A World-Class Western Smithsonian Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education Center

Air and Space West Educational Foundation

Vision and Mission

Vision- To inspire new generations to solve

Science's and Engineering’s Grand Challenges.

MissionMission- It is the mission of the proposed Smithsonian Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education

Center; at Hangar One, a NASA national historic site and birthplace of Silicon Valley; to engender curiosity, promote meaningful hands-on education, and inspire through the Smithsonian's scientific, inventive, and historic treasures.

We will provide a world class model that will shape and advance thinkers who will make the scientific and engineering discoveries in fields such as transportation, g g p ,communications, space science, and planetary sustainability that will change the world and that will continue to excite passion for innovation for generations to come.

Simply our mission is to sustain the ability for the next generation and future onesSimply, our mission, is to sustain the ability for the next generation and future ones thereafter to change the world, like we did.

Vision and Mission

Vision- To inspire new generations to solve

Science's and Engineering’s Grand Challenges.

MissionMission- It is the mission of the proposed Smithsonian Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education

Center; at Hangar One, a NASA national historic site and birthplace of Silicon Valley; to engender curiosity, promote meaningful hands-on education, and inspire through the Smithsonian's scientific, inventive, and historic treasures.

We will provide a world class model that will shape and advance thinkers who will make the scientific and engineering discoveries in fields such as transportation, g g p ,communications, space science, and planetary sustainability that will change the world and that will continue to excite passion for innovation for generations to come.

Simply our mission is to sustain the ability for the next generation and future onesSimply, our mission, is to sustain the ability for the next generation and future ones thereafter to change the world, like we did.

Vision and Mission

Vision- To inspire new generations to solve

Science's and Engineering’s Grand Challenges.

MissionMission- It is the mission of the proposed Smithsonian Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education

Center; at Hangar One, a NASA national historic site and birthplace of Silicon Valley; to engender curiosity, promote meaningful hands-on education, and inspire through the Smithsonian's scientific, inventive, and historic treasures.

We will provide a world class model that will shape and advance thinkers who will make the scientific and engineering discoveries in fields such as transportation, g g p ,communications, space science, and planetary sustainability that will change the world and that will continue to excite passion for innovation for generations to come.

Simply our mission is to sustain the ability for the next generation and futureSimply, our mission, is to sustain the ability for the next generation and future ones thereafter to change the world, like we did.

3 Part Solution

1. STEM Laboratory Classrooms(Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

2 S ith i W t C t Di t ib ti2. Smithsonian West Coast Distribution and Exhibit Center

3. Science, and Technology Conference and Event Center

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STEM Laboratory Classrooms

1. If Silicon Valley is going to be competitive, we must build a new vision of the role of education in preparing students for the 21st century workforce.

High-quality STEM education and learning environments that - prize innovation and imagination - produce children who ultimately will

- germinate new inventions, - develop new products, - create new solutions for many of our world's most pressing problems.

The STEM Crisis Today

The U S is 26th of 65 countriesBy 2014, 15 of the 20 fastest-growing professions require STEM skills.

The U.S. is 26th of 65 countriesin student science tests.

79% of science teachers are not trained inIn 2001, less than 8% of U.S. college are not trained in science education.degrees were in the sciences, down from

17% in 1960.

School teaching laboratories are bare, absent ofg ,inspiring science magic shows and cognitivelearning that switched on the sputnik generation thattook man to the moon.

Smithsonian West Coast Distribution and Exhibit Center

James Smithson's GiftJames Smithson s Gift"I then bequeath the whole of my property...to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian I tit ti E t bli h t f thInstitution, an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge "James Smithsonknowledge... James Smithson (1765-1829)

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Smithsonian’s National Impact

- SI is 70% supported by Federal S s 0% suppo ted by ede adollars, but the budget is shrinking

- Located primarily in Washington DC- SI Membership from the west

is <20%is <20%

- SI Traveling exhibits come west g<20% of the time

M l i th t- Many people in the westwill never travel to Washington DC

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The STEM Public Private Partnership

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Science, and Technology Conference and Event Center

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Breathing the Life back into NASA Ames and Silicon Valley

Facility Planned Events Group Facility Rentalsy- Air Shows- Concert Series- Festivals

G oup ac ty e ta s- Corporate Events- Film & Movie Making

Science & Professional ConferencesFestivals- Inside Out Late Movie Nights- National and Regional STEM Faculty

Conferences

- Science & Professional Conferences - Trade Shows - Weddings

Conferences- Science Lecture Series

- Youth Club, and Non Profit Events- Community Events, Rallies, Town

Hall Meetings

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Funding of a Western SmithsonianEarth, Air, and Space STEM Education Center

NASA d/ DOD F di ?Reskin NASA and/or DOD Funding ?

P i t F diWarm Shell Private Funding Historic Tax Credits (~20% of Total Cost)

St t f C lif i C t f S t Cl d Citi f M t i Vi

LLC

Site State of California, County of Santa Clara, and Cities of Mountain View

and Sunnyvale (2020, or other) Corporate Branding

Program(Education & Exhibits)

Foundation Grants Corporate Branding Existing Federal Agency Education Programs Individual Donations Education and Research Specific Grants

A World-Class Western SmithsonianEarth, Air, and Space STEM Education Center

Simply, our mission,

is to sustain the ability for the next generation and future ones thereafter to change the world,

like we did.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.y p

--Winston Churchill