1. WELCOME
to the
NICE Monthly Webinar
January 26, 2012
We will begin shortly!
PLEASE NOTE: To control the amount of background
sound, please mute your telephones after dialing in
by pressing *6 or by using a manual mute button on
your telephone.

2. Dr. Lin Dr. Margaret
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Chambers, Project Pippin, Deputy Project
Scientist Scientist
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Kate Spruill, Dr. Ann
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Evaluator
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A Andi Geyer, Program Manager
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Denice Dublin, Program & Development Specialist
Cassandra Small, Program Assistant

3. AGENDA:
• Announcements & Reminders
• Presentations by:
• Kevin Czajkowski - University of Toledo
• Julie Lambert - Florida Atlantic University
• Gillian Roehrig - University of Minnesota

4. ANNOUNCEMENT
American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Spring 2012 AIHEC Student Conference
March 24–27, 2012
Rapid City, South Dakota
www.aihec.org
NICE Climate Education Strands
on Monday & Tuesday
1-Day Faculty
1-Day Student

5. ANNOUNCEMENT
Tri-Agency PI Meeting
April 17-20, 2012
Washington, DC
Sheraton National Hotel
Arlington, Virginia
www.sheraton.com/Arlington
Draft agenda will be forthcoming.

6. ANNOUNCEMENT
Date Change for the
March Webinar to
March 22, 2012
Presenters:
Alanna Shevak – Public Broadcast Service
JoEllen Carlson – University of South Florida
Scott Lindstrom – Madison Area Technical College

7. ANNOUNCEMENT
Acknowledging NASA support
in publications
" all publications should acknowledge NASA
support, including the name of the
program, and the grant number(s)"

8. Accomplishments & Reporting Update
FY 2011 Accomplishments reported to NASA HQ
• 42 new or revised higher education courses; over 1,405
students participated
• 3,953 elementary and secondary educators participated
in STEM PD
• Over 4,000 elementary and secondary students
participated
THANK YOU for the metrics data submitted on the
PAF’s and quarterly reports!
On January 30th, the system will be opened for
December 2011 reports
• Will have a few new features to add clarity and
correct some system issues
• Please input your Dec 2011 report by February 24, 2012
Not Submitted Submitted
• Please review and submit prior reports
• Expect system to be in sync with future reporting
periods
• Will begin working on Version 2 in late February;
suggestions are welcome.
Participant Surveys and PAF’s

9. ANNOUNCEMENT
Evaluators @ 2012 Tri-Agency
PI Meeting
Email Ann Martin at ann.m.martin@nasa.gov
• Need to update nice-evaluators@lists.nasa.gov – you can
tell us in the Webex chat box!
• You have all received info about the Tri-Agency PI meeting;
in addition to PI-focused activities, there will be a strand for
evaluators and a discussion about a common evaluation
framework for tri-agency funded CCE projects.

10. ANNOUNCEMENT
Evaluators @ 2012 Tri-Agency
PI Meeting
Email Ann Martin at ann.m.martin@nasa.gov
As we plan for the event, we would like to gauge interest. If you are
interested in having an evaluator attend, please let us know which of the
following situation(s) applies to you:
1. You expect to be able to fund your evaluator to travel to the
meeting.
2. Your evaluator otherwise has access to travel funds to attend the
meeting and you will pursue this option with them.
3. You and/or your evaluator would like for them to attend but
funding is an issue at this time.
4. You’re not planning on asking your evaluator to participate in the
meeting.

11. PRESENTER
Kevin Czajkowski
University of Toledo
Professor
Geography & Planning
kevin.czajkowski@utoledo.edu

12. PRESENTER
Julie Lambert
Florida Atlantic
University
Associate Professor
Science Education
jlambert@fau.edu

13. PRESENTER
Gillian Roehrig
University of
Minnesota
Associate Professor
Science Education
roehr013@umn.edu

14. Next Monthly Webinar
February 23, 2012
PRESENTERS
• Robert J. Myers – Institute for Global
Environmental Strategies
• David Gosselin – University of Nebraska
• Amy Work – Institute for the Application of
Geospatial Technology/Cayuga Community
College

15. THANKS FOR
PARTICIPATING IN THIS
MONTH’S WEBINAR.
HAVE A NICE DAY!