1. Are there bugs in the scope? Jonathon Cummings MIT Sloan School of Management

2. Attractive Characteristics Easy to see the value of connecting K-12 classrooms to an expensive instrument Capitalizes on the use of the Internet to share scientific knowledge Beckman Institute (U. Illinois) is a center of excellence for initiating the collaboratory

3. Issues of Scope Which stakeholders have the most to gain (or lose) from the Bugscope collaboratory? –K-12 students –K-12 teachers –General public –Beckman Institute –Scientific researchers –Scientific fields –Software developers

4. Issues of Scope Which features of the collaboratory are scalable beyond Bugscope? –Instruments –Instrument operators –Internet software –K-12 classrooms –Curriculum support –Student helpers –Saved sessions

5. Issues of Scope Which “-centered” models would benefit other collaboratories like Bugscope? –Instrument-centered –Institute-centered –Student-centered –Teacher-centered –Classroom-centered –Website-centered –NSF-centered