The combination of a professional staff model and an intern 

 staff model has been adopted in part by the Hassachusett's SET 

 program. Like the Massachusetts legislature, the North Carolina 

 General Assembly has a wealth of SET information available from 

 university and private sources well within its geographical area. 

 If the Massachusetts model were adopted, the North Carolina SET 

 program would operate at three basic levels. At the first level 

 the professional staff would serve as a link between legislative 

 inquiries and technical resource people in the private and public 

 sectors. Telephone conversations and correspondance with 

 science/engineering/technology experts would be the main source 

 of information for the legislators. An SET inquiry form could be 

 easily designed for use in providing written responses from the 

 science/engineering/technology experts to the legislative 

 members. 



The professional SET staff would organize and coordinate 

 university volunteers from science and technological fields to be 

 "on-call" to answer (on an informal basis) SET-related questions 

 from the members of the General Assembly. Industry volunteers 

 could also be used in this way. Accordingly, a directory 

 indicating the name, address, and the area of expertise of the 

 volunteer could be published and made available to the 

 legislators. A preliminary directory has been developed under 

 this planning grant (Exhibit C) . 



The second level of the SET program would allow deeper 

 probing into the questions and issues raised by legislators than 



