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The TAERSIF Steering Committee
The Thomas A. Edison Regional
Science and Inventors Fairs (TAERSIF) Steering Committee is composed of
representatives from Southwest Florida educational institutions as well as
public and private organizations and businesses. All parties are interested in
promoting a sound education in the sciences, mathematics, engineering, and
technologies while instilling a working knowledge of each person’s intrinsic
right to benefit from his or her creative, problem solving, and critical
thinking skills through application of the scientific, inventive and
entrepreneurial processes.
The District of Lee County
Public Schools, Florida Gulf Coast University, and the (501)(c)(3) Edison
Festival of Light serve as financial administrators, each in specific areas of
the annual program. An endowment fund was established in 2001 to provide
a more stable source of future funding of the regional fairs and is managed by
the Southwest Florida Community Foundation. For more information refer to How You Can Help .
CO Chairpersons:
Gary H. Nelson, DVM
President,
Rick Tully, Environmental Education
District of Lee County Public Schools
Co-Regional Science Fair Coordinators:
Rick Tully, Environmental Education
District of Lee County Public Schools
Jackie Speake, Science Curriculum
Specialist
Assistant Science Fair Coordinator:
Shirley Morrison
District of Lee County Public
Schools
Regional Inventors Fair Coordinator:
Barbara Winitzer
District of Lee County Public Schools
Committee members: (in alphabetical order)
Carol
Anderson
Shelby
Baucom Assistant Director,
Patty
Borden Regional Fairs Volunteer Coordinator
Pam Burt
Elementary Science Expo Coordinator
Stephanie
Cutshall Science Fair Awards Committee
Laura Hamel-Jones Executive Director,
Jim Helms
Past Chairperson, Public Relations & Sponsorship
Committee
Tim Jones and Jim
Garrison Kiwanis International Science Fair Committee
Sally Mayberry, Ph.D.
FGCU Student Volunteer Coordinator
Louise
Phillips Klocke of
Barbara Rebeor Fundraising
Committee Chair
Dave Rice
Evie Rosen The News-Press
Mike Savarese
FGCU Faculty Volunteer Judge Coordinator
Katie
Schlotterbeck Private School Representative
Douglas Spencer,
Jaimie
Weisinger