What is the OSS Education & Public Outreach “Support Network”?
The OSS “Support Network” is a nationwide infrastructure of space science education/outreach groups whose purpose is to aid space science investigators in identifying and developing high-quality E/PO opportunities. This infrastructure fosters partnerships between the space science and E/PO communities, and provides the services needed to establish and maintain a vital national, coordinated, long-term OSS E/PO program. Of particular interest to OSS proposers are two types of groups whose general aim is to help scientists turn results from space science missions and programs into educationally appropriate activities suitable for regional and/or national dissemination: • Four educational “Forums”, each one oriented toward one of the four OSS science themes (Astronomical Search for Origins and Planetary Systems, Solar System Exploration, Structure and Evolution of the Universe, and Sun-Earth Connections). The Forums are co-located with prominent research institutions and are national in sc
