January 9,
2008
MEMORANDUM
To: Fair
Directors
From:
Re: SSP
Middle School Program – suspended in 2009
With much
regret, Society for Science & the Public announces that the SSP Middle
School Program will be suspended, effective in 2009, because sponsorship to
support the expense of the program has not been indentified.
SSP remains
committed to continuing efforts to secure a sponsor or sponsors to support a
program that serves our middle school science fair participants, and, if
successful, will reactivate the SSP Middle School Program in the future.
We are
extremely proud of the ten years of the program and the accomplishments of over
75,000 middle school science fair participants. A total of 3,900 semifinalists
and 390 finalists were honored over the course of the DYSC, the DCYSC and the
SSP Middle School Program from 1999-2008. We have delighted in seeing alumni of
this program participate in our high school programs, the Intel International
Science & Engineering Fair and the Intel Science Talent Search, and in
hearing of their achievements in so many other arenas.
Society for
Science & the Public and Intel have recently celebrated the extension and
expansion of its partnership in support of our high school programs, and we
look forward to seeing many of you through your participation in the Intel ISEF
and the Intel STS. We have every confidence that in less challenging
economic times, we will secure sponsorship to reestablish a quality program
that celebrates and encourages the critically important middle school
student.
Thanks to each
of you for the support you have provided to this program and to SSP, and best
wishes for your continued success in science education.
Michele C. Glidden
Director of Science Education
Programs
Society for Science & the Public
1719 N Street NW,
Email: mglidden@societyforscience.org
Phone: 202-785-2255
Fax: 202-822-3932
Please visit our new web site www.societyforscience.org for
more information