August 20, 2017
On July 28, the Smithsonian, through its Smithsonian Science Education Center, formalized its alliance with Global Partnership for Science Education Through Engagement's (GSEE's) Think Like a Scientist initiative. That came to fruition by entering a memorandum of understanding with GSEE, in which the Smithsonian Science Education Center would establish the Network for Emergent Scientific Thinking (NEST) with Aspen's "Always Thinking Like a Scientist" (ATLAS) after school program–an experimental pilot program that would test a collaborative new approach between scientists and science educators to reach a middle school audience through high school and scientist mentorship.
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