July, 2009--Co-Facilitator, ISTE NECC09 Second Life Playground, Washington, D.C.

October, 2006--Conference proposal review committee for the International Society for Technology in Education's SIGIVC-related presentations for NECC 2007.

January, 2005-Present--Conference development team for Keystone2005. The Keystone Conference is the nation's premier K12 Interactive Videoconferencing gathering.

December, 2004-Present--Appointed to the Pulse Committee of the Global Nomads Group, an international agency dedicated to bringing together culturally diverse youth from all over the world by means of Interactive Videoconferencing and project collaboration.

2004-present--Board of Directors for TASC (the Tennessee Arts and Sciences Consortium)

2003-present--Progam manager and site facilitator, Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory "VIA Dyer" (Videoconferencing Interactions with Astronomers from Dyer Observatory) series, through Vanderbilt Virtual School and the Vanderbilt University Center for Science Outreach Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory

2001-present--Teacher-in-Residence, Vanderbilt University Center for Science Outreach

2003-present--Advisory Committee, American International University Masters in Education Program

2001-2005--Board of Directors, Vanderbilt University's Friends of the Alexander and Jean Heard Library

July, 2003--Web Manager, courtesy of Vanderbilt University Office of Science Outreach, for Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory's online presence. Participated in redesign and still responsible for videoconferencing related content

2003-present--Contributing author, techlearning.com's "Educator's Outlook" (search "Merrick")

Summer 2001--Project Development Team Member and Presenter, Vanderbilt University's SCOPE 2001 Summer Science Institute. Project Development Team Member and Presenter, Vanderbilt University Virtual School and SEPA 2001 Video Conferencing Lesson Plan Development workshop, grades 5-12. See Virtual Vanderbilt Videoconferences for more information