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ASA Member News July 2017

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July 2017

Google Named ASA Corporate Partner

Financial contributions help deliver important programs to ASA members like you, students, teachers, and the public. The American Statistical Association is therefore proud to recognize Google as an ASA Corporate Partner in appreciation of its generous philanthropic contributions to ASA programs and awards. Google is also a sponsor of the Caucus for Women in Statistics reception at JSM 2017 and a platinum sponsor of the 2017 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference.

ASA Promotes K-12 Statistics Education at School Counselors Conference

In an effort to expand awareness of the value of statistics education, the ASA recently attended the American School Counselors Association annual conference in Denver, Colorado. Paul Buckley, Elizabeth Ribble, and Nels Grevstad represented the ASA at the event, where they promoted the ASA’s public education campaign, ThisIsStatistics, and shared educational resources with school counselors from across the country.

Learn more about the ASA's outreach to school counselors.

ASA to Offer Free Media Training Workshop in October

The media is always looking for experts who can explain and help others visualize quantitative data and insights, so we are excited to offer you the opportunity to participate in a free media training workshop Friday, October 13, in Bethesda, Maryland. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2017 ASA Symposium on Statistical Inference at the same hotel, but participation is not limited to conference attendees.

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