The document proposes the creation of a Smithsonian Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education Center at Hangar One in Silicon Valley. The center would have three main components: 1) STEM laboratory classrooms to inspire students through hands-on learning; 2) a Smithsonian West Coast distribution and exhibit center to increase access to Smithsonian resources; and 3) a science and technology conference and event center. The goal is to address the STEM skills gap, increase innovation, and sustain future generations' ability to solve grand challenges through inspiration and education. Public-private partnerships would fund transforming the historic hangar into a world-class education facility.

1. A World-Class Western Smithsonian
Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education Center
Air and Space West Educational Foundation

2. Vision and Mission
Vision
- To inspire new generations to solve
Science's and Engineering’s Grand Challenges.
 Mission
- It is the mission of the proposed Smithsonian Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education
Center; at Hangar One, a NASA national historic site and birthplace of Silicon Valley;
to engender curiosity, promote meaningful hands-on education, and inspire through
the Smithsonian's scientific, inventive, and historic treasures.
We will provide a world class model that will shape and advance thinkers who will
make the scientific and engineering discoveries in fields such as transportation,
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communications, space science, and planetary sustainability that will change the
world and that will continue to excite passion for innovation for generations to come.
Simply,
Simply our mission, is to sustain the ability for the next generation and future ones
mission
thereafter to change the world, like we did.

3. Vision and Mission
Vision
- To inspire new generations to solve
Science's and Engineering’s Grand Challenges.
 Mission
- It is the mission of the proposed Smithsonian Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education
Center; at Hangar One, a NASA national historic site and birthplace of Silicon Valley;
to engender curiosity, promote meaningful hands-on education, and inspire through
the Smithsonian's scientific, inventive, and historic treasures.
We will provide a world class model that will shape and advance thinkers who will
make the scientific and engineering discoveries in fields such as transportation,
g g p ,
communications, space science, and planetary sustainability that will change the
world and that will continue to excite passion for innovation for generations to come.
Simply,
Simply our mission, is to sustain the ability for the next generation and future ones
mission
thereafter to change the world, like we did.

4. Vision and Mission
Vision
- To inspire new generations to solve
Science's and Engineering’s Grand Challenges.
 Mission
- It is the mission of the proposed Smithsonian Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education
Center; at Hangar One, a NASA national historic site and birthplace of Silicon Valley;
to engender curiosity, promote meaningful hands-on education, and inspire through
the Smithsonian's scientific, inventive, and historic treasures.
We will provide a world class model that will shape and advance thinkers who will
make the scientific and engineering discoveries in fields such as transportation,
g g p ,
communications, space science, and planetary sustainability that will change the
world and that will continue to excite passion for innovation for generations to come.
Simply,
Simply our mission is to sustain the ability for the next generation and future
mission,
ones thereafter to change the world, like we did.

5. 3 Part Solution
1. STEM Laboratory Classrooms
(Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
2. Smithsonian West Coast Distribution
2 S ith i W tC t Di t ib ti
and Exhibit Center
3. Science, and Technology
Conference and Event Center
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6. STEM Laboratory Classrooms
1. If Silicon Valley is going to be competitive, we
must build a new vision of the role of education in
preparing students for the 21st century workforce.
 High-quality STEM education and learning environments
that
- prize innovation and imagination
- produce children who ultimately will
- germinate new inventions,
- develop new products,
- create new solutions
for many of our world's most pressing problems.

7. The STEM Crisis Today
The U S is 26th of 65 countries
U.S.
By 2014, 15 of the 20 fastest-
in student science tests.
growing professions
require STEM skills.
79% of science teachers
In 2001, less than 8% of U.S. college are not trained in
degrees were in the sciences, down from science education.
17% in 1960.
School teaching laboratories are bare, absent of
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inspiring science magic shows and cognitive
learning that switched on the sputnik generation that
took man to the moon.

8. Smithsonian West Coast Distribution
and Exhibit Center
James Smithson's Gift
James Smithson s
"I then bequeath the whole of my
property...to the United States of
America, to found at Washington,
under the name of the Smithsonian
Institution, an Establishment f the
I tit ti E t bli h t for th
increase & diffusion of
knowledge... James
knowledge "James Smithson
(1765-1829)
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9. Smithsonian’s National Impact
- SI is 70% supported by Federal
S s 0% suppo ted ede a
dollars, but the budget is shrinking
- Located primarily in Washington DC
- SI Membership from the west
is <20%
- SI Traveling exhibits come west
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<20% of the time
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Many people i th west
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will never travel to Washington DC
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10. The STEM Public Private Partnership
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11. Science, and Technology Conference and Event Center
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12. Breathing the Life back into
NASA Ames and Silicon Valley
Facility Planned Events
y G oup ac ty e ta s
Group Facility Rentals
- Air Shows - Corporate Events
- Concert Series - Film & Movie Making
- Festivals - Science & Professional Conferences
- Inside Out Late Movie Nights - Trade Shows
- National and Regional STEM Faculty - Weddings
Conferences
- Youth Club, and Non Profit Events
- Science Lecture Series
- Community Events, Rallies, Town
Hall Meetings
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13. Funding of a Western Smithsonian
Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education Center
Reskin  NASA and/or DOD F di ?
d/ Funding
 P i t F di
Private Funding
Warm Shell LLC  Historic Tax Credits (~20% of Total Cost)
 St t of California, County of Santa Clara, and Citi of Mountain View
State f C lif i C t f S t Cl d Cities f M t i Vi
Site and Sunnyvale (2020, or other)
 Corporate Branding
 Foundation Grants
Program  Corporate Branding
(Education & Exhibits)  Existing Federal Agency Education Programs
 Individual Donations
 Education and Research Specific Grants

14. A World-Class Western Smithsonian
Earth, Air, and Space STEM Education Center
Simply, our mission,
is to sustain the ability for the next generation
and future ones thereafter to change the world,
like we did.

15. We shape our buildings;
thereafter they shape us.
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--Winston Churchill