NEW:The 2011-2012 NLI Fellows will graduate in April. The 2012-2013 Fellows will be announced soon.

Noyce Leadership Fellows 2010-2011 (Cohort 3)

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Collectively develop and articulate a better understanding of the museum's audiences, their needs and perceptions, and how we can best direct our resources and programming to meet those needs, with a focus on underserved audiences.

COSI, Columbus, Ohio

Create a systemic set of initiatives designed to grow general public attendance and membership, as well as to expand to new audiences in our community by making STEM relevant to their daily lives.

EXPERIMENTARIUM, Denmark

Appoint and manage a think tank and create a regional partnership between Experimentarium and central interests, with the common goal of working towards establishing an innovative environment that focuses on modern technology.

EXPLORA, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Lead the further visioning and long-term planning process for Explora's Directors group to interpret, focus and prioritize the ideas for the development of a learning park.

Exploratorium, San Francisco, California

Development of an integrated, creative pipeline connecting two major exhibition groups and tighten research, development, and dissemination efforts to produce a more cohesive continuum of practice.

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Fort Worth, Texas

Develop a Sustainable Fort Worth Initiative program to build awareness where community leaders can come together and dialogue about the challenges the community is facing related to the use of
energy resources.

Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, Ohio

Lay the groundwork to establish a community-based Fresh Water Institute in Northeast Ohio.

National Museum of American History (Smithsonian), Washington, D.C.

Examine how a national museum can create more informed and involved citizens through actively promoting civic engagement.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon

Develop exhibits and educational programming for the Portland community on the topic of sustainability, as well as the development of a Green Exhibit Guide for the professional museum community.

Pacific Science Center, Seattle, Washington

Develop a vibrant, sustainable and cost-effective Comprehensive Master Plan for Pacific Science Center that honors and preserves our past, while understanding the community's future demands for our facility.

Please Touch Museum, Pennsylvania

Facilitate the transformation of the Please Touch Museum's culture from "The Little Museum that Could" to "The Big Museum that Does."

Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri

Expand the role of the St. Louis Science Center as an educational resource in the St. Louis region and as a model for change in education in the United States via the creation of the Institute for Science Education.

Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota

Reframe the museum's Interpretive Plan, in a partnership with community leaders, to identify the role of SMM in informing policymakers in making decisions about current science issues.

Science North, Ontario, Canada

Increase the relevance and significance of Dynamic Earth to the Northern Ontario community to realize its full potential.

Sciencenter, Ithaca, New York

Provide youth with basic "advocacy training" on how to use science to start a movement centeredon real world issues.

Telus World of Science, Calgary, Canada

Undertake a sustainable strategy for changing content and maintaining currency of content in the new TWS through engagement with community, providing a model for other aspects of the changeability strategy for the new TWS.

The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Development of the Philadelphia Science Festival, with a particular focus on developing on-going collaborative relationships between Informal Science Education organizations and building community around science.

The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Draw in contributors, build consensus, focus ideas and priorities, and begin implementation of the Public Engagement Strategy, with the ultimate goal of creating meaningful visitor interactions that inspire, last a lifetime, generate understanding, and urge people onto action.