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Take advantage of free public presentations offered by The Forum at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.
Also be aware of excellent videos of presentations at TED and MITWorld
Scroll down for a section of excellent special video collections (Apollo, Carl Sagan, IMAX, etc)

11-2011  Ham Radio - School Communication with the International Space Station  1 hour
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11-2011  Congressional Hearing  /  STEM In Action: Transferring Knowledge from the Workplace to the Classroom  /  1.5 hours
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11-2011  On Being Human  /  Dr. Ray Weymann  /  Cal Poly Forum   /  47 min
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11-2011  Innovation and America's Future: The Forum - Education and Skills for the 21st Century Economy
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11-2011  Champions of Change: Make It In America  1.5 hours  /  accompanying White House website
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11-2011  Tour of the Moon  5.5 min  /  HD
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10-2011  California STEM Summit 2011  California STEM Learning Network, 10/10-11/2011
                  > News10 News Article
                  > Speaker Bio Information
                  > Welcome & Introductions  /  Linda Katehi - Warren Baker - Tom Torlakson  37 min
                  > California's Challenge: Sparking Innovation in STEM  /  Chris Roe  /  12 min
                  > Keynote Speaker The Honorable Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom  47 min
                  > Keynote Speaker Bob Tinker  38 min
                  > Panel 1:  STEM Education is Job One  /  Matt Lonner  /  Chevron   /  50 min
                  > Panel 2:  The Policy Horzon in STEM: From Barrier to Breakthrough?  1 hour
                  > Panel 3:  STEM Learning 24/7: Advancing STEM in Out-of-School Time  52 min
                  > Panel 4:  The Role of New Media and Technologies in Bolstering STEM  55 min
                  > Panel 5:  Creating & Sustaining Inter-Segmental, Regional Networks  1 hour
                  > Forging a State STEM Policy Agenda  /  Susan Burr  /  CA County Superintendents Educ Svcs  /  21 min
                  > Reports from Breakout Sessions  21 min
                  > Continuing the Dialogue: Taking Action  /  18 min
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10-2011  Are We Alone?  /  Dr. Jill Tarter  /  Cal Poly Forum  /  53 min
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10-2011  Congressional Hearing  /  What Makes for Successful K-12 STEM Education: A Closer Look at Effective
                   STEM Education Approaches  1.5 hours      Responding to National Academies NRC report, June 2011:
                   Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering,
                   and Mathematics
Press Release  /  Report
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09-2011  NASA Human Spaceflight Past, Present and Future: Where Do We Go From Here?   2.5 hours
                   House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space and Technology Hearing
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08-2011  Public Opinion and U.S. Education Conference  /  George Washington University  /  1.7 hours
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08-2011  "We Stopped Dreaming" Neil deGrasse Tyson about NASA  /  Director, Hayden Planetarium  /  3 min
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08-2011  FIRST Robotics "i.am.FIRST - Science is Rock & Roll" TV Special, 8/14/2011
                   Part 1 13 min  /  Part 2 7 min  /  Part 3 6 min  /  Part 4 7 min  /  Part 5 6 min  /  Part 6 5 min
                   FIRST Promo video 6 min  /  FIRST Lego League Promo 3 min
                   FIRST Team Chairman's Award Carl Hayden HS Falcon Robotics Team 842 (Team-Made Video) 6 min
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07-2011  Astronomy is in Golden Age  Interview with STSCI's Dr. Robert Williams  /  12 min  /  Alternate YouTube site
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06-2011  U.S. Navy STEM Forum       Presentation Materials
                 > Speaker: FIRST Robotics Dean Kamen  /  54 min
                 > Forum Highlights:  Day 1 6 min  /  Day 2 6 min
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06-2011  Brian Cox Lecture: The Universe  1 hr, 16 min  /  University of Manchester Lecture
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06-2011  Brian Cox on Science & Exploration  /  TED  /  Part 1  7 min  /  Part 2  10 min
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06-2011  Brian Cox Discusses Science with Jim Al-Khalili 1.5 hours
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05-2011  Central Coast STEM Education Forum  05/24/2011
                 > Keynote - General Susan Helms  /  Vandenberg AFB  /  Part 1 13 min /  Part 2 12 min /  Part 3 13 min
                 > Keynote - Chris Roe  /  California STEM Learning Network  /  Part 1 15 min  /  Part 2 14 min
                 > Forum Attendee Pop-Ups  /  Part 1 14 min  /  Part 2 7 min
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05-2011  STEM Education through FIRST Robotics  /  Morgan Freeman  /  3 min
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05-2011  Michio Kaku "The Secret Weapon of American Science" (Why America is in trouble)  /  3 min
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05-2011  Education in America: Don't Fail Me    STEM education through FIRST Robotics experience
                   Part 1  9 min  /  Part 2  9 min  /  Part 3  8 min  /  Part 4  6 min  /  Part 5  5 min  /  Part 6  6 min
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04-2011  Brian Cox Interview: The Value of Big Science 1 hour
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02-2011  U.S. Science Education and Global Competitiveness  /  Bruce Fuchs, Director of the NIH Office of Science
                   Education  /  Part 1 41 min  /  Part 2  46 min
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02-2011  US Competitiveness and Innovation in the 21st Century  /  Chuck Vest, President, National Academy of
                   Engineering  /  45 min
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01-2011  That Used To Be Us:  How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
                   Thomas Friedman  /  IBM THINK Forum  /  32 min
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01-2011  Google Science Fair 1/11/11   PR Video 6 min  /  Opening Event 1.4 hours  /  Closing Event 1 hour
                   Q&A Panel 17 min  /  Student Tesca Fitzgerald Presentation 12 min  /  Dean Kamen PR video 3 min
                   Particle Physicist Tara Shears Interview 4 min
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09-2010  Third World America  /  Arianna Huffington  /  50 minutes
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08-2010  The Flat World and Education  /  Linda Darling-Hammond  /  1.2 hours
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04-2010  FIRST Robotics Dean Kamen at TEDMED  1 hour
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03-2010  Neil deGrasse Tyson on Need for NASA  /  Director, Hayden Planetarium  /  5 min
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xx-2010  National Academies Report  /  Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Cat. 5
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09-2009  Neil deGrasse Tyson on Education  /  Director, Hayden Planetarium  4 min
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07-2009  Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Moon Landing and Space Exploration  7 min
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06-2009  The Opportunity Equation: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for Citizenship and
                   the Global Economy    Follow-Up Report in 2011:  Growing Opportunity
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02-2009  Congressional Hearing  /  Beyond the Classroom: Informal STEM Education  1.5 hours  /  PDF Transcript
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01-2009  Have We Risen Above the Gathering Storm?  /  NSF /  Norman Augustine  /  58 min
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10-2008  John Glenn Addresses 2008 NSTA Conference  7 min
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03-2008  Congressional Hearing  / 
Competitiveness and Innovation on the Committee's 50th Anniversary with
                   Bill Gates of Microsoft  /  2 hours  /  PDF Opening Statement  /  PDF Transcript

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01-2008  How Not To Ruin Your Life  /  American Crisis  /  Ben Stein  /  Commonwealth Club  /  1.2 hours
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xx-2008  The Ends of the Universe:  Hubble's Final Chapter  Science Channel  /  44 min  /  HD 
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11-2007  The World is Flat 3.0   /  Thomas Friedman  /  MIT  /  48 min
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10-2007  Earth-Rise Over the Moon from Japan's KAGUYA Spacecraft  /  2.5 min  /  HD
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05-2007  FIRST Robotics Dean Kamen at TED  22 min
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xx-2007  National Academies Report:
                   Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
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09-2000  U.S. Department of Education Report  PDF  Before Its Too Late - A Report to the National Commission on
                   Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century

Excellent Special Videos

Deep Space Explorer  1 hour  /  HD  /  Deep space Images set to music
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HDTV from Space  /  23 min  /  HD    Space shuttle launch; First HDTV from space shuttle and ISS
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Astronomy 101 with Bruce Betts, Physics 195, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Spring 2012
Excellent 1.5-hour sessions,  News Article
Session 1  Tour of the Solar System and the Night Sky
Session 2  Space Exploration
Session 3  Moon, Mercury and Planetary Surfaces
Session 4  Venus, Earth, Mars Intercomparison
Session 5  Mars
Session 6  Asteroids and Near Earth Objects
Session 7  Jupiter, Satellites, Magnetospheres
Session 8  Saturn and its Rings
Session 9  Uranus and Neptune
Session 10  Pluto, Minor Planets, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, Solar Wind, Comets, and the Solar System
Session 11  Exo-Planets
Session 12  The Sun and Stars

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Apollo 11 40th Anniversary Tribute July 2009  /  John Glenn Lecture  /  National Air & Space Museum  /  Photo
  Part 1 - General Jack Dailey, Director, National Air and Space Museum
  Part 2 - Dr. G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
  Part 3 - Senator John H. Glenn, Mercury 6 and STS-95 Astronaut
  Part 4 - Chris Kraft, former Johnson Space Center Director, Flight Director for Mercury and Gemini
  Part 5 - Dr. Buzz Aldrin, Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 Astronaut
  Part 6 - General Michael Collins, Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 Astronaut
  Part 7 - Neil Armstrong, Gemini 8 and Apollo 11 Astronaut   Video Not Available
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Tribute to Carl Sagan
  01.  The Symphony of Science  several music videos based on Carl Sagan and fellow scientists
  02.  Carl Sagan, Neil de Grasse Tyson and NASA Team Up!  1 min  /  HD
  03.  Carl Sagan Final Interview with Charlie Rose May 1996:  Part 1  10 min  /  Part 2  7 min  /  Part 3  3 min
  04.  Carl Sagan Speaks Zeitgeist  17.5 min  /  HD
  05.  The Carl Sagan Ensemble:  Part 1  3 min  /  Part 2  2.5 min  /  HD
  06.  Carl Returns to his 6th Grade Class  3 min  /  HD
  07.  Imagination  6.5 min  /  HD
  08.  Scaling Heaven Human Exploration of Space  10.5 min  /  HD
  09.  Star Stuff  9 min  /  HD
  10.  Time Travelers  9 min  /  HD
  11.  Telos  11 min  /  HD
  12.  Heresy  10 min  /  HD
  13.  The Frailty of Knowledge  11 min  /  HD
  14.  Heaven and Hell  10 min  /  HD
  15.  Darkness  10 min  /  HD
  16.  You Are Here  10 min
  17.  The Theory of Everything  11 min  /  HD
  18.  The Gift of Apollo  10 min  /  HD
  19.  To The Sky  10.5 min  /  HD
  20.  The Blessing and the Curse  11.5 min  /  HD
  21.  The Great Demotions  11 min  /  HD
  22.  A Universe Not Made for Us  9 min  /  HD
  23.  Traveller's Tales  8 min  /  HD
  24.  Wanderers 10 min  /  HD
  25.  The Backbone of Night  8 min  /  HD
  26.  The Edge of Forever  9.5 min  /  HD
  27.  Consider Again That Pale Blue Dot  9.5 min  /  HD
  28.  We Humans Are Capable of Greatness  3 min  /  HD
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Sagan Series Tribute
  Part 1.  The Frontier is Everywhere  3 min  /  HD
  Part 2.  Life Looks for Life  4 min  /  HD
  Part 3.  A Reassuring Fable  4 min  /  HD
  Part 4.  Per Aspera Ad Astra (Through Hardship to the Stars)   2 min  /  HD
  Part 5.  Decide to Listen  5 min  /  HD
  Part 6.  End of An Era: The Final Shuttle Launch  6 min  /  HD
  Part 7.  The Long Astronomical Perspective  4 min  /  HD
  Part 8.  The Gift of Apollo  4.5 min  /  HD
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Physicist Richard Feynman      Richard Feynman
  Feynman Series - Part 1 - Beauty  5 min
  Feynman Series - Part 2 - Honours  4 min
  Feynman Series - Part 3 - Curiosity  4 min
  The Pleasure of Finding Things Out  49 min
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BBC  Full-length programs in HD
  BBC Horizon: Black Holes  1 hour
  BBC Horizon: The Hunt for Higgs  1 hour
  BBC Horizon: Solar Storms The Threat to Earth  1 hour
  BBC Horizon: Seeing Stars  Part 1 15 min  /  Part 2 15 min  /  Part 3 15 min  /  Part 4
14 min
  The Planets - Part 1  1999  /  49 min
  The Planets - Part 2  1999  /  49 min
  The Planets - Part 3  1999  /  49 min
  The Planets - Part 4  1999  /  49 min
  The Planets - Part 5  1999  /  49 min
  The Planets - Part 6  1999  /  49 min
  The Planets - Part 7  1999  /  49 min
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IMAX  full-length programs in HD
  Cosmic Voyage  1996  /  36 min
  Destiny in Space   1994  /  40 min   Space shuttle and space flight
  Fighter Pilot - Operation Red Flag  2004  / 48 min
  Hail Columbia!   1982  /  35 min   Space shuttle and space flight
  Mission to MIR  1997  /  40 min
  SolarMax  2000  /  38 min
  Space Station  2002  /  47 min
  The Dream is Alive  1985  /  36 min  Space shuttle and space flight
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National Geographic  full-length programs in HD
  Inside the Milky Way  2010  /  1 hour
  Journey to the Edge of the Universe  1.5 hours

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