A postcard from the US - day zero
Education in Chemistry visits the National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) conference in the US and it's big!
It's well known that things are bigger in the US: cars, TVs and food are popular examples. So it is with science education conferences - the National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) annual conferences are about 10 times the size of similar events held by the Association for Science Education (ASE) in the UK.
But bigger doesn't necessarily mean better, so we thought it was time that Education in Chemistry took a trip across the pond to see how things are done in the land of the free.
The flying time to the location for NSTA 2013 from London is about 11 hours in total. Despite the best efforts of the British rail system, this makes the annual pilgrimage to Reading or Liverpool for the ASE a mere hop in comparison.
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