Colleagues: If you have any interest at all in SCIENCE EDUCATION (read cytometry education as well here) and TRAINING at all levels, read on. If not skip this message. This is a long message, but it's important. For many years I have tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to expand ISAC's interest in sponsoring EDUCATION related activities at Society congresses. At the ISAC 2000 congress I will run a SPECIAL WORKSHOP and I hope that <bold>so</bold> many of you attend that it will drive our society into being a proactive society on education issues. <italic>I encourage you to submit an ABSTRACT before NEXT SATURDAY 14 NOV and IDENTIFY IT under the SECTION: OTHER - "EDUCATION"</italic>. Now, I know this topic does not exist - in fact it never has and I tried members of the organization set the standards and I personally will be highlighted in <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>a special workshop on Monday evening Monday, 22 May at 14:00-16:00 Entitled "Science Education: Linking Students at all Levels"</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>. (I am trying to find some companies to help sponsor the workshop as well - for example I would really like to be able to invite an outstanding person who has spent 7 years in both NSF and NIH to participate, but I need some sponsorship for this.....) In addition, I intend to write a special article for CYTOMETRY on include as many references to the abstracts submitted as possible. Further, I will be creating a new section on our Purdue website on CYTOMETRY EDUCATION and I hope to draw attention to the many issues that currently affect us. Most of you have at least seen, if not used one of the 5 CD-ROMs we have already produced, and you all participate in this discussion group which is pure education! During the workshop we will discuss: 1. How to get <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>$$$</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> for your education efforts 2. What granting agencies have the most money!! 3. Grant writing tips and suggestions how to get some of that money!! 4. How to best be involved in education as a scientist, student, and staff of cytometry and image facilities 5. Training and education of staff, undergraduates and graduates 7. Where are the training workshops and how useful are they? 6. Elementary and high school opportunities - where? 7. How do you successfully link with schools? 8. Bringing school kids into the lab - how to survive the experience!!! 9. How to make the VP take note of your facility - use the "K-12" word! funding sources, the evaluation process, how evaluation and assessment are key words in education grants. How to pronounce "pedagogical"..... and how it impacts how your grant is viewed and reviewed. <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>NEW OPPORTUNITIES</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> We will also demonstrate the first couple of CD-ROMs developed under the BioScope Initiative - a high school materials development program which the NSF funded for $2 million at Purdue. <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>BioScope is BASED on CYTOMETRY education principles</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>!! Opportunities for scientific contributions will be made available. How can you participate? New programs coming from our laboratory such as the RemoteScope Program, and the VIP (Virtual Interactive Partnership program) which will impact hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of school kids will be discussed also. Graduate and continuing education will be discussed and I hope to be able to discuss a new proposal I am developing for sharing flow cytometry and image cytometry teaching and tutorial materials (lecture notes, slides, animations, videos, sample data, etc). Education is hardly mentioned in our society - it's too important to be ignored, I think it is time we did something SERIOUS about that. <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>I encourage you to submit a poster under the section OTHER - EDUCATION.</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> I guarantee that this will be an exciting workshop. <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param> My goal in life is never do anything that is boring,</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> - and if I do, only do it once! This will not be one of those occasions. I will try my hardest to get a significant package of material for every participant of the workshop as well. I'd appreciate an email from you if you would like to attend or participate in this workshop. To make it successful, I suspect that we need to have lots of abstracts. Submit an abstract covering your educational participation - elementary, junior high, high school, undergraduate, graduate, continuing ed, - failures and successes.. Example of Posters I will be submitting to ISAC 2000: Section: OTHER - EDUCATION (write this in the <underline> !</underline>) Biology Laboratories 2. Creating an exciting field trip to the cytometry laboratory for elementary students. over the WEB. engage in Science You have just 6 days to get your abstract in for ISAC 2000 I hope that you will both participate and be inquisitive ..... as that is my definition of science education. unsuccessfully again this year to have it included. However, <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>you<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> as guarantee that any abstract submitted under <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>OTHER - EDUCATION<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>"Cytometry Education in the 21St Century"</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> and I hope that I can The workshop will discuss how to get <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>$$$</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>-- we will discuss the <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>......"Share what you have, take away what you need....."</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> 1. The <bold><italic><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>BioScope Initiative</italic></bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>: Taking Cytometry into High School 3. <bold><italic><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>RemoteScope</italic></bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>: A new real-time digital microscope accessible 4. The <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>VIP</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> Program: A <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>V</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>irtual <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>I</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>nteractive <bold><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>P</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>artnership for kids to best regards Paul Robinson <nofill> J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D., Professor of Immunopharmacology Professor of Biomedical Engineering Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1515 (Ph) (765) 494-0757 Fax (765) 494-0517 jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu http://www.cyto.purdue.edu http://www.bioscope.org
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