Hello NGCP National Champions! It is only Day 2 and we have received many Happy Anniversary wishes! Thank you all for joining the celebration. The full schedule is here: http://www.ngcproject.org/anniversary-celebration-2012 along with copies of the two special edition e-newsletters we've distributed. Did you see the video SciGirls made for us? Singing AND a cake! Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?v=10152123212520788. And we are celebrating SciGirls all day Thursday. We celebrated role models today by highlighting our Techbridge partners and the FabFems role model database. Here are ways you can be involved. * Use the hash tag #celebrateNGCP when you post about your events, about collaboration opportunities, or to wish NGCP Happy Anniversary. * Use the NGCP 10th Anniversary logo - located about halfway down the page here: http://www.edlabgroup.org/graphic_style_guide.html We have three more special edition NGCP e-newsletters queued up and ready to go, following the daily themes and previewing events for the next day. We are using social media extensively. Please share, like, and repost as much as possible. * Wednesday: Collaboration Strategies and Successes. Webinar. Highlighting National Champions Board members and their organizations. This is you. We will also do some funding asks on this day for mini-grants. Announcements of several new partnerships. * Thursday: SciGirls! Three webinars listed in the NGCP newsletter. * Friday: Collaboratives. See the schedule on the website. Ann will help during you If you aren't available to post on Facebook or Twitter about your collaborative, you can send information to Ann and she will push it out. * Saturday: Expanding Your Horizons. Tennessee is hosting their annual EYH conference and will be sending out updates. If you have an EYH conference in your area, please highlight it. Let me know if you have questions or need more information. Thank you for helping to create a Collaboration Nation. Karen A. Peterson, Chief Executive Officer, EdLab Group & Principal Investigator, National Girls Collaborative Project voice: 425.977.4750 kpeterson@edlabgroup.org<mailto:kpeterson@edlabgroup.org> www.edlabgroup.org<http://www.edlabgroup.org>