SEDS provides a great opportunity to "pay forward" and help to build the next generation of explorers aiming, quite literally, for the stars! By supporting this project, you enable students to help reach out and communicate the programs and activity that SEDS members and SEDS chapters do across the country. This project also helps to inspire others to help both locally and nationally, and provides opportunities for students to develop key professional skills at trade shows and other events.
SEDS can best extend its mission to nationwide classrooms and education institutions by working with existing networks and organizations. To do this SEDS needs to explore, contact, and reach out to them. A tremendous amount of this networking and business making happens at national conferences. SEDS has previously been able to attend conferences by leveraging partnerships with fellow organizations and volunteering to run conferences but there is limited new business growth with this method.
SEDS was highly sucessful in 2013, attending 4 new trade shows and building a large number of new connections as a result. We hope to continue that trend and target new trade shows and conferences both to attend and exhibit where we can better reach thousands of K-12 science teachers, industry representatives, and other potential partners. This will enable better connections and networking, providing new opportunities for students across the country.
We will educate 1000+ students across the US nation and work with our international partners to encourage the youth to take responsibility and initiative to develop a stronger tomorrow. While SEDS is an interest group that seeks to promote exploring and developing space, our best path forward can often come from unexpected directions; because of this the organization seeks to promote active leadership and involvement in fostering the debate of these topics, both among ourselves and the public.
