local groups
• After school programs, museums, libraries
  aquariums, zoos. . .

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• Tap into the
• creative lifeblood of the country

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Take NASA out of the nerdy ivory tower

• Encourage use of NASAs global perspective and
  resources to inspire storytellers not only in
  schools but also in the greater creative core of
  our country and the world
• e.g. small prizes in film festivals, music
  composition, dance, theatre, radio, painting,
  sculpture, environmental photography, gaming. . .