Youth Leading Maryland Forward
Statewide Service-Learning Conference 2000

Registration Form for Workshop Proposal
Thursday, March 23, 2000
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland


Primary Presenter(s) Information

Contact Name: 		Flavio Mendez
County/LEA: 		Baltimore City
Organization/School: 	Maryland Science Center
Type of Presenter:  	Community organization (informal education)      
Address: 		601 Light Street, Baltimore, MD, 21230
Phone:			410-545-5995
Fax:			410-545-5974
Email:			mendez@mdsci.org

Co-Presenters names and titles:

1. Dr. Dan Steinberg, scientist/educator
2. Dr. Alex Storrs, scientist
3. Max Mutchler, scientist
4. Dr. Susan Blunck, education professor
5. Julie Ayers, agency representative
6. Bessina Williams, teacher
7. Caren Oberg, educational evaluator


Workshop Information

Title of Workshop:		
The sky is NOT the limit: 
pushing service-learning in science 
beyond the Earth's environment   
 
Your target audience:  
Youth, K-12 Educators, Community Organizations, 
Parents, College/University, Business (all types apply)

Workshop A-V needs:  Overhead projector, TV/VCR

We request to be in workshop session #1 (10:30-11:45 AM), 
since our primary presenter must return to the 
Maryland Science Center by noon.

3. Workshop Goals:	

To stimulate ideas of how  service-learning in science can be 
extended to a broader range of sciences and community issues. 

4. Write a brief, exciting description of your workshop:

Service-learning in science has been dominated by environmental projects. 
We believe it is ready to graduate from it's environmental infancy, 
and be infused into a wider range of sciences and community issues. 
We will facilitate a brainstorming session to stimulate ideas on how 
this can be accomplished. We will also present our own service-learning 
project for which the sky (i.e. the Earth's environment) is NOT the limit. 
Our team of educators and scientists is engaging teachers and students in 
an astronomy-based project which addresses what may be the biggest barrier 
to informed citizenship in this technological age: 
math/science illiteracy itself. 

5. How does your workshop address building and using quality 
   service-learning partnerships?

The Baltimore/DC region is ripe with possible service-learning partnerships. 
Our team's project exemplifies this: it partners a science museum, 
a school of education, a public school system, and a scientific 
research institution. We will encourage our participants to seek out 
similar collaborations, and provide insight on overcoming the barriers 
between diverse institutions/cultures.

6. What hands-on experience will you include?

We will engage our workshop participants in some of the hands-on activities 
we use in our service-learning project at the Maryland Science Center. 

7. What opportunities for interaction among participants will you provide?

We will facilitate a brainstorming session to stimulate ideas on how a 
wider range of service projects could be infused into a wider range of 
science and math courses.