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Brice Marsh of Madison, Alabama is the Founder and Executive Director of Teen Think Tanks of America, Inc.; and he is a Senior Computer Scientist with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. He is an author and lecturer, and he is a certified professional facilitator of electronic meetings using a type of collaborative technology sometimes referred to as electronic brainstorming. He has led hundreds of meetings involving executives, scientists and engineers in several governmental agencies and is recognized throughout NASA as an expert in his field.

Brice has served as a member of the International Association of Facilitators; and he has served on the Industry Advisory Board for the National Science Foundation's research and development program at the University of Arizona. He is listed in Who’s Who in Information Technology; and he has more than 39 years' professional experience including a career with IBM Corporation; also serving as Vice President of ITC/DeltaCom; and as a computer scientist with CSC.

A graduate of Auburn University and a former schoolteacher, Brice has long believed that teenagers have more to say than they are being allowed to say. He is credited with leading the world's first Teen Think Tank on School Violence in 1998. Since then, he has conducted Teen Think Tanks in a number of cities across America. The motto for Teen Think Tanks is "Giving Teens a Voice… a listening ear … a caring heart … and a helping hand".

Brice has been recognized at conferences in Hawaii, Canada, Washington, DC; Harvard University; and in a number of other cities across America. While employed by CSC, he received the CSC President’s Excellence Award for his work with the Teen Think Tanks™.

In 2002, Marsh published his first book entitled: "Unleashing Teen Brainpower - Our most valuable untapped resource". This book features the words, ideas, and recommendations from a number of teens from earlier teen think tank sessions.

Brice also facilitated a major portion of the 2002 National Youth Summit on Preventing Violence in Washington, D.C. This event was attended by 840 youth invited by the National Crime Prevention Council from across America. Youth ambassadors were selected to work with Brice, using the think tank technology, to produce immediate results of their findings and recommendations. These 34 selected ambassadors produced and delivered their policy recommendations to the President, the U.S. Attorney General, the Department of Homeland Security, and both houses of Congress. (To see their recommendations, go to TTT homepage www.teenthinktanks.org and click on McGruff, the Crime Dog.)

In November, 2002, Brice was invited to speak at the 5^th Annual Conference on Violence Prevention at Harvard University. His topic, “Rapid Response for Survivors of Violence” described an innovative collaborative process to enhance grief counseling following an incident of school violence, or some other critical incident debriefing session.

In 2003, Brice was invited to Washington to meet former president George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara, as well as Dr. Bill Bennett, Secretary of Education under Reagan. There he discussed the program and expressed his hope that, with the necessary funding, the program could expand nationally. Later, he was invited to a White House Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives where he received professional advice and counsel concerning grant writing and fund raising.

Currently, Brice is working, after hours, to use the TTT technology to establish a Community Collaboration Center in the 3D Immersive Theater located at the Sci-Quest Science Center in Huntsville, Alabama. (See www.sci-quest.org)

Messages intended for Brice or for Teen Think Tanks should be addressed to bricemarsh@aol.com.