Dear Collaborative Leadership Team Colleagues - On the agenda for next week's NGCP national call is a discussion of the ways collaboratives invision their purpose. We are hoping that you will join the call and help us out! Tennessee has just kicked off its collaborative and is working on the development of a vision statement for our work across the state. We would love your input. It will help us enormously to hear your vision for your state's Girls Collaborative - and perhaps where you changed over time. There will be at least 4-5 of us on the call from Tennessee. We are hoping that a good number of you also join the call and can help us learn from you as we brainstorm and shape a vision and accompanying strategies for our statewide effort going forward!! Appreciatively, Dale On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 2:03 PM Karen Peterson <kpeterson@ngcproject.org> wrote: Dear Collaborative Leadership Team Members, This is a reminder that our *Collaborative Community Meeting* will be happening *Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 11:00AM Pacific/2:00PM Eastern *(connection details below). Among other topics, we will help the newly formed leadership team for the Tennessee Girls Collaborative Project brainstorm and workshop a vision and accompanying strategies for their statewide effort. *Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 11:00AM Pacific/2:00PM Eastern* Connection Details: http://connectpro35337274.adobeconnect.com/ngcplteams *Please note: Test your connection using this link: * *http://connectpro35337274.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm* <http://connectpro35337274.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm>*. Downloads are required and must be installed prior to entering the room. We recommend you perform the test several hours in advance of the meeting. Enter the Adobe Connect meeting room 10 minutes prior to the meeting start time to test your sound and allow time to resolve potential audio or technical issues.* *The Connectory Talking Points:* May is the month we begin to highlight summer camps in The Connectory. We will also be offering our bulk upload option to program providers on social media. Please find attached the draft May outreach messaging for The Connectory. *Reminder about June Meeting:* We have made a change to the June meeting to partner with SciGirls. So many of you are involved in SciGirls programming, we felt that scheduling this webinar in the NGCP Community meeting time period would be helpful. The new *SciGirls Strategies*, based on a comprehensive literature review and extensive feedback from *SciGirls* educators and trainers, will debut on June 12th via a special one-hour SciGirls/National Girls Collaborative Live Stream starting at 1pm CT. (This work is funded by the National Science Foundation.) Please register for this webinar here: https://ngcproject.org/scigirls-strategies-live-stream-0 . A revised NGCP Community Meeting schedule for May and June is attached. We are looking forward to talking with you next week! -- *DALE McCREEDY, Ph.D.* Vice President of Audience & Community Engagement Discovery Center | 502 SE Broad Street* | *Murfreesboro, TN 37130 E: dmccreedy@explorethedc.org P: 615.890.2300 x241 *www.explorethedc.org <http://www.explorethedc.org/>*