Recently the NASA Langley Center Leadership Council created a mid-term strategic objective of ‘Making NASA Cool’. They actually set several objectives along this same vein, looking into the merits Participatory Exploration, STEM education and Telling the NASA Story. Teams have been formed to make recommendations to center leadership on what the center, and what the agency can do to work towards these goals.

So far the ‘Making NASA cool’ initiative has hosted a whiteboard session, posted a blog on OpenLaRC seeking recommendations,  and created wiki for ideas on how to communicate the cool things that NASA does on a daily basis to the public. Some of the recommendations are included in the attached presentation, though it is only a start. Comments are welcomed and the feedback will help to craft an action plan of how to move forward.