Monthly Archives: June 2019

Few efforts have been made to address how environmental, infrastructure, and cultural aspects of the Arctic change together nor to bring students of the Artic to research institutions. This project seeks to bring Artic youth into the conversation around these issues. Young people from Arctic communities will travel to the University of Virginia for a…

Residents of Tutuila, America Samoa have noted that their primary concern about preparing for climate change was not additional hard infrastructure but rather more education and outreach about the basics of climate change and the relationship atmospheric and earth sciences have to cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and biological sciences. This project will create a long-term,…

This program is focused on using commercial spacecraft to open the scientific world to public school students who would otherwise not have extensive exposure to the scientific community. The intention is to develop and fly a student scientific experiment on the Blue Origin New Shepard commercial suborbital spacecraft, engaging the entire PS185 (Brooklyn, NY) Elementary…

Two WiSci camps will be held in the summer of 2019, one in Kosovo, and one in Estonia, with the objective of bringing together industry leaders in science and technical fields to promote and encourage young women from around the world to pursue STEAM career paths. This project will develop NASA curriculum aligned with WiSci…

Girls’ Outdoor Adventure in Leadership and Science (GOALS) at UC Davis seeks to cultivate and embolden the next generation of STEM leaders through a free, immersive, field-based summer science program inclusive of all high school girls. The program begins with a 2-week backpacking program in the summer, during which participants develop research projects, and is…

The project aims to engage communities around schools in areas at risk for socio-environmental disasters and increase their perception of the potential risk. Through sharing scientific knowledge to aid their protection, sustainability and resilience, these communities will be able to better practice citizen science. This will be accomplished through two seminars with 200 school in…

Although Lagos State has an abundance of aquatic resources, wetland ecology is not a well-promoted subject in secondary schools. This project would engage secondary school students in twelve schools in outreach programs coinciding with major environmental days. The outreach programs will include both a lecture component and printed materials, such as pamphlets, encouraging students to…

The goal of this project is to facilitate participation of under-represented minorities as students in the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). JIRP is a rigorous program where students spend eight weeks traversing the Juneau Icefield, learning about Arctic system science and conducting research projects along the way. There are many strong students from diverse backgrounds…

This project is focused on bringing together approximately 350 school-age students in Central Nigeria, ages 10-16, to interest them in a career in the geosciences and establish a student-mentor program for any who want to pursue that interest. Running over the course of 10 months, the objectives are to spark a passion for the geosciences…

Reclaiming STEM will be the second annual science communication workshop, aimed at providing training for diverse scientists to learn how to communicate their science at the intersection of research and social justice. The workshop will host 200 scientists in Fall 2019 and is focused on teaching them how to effectively communicate their science in a…