1. WELCOME! March 21, 2014 University Center of Greenville
25 in attendance: Nan Dempsey, Cindy Alsip, Russell Cook, Valerie Cooke, Becky Cornwell, Ed Duffy, Alice Gilchrist, Ryan Heafy, Tom Peters, Allison Rosemond, Russell Smart, Wanda Staggers, Mike Svec, Kat Coffman, Rick Murphy, Stephanie Barrett, Katie Rishebarger, Ralph Bush, Lynn Mann, Jeff Bowers, Mikal Keeley, Joel Welch, Cheryl Smith, Louise Mariani, Brian Richard
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Agenda
Welcome & Introductions
Collaborative Updates & News
2014 Priorities Work Teams
Team Reports
Asset Map
Closing
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3. Upstate Collaborative
News & Updates
Education and Business Summit– June 22nd -25th
STEM Summit Series-- September 29th – 30th
Education & Business Summit: Nan will submit a proposal for the Collaborative to present at the conference
STEM Summit Series: Focus—STEM and the Arts. Planning committee seeking presenters. Proposal applications can be found at the SC Coalition for Mathematics and Science website
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4. Lowcountry STEM Festival Lessons Learned Darren Prevost, Director
Lowcountry STEM Collaboartive
Darren Prevost provided an informative 40 minute presentation on the recent Lowcountry STEM Festival.
Information shared regarding the Festival included:
Structure of the various committees
Funding and fund raising efforts
Budgeting
Exhibitors
Evaluation
Advertising
And lessons learned
Darren has offered to mentor the Upstate Collaborative regarding out STEM Festival efforts.
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Priorities for 2014
STEM Asset Map
“Pensioneers”
Science on the Move
Upstate STEM Festival
Attendees divided (self-selected) into 4 work groups to begin initial conversations regarding our 4 priorities for Work groups shared synopsis of their dialogue with the whole group.
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6. STEM Asset Mapping Launching in early 2014!
The STEM Asset Map is open—by invitation-- for a one week soft launch to work out the “kinks”. Tom walked us through log-in and mock “live pages” of the site. Attendees were invited/encouraged to register and provide feedback regarding what needs “smoothing out” prior to official launch.
Address is:

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Parting Thoughts
Meeting dismissed
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Future 2014 Meeting Dates
April 18th
May 16th
June 20th
July 18th
August 15th
September 19th
October 17th
November 21st
December 12th
We may not need to meet all of these dates, but would like to hold them in case we do.
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