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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
Past-president, Edison Inventors
Association
Co-Regional Science Fair Coordinators:
Rick Tully, Environmental Education
District of Lee County Public Schools
Jackie Speake, Science Curriculum
Specialist
Regional Science Fair Logistics Manager
Shirley Morrison
Regional Inventors Fair Coordinator:
Barbara Winitzer
District of Lee County Public Schools
Committee members: (in alphabetical order)
Carol
Anderson
Shelby
Baucom Assistant Director, Imaginarium Hands-On
Patty
Borden Regional
Fairs Volunteer Coordinator
Pam Burt
Elementary
Science Expo Coordinator
Stephanie
Cutshall Science
Fair Awards Committee
Jim Garrison Kiwanis International Science Fair Committee
Elizabeth Gross
Laura Hamel-Jones Executive
Director,
Jim Helms
Past
Chairperson, Public Relations & Sponsorship Committee
Lee Hughes Lee County Public Schools Science
Coordinator
Tim Jones Kiwanis International
Science Fair Committee
Doug
McGregor News-Press and Creative Expression Committee
Sally Mayberry, PhD. 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
Jaimie
Weisinger
Jason
Wikman