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2009 Conference

The preliminary program for the 2009 ASTC Annual Conference is now online!

2009 ASTC Annual Conference
The Art of Science: Creating a Better Future/El Arte de la Ciencia: Hacia un Futuro Mejor
October 31–November 3, 2009
Hosted by the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Fort Worth, Texas

Start making plans now to make next year your best year ever.
Make plans to be at the 2009 ASTC Annual Conference in Fort Worth, Texas.

How can you tap into the rich artistic, cultural, and creative resources of your community to create buzz about what’s happening in your learning environments? What should your priorities be, and how should you develop strategies to achieve those priorities? How can you make the transition from being “nice” for your community, to being necessary?

These are big questions that require big ideas. Fortunately, this year’s Annual Conference has been designed to help you develop answers to your most pressing questions. After hearing practical advice and first-person success stories, you will come away with concrete actions you can take to engage people of all cultures, provide powerful learning experiences, and become valuable and essential partners in addressing key local, national and global issues through the blending of art and science.

Find your next big idea at the 2009 ASTC Annual Conference.

Attendees at this year’s conference will experience:

  • An exclusive sneak peak at the world’s newest science center before it opens to the public, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

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  • More than 100 sessions and workshops specifically tailored to address today’s unique challenges

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  • Connection to more than 1,000 colleague-consultants

  • Small group discussions on improving the profile of your science center in your community

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  • Collaborations and shared resources that will help you find new ways to reduce costs

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  • ASTC’s new strategic direction for helping science centers integrate more strongly with communities

  • The chance to start building 2010 results on a 2009 budget
We’ll make it easier than ever before to network with your colleagues who are facing the same challenges. We’ll introduce you to creative thinkers who engineered out-of-the-box innovations and best practices for their centers. And we’ll equip you with cutting-edge strategies for creating community partnerships and exciting your visitor base.

In today’s economy it’s critical to make every dollar count – and every minute count while you’re with us in Fort Worth

Latest ASTC Annual Conference Blog Posts

  • 1,800 from 31 countries attend ASTC 2008

    More than 1,800 science center professionals from 31 countries gathered in Philadelphia, October 18-21, for the 2008 ASTC Annual Conference. Over 140 conference sessions challenged participants to explore their responsibility to both their scientific and public constituencies. Keynote speaker Steven Berlin Johnson, a journalist, cultural critic, and web developer, encouraged science centers to become places [...]

  • Back to school

    Last year, ASTC members served millions of students through school outreach programs. That work continued this morning at the ASTC Annual Conference with an off-site session, Outreach Live. Presenters from around the region brought their science centers’ best outreach programs to the Friends Select School in Philadelphia for both students and museum colleagues. A roundtable discussion followed to review and evaluate [...]

  • Museums and the mind

    As advances in neuroscience reveal biological pathways underlying emotion, attention, and memory, how can science centers harness this new research to create effective museum experiences? In an October 19 session at the ASTC Annual Conference, Jayatri Das, senior exhibit and program developer at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, led a panel of experts in neuroscience, [...]

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