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Come Out and Celebrate - Reaching Beyond Ourselves and Growing Strong Through Diversity!

Celebrate Goddard Day is quickly approaching. Celebrate Goddard Day is a time for appreciating the accomplishments of Goddard's Diverse workforce. Please take note and plan to attend the following events!

June 24th - Movie Day
Come and have popcorn and enjoy two movies have been selected in an effort to raise diversity awareness. These movies reflect on multiple divisions of diversity:

"Antwone Fisher" Bldg. 3 Goett Auditorium 10:00 a.m.
"A Beautiful Mind" Bldg. 8 Auditorium 1:00 p.m.

June 25th - Drama Day
All NASA Goddard personnel are invited to bring their lunch and enjoy a live performance entitled, "Invisible Diversity Conflicts: "The Role of Emotional Intelligence" presented by Orlando-Ward & Associates, Inc. of San Diego, CA.

This event will begin 12:30 p.m. in the Building 3 Goett Auditorium. This lively interactive show will illustrate typical diversity assumptions, biases and stereotypes, which point out subtle yet all too real behaviors that occur in the workforce. The entertaining scenarios will include introductory discussions as well as examine the main messages and concepts of diversity within each scene.

June 26th - "Celebrate Goddard" Day
9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. on the Mall (Grassy area between Bldg. 8 and Bldg. 3) This is the day you don't want to miss! Come out and enjoy! This day will include:

Remarks from the Center Director Al Diaz and Deputy Director Bill Townsend, along with the new Assistant Administrator for Equal Opportunity Programs (EOP), Dr. Dorothy Hayden-Watkins.

Special address from Mr. George Curry, editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service and BlackPressUSA.Com.

The "Goddard Bee" Trivia Game - Are you a repository for Goddard and diversity trivia? Well sign up to play our game! The first 15 employees who contact Ginny Thompson (x6-0569) or Sue Pierpoint (x6-8058), will participate in the Goddard Bee Trivia Game on June 26th. A variety of questions about Goddard and diversity will be asked. The game format is similar to that of a spelling bee, get the question right and you move to the next round! The last person standing will be presented with the Goddard Bee trophy.

Live Entertainment:

Goddard's Child Development Center (children songs)
Mark Hubbard (Rock & Roll, Top 40)
Voices of Wallops (A Medley of National Songs)
The Tropical Ensemble (Caribbean/Steel Drums)

Arts & Crafts - Representing the following ethnic groups:

Indonesian	Nicaraguan
African American	Haitian
Native American	Asian American

A Variety of Food:

Food Station (German)	GEWA/Goddard Rec. Center (Barbecue)
Constantine's Kitchen (Greek)	Latin Flavor (Cuban/Puerto Rican)
Buddy's Crabs & Ribs (crab cakes/ribs)	Bamboo Grove (Caribbean)
Heaven Inspired Cafe' (Jamaican)	Africana Restaurant (West African)
Go Melvo (sno balls)	GEWA/Goddard Cafeteria (Korean)
True Value Inc. (Funnel Cakes)

Informative booths staffed by directorate offices, GEWA clubs and advisory groups

Karaoke Cup Competition - 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Bldg. 8 Auditorium - The directorate offices (including Code 100 staff offices), will compete to express their stories of "success through diversity" in an open forum. The method used to share these stories is entirely up the directorate or Code 100 staff offices. The story can be shared as an essay, viewgraph presentation, movie, skit, poem, dance, song, painting, sculpture, speech, etc. Everyone at GSFC participates on very diverse teams that are successful in a challenging aerospace environment. This is the time to share these success stories and increase the awareness of the richness that diversity add to NASA teams. More details to come soon, stay tuned!!