1. LIGO Outreach Award Livingston, Louisiana Observatory Request for authorization to commit funds in advance of receipt from NSF September 2005

2. History In April 2004 LIGO received a grant (PHY- 0355454) for $3.094 million (over five years) from the NSF to build an outreach center in Louisiana in collaboration with the Exploratorium (San Francisco), SUBR, and LA GEAR UP

3. Exploratorium LaSIP/La GEAR UP LIGO SUBR LIGO SEC Our Partnership

4. Exploratorium Teaching & Learning Over 650 exhibits An educational center Informal learning environment

5. Southern University College of Sciences Dept of Physics Dept of Mathematics College of Education Course Redesign E-Learning Pre-service Teacher training Docent training Student Field Trips  A Leading producer of teachers in LA  Largest HBCU System in the nation

6. LA GEAR UP Louisiana Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs  statewide K- 16+ educational reform agency  school connections  Teacher Professional Development

7. Science Education Center (SEC) One of the key components of the Outreach Proposal is a Science Education Center located on the Livingston Site

8. LIGO SEC Floor Plan Informal and Formal Science Teaching and Learning

9. LIGO Science Education Center Objectives include : Pre-service and in-service teacher training Reach a broad audience of students in Louisiana and regional area General public outreach

10. LIGO SEC Summary Multi-faceted approach to outreach LIGO SEC facility will be fully used for student learning and teacher PD Interactive Exhibits will be used to anchor students and teachers in LIGO science themes “Focused science” themes Regional resource: National Implications

11. Exploratorium Exhibits The Exploratorium has already prepared exhibits for Livingston under this Grant and for Hanford using Operations funding, and these exhibits have been set up in temporary locations

12. SEC Construction Contract The last chart illustrates the timing for expected funding from the NSF for the Outreach Program and limited Caltech exposure for the proposed plan for issuing a contract for the Science Education Center. We expect to issue a contract for the Science Education Center in October. The contract value will be $1,734,369. We will also issue a contract for construction management, which we estimate will be less than $75,000. The total cost plus commitments will step up to $2.7 million at that time. This is reflected in the green curve on the last chart.

13. Outreach Funding Profile We received funding for Outreach in April 2004 of $1.994,919. We expect an additional $891,101 for a total of $2,886,020 in April 2006. We will submit our annual report immediately after the first of the year and hope to accelerate this award date. The solid red curve reflects the budgeted funding (See last chart). Encouraged by the NSF, we will submit a request for $400,000 in supplemental funding to offset the increased cost of the building. This supplemental funding is depicted by the dashed red curve. I show receipt of this funding in October although it could be later.

14. Consequences (see next chart) The key thing to note is that for a period of time our commitments on this program will exceed our funding authorization (Green curve higher than Red Curves). However, the Blue Curve represents a projection of Actual Costs. Based on this projection we do not expect actual costs to exceed our funding authorization and, indeed, there should be considerable margin.