| Announcing the Fourth Annual National Citizen Science Conference When: August 24 - 27, 2006
Where: Downtown Marriott, One Orms Street, Providence, RI
Join us for a Celebration of the Scientific Genius of the Common Citizen FOR FREE!
We've underbooked our hotel, so for an extremely limited time only you can come and hear the world's most accomplished citizen scientists for FREE! (With hotel registration!) So come to Providence, Rhode Island to celebrate the scientific potential of the common citizen. Learn from, network with, and enjoy the fellowship of people who love science as much as you do. This conference is open to everyone, not just to SAS members, NOW FREE!
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NEW Hands-On Workshops: Learn nature drawing from Aleta Karstad, and Electronics from Forrest Mims!
Labrats: Meet the Labrats development team, and maybe even some live Labrats from our pilot Synergy, Triple-Alpha, and find out how your children can get involved in this exciting new educational program. |
Stimulating Lectures: Citizen science is really coming of age. Hear some of the world's leading citizen scientists reveal their extraordinary accomplishments, and learn about all the extraordinary opportunities that are now exploding for you and your family to do hands-on real science.
Local Chapter Support: Find out how easy it now is to organize a local SAS chapter in your neighborhood. |
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Field Trip: Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Mystic Aquarium. Learn how they grow tons of plankton, farm jellyfish, nurse sick creatures back to health, and support their own vast underwater ecosystem. Plus visit whales, penguins, Dr. Bob Ballard's undersea world and more! |
Doing Well by Doing Good: Attend this special seminar by SAS's founder, Dr. Shawn Carlson, and learn how you can make money in your spare time by supporting our Society. Are you involved with another science group? Learn how affiliating with SAS can help raise money for your group's projects! |
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Keynote Speaker: One of our country's great citizen scientists, Joe Nichols, will share some of his incredible experiences during his many years as a paranormal investigator for CSICOP—the world-famous Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. |
Special Seminar on the HOBO Data Logger: Learn how simple it now is to take all kinds of data electronically and analyze it on your computer. SECRET: Everyone who attends this free lecture will walk away with a FREE HOBO data logger! |
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Poster Session: Find out all the cool things that your fellow citizen scientists are doing during our informal poster session. This is a great chance to share your own work, network or find people to collaborate with. STUDENT POSTERS ARE MOST WELCOME! |
Franklin Awards Banquet: And of course, you'll enjoy our awards banquet and special lecture by this year's winner of the coveted Benjamin Franklin Citizen Scientist Award. Plus meet Shawn Carlson, Forrest Mims, Lynn Costa and all the cast of SAS. |
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Would you like to be a presenter? Then please contact Lynn Costa right away. We have just a few spots left and they are filling fast! The deadline for submitting a paper is 07 August, 2006. |
Schedule of Events
Register and Book Your Hotel Reservations Here
Select from one of the following package deals available exclusively to conference attendees |
Early bird Before Aug 1
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Aug 2 - 24 |
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Full Event Package: Meetings Sat. and Sun., plus breakfast and lunch both days, plus special Behind-the-Scenes Tour at Mystic Aquarium, Plus Forrest Mims special hands-on Workshop, plus Windfree Lecture, plus Awards Banquet, plus Sunday Poster Session, plus special Nature Drawing Workshop.
Purchase Full Package Now |
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HOTEL: You to get this FREE deal you must make your hotel reservations at the Downtown Marriott, Providence directly online. Please do so today! IMPORTANT NOTE: You must use Group Code: "sassasa" and manually set the dates on Marriott's registration page to be within August 24 - August 27, 2006 (inclusive) to get this FREE deal . If for some reason this link does not work for you, please call the Marriott Hotel reservation line directly at 1-800-228-9290
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QUESTIONS-PROBLEMS-CONCERNS... Call the SAS office at 401-398-7001 right away!
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