April 13, 2006 – Thurs, Fri and Sat of last week, the Foundation's newest project - "Teachers in Space" exhibited at the National Science Teachers Association annual convention in Anaheim, California. The TIS team consisted of Bill Boland, Jeff Krukin, Traci Ivory, Jason Marcks, and Don McMahon (Mesa Public School System - AZ).

Our exhibit booth, on loan from Jason's Space Education initiative was modern and had our new signage. (Thanks Jason!) Our booth was well placed between NASA's really, really large space and the food court. In fact several of the NASA folks dropped by, complimenting the effort and expressing support.

Hundreds of teachers, educators and others dropped by the booth, to learn of the TIS project and add their support.

Our primary activities in the booth were:

•	To make people aware of the project
•	Ask them to sign up to receive more information
•	Have them sign an individualized Teachers in Space
•	Declarations that stated that they share our aims
•	Direct them to the web site to take the survey

We got 263 Declarations and 405 sign ups. Among them were many who offered help through their own contacts and networks, who will be followed up with in coming weeks. Thanks to the software set up at the TIS website, all of these people will get emailed thankyou notes.

Foundation Advocate Traci Ivory lugged her totally professional video equipment down from Redmond, WA and filmed our effort. It's obvious she's a pro, and we are very lucky to have her talents. From her work we will be able to produce various multi media products to support our efforts. Don McMahon also brought video from his project (Mesa) that we'll work into finished products.

A press release went out Thursday evening, which we subsequently revised. The final press release may be seen at http://www.space-frontier.org/PressReleases/2006/20060411teachersinspace.html.

If you want to get involved as a volunteer for this growing and important project, contact Bill Boland, the project manager, at us@teachersinspace.org.

For a cash or in-kind contributions (up to and including a scholarship for a teacher to fly) contact Rick Tumlinson at Rick@RickTumlinson.com.

Thanks!
Bill Boland

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