GLOBE News
Congratulations to the 2024–25 ENGAGE Educator Cohort!
Congratulations to the 2024–25 ENGAGE educator cohort! We celebrate the work of nineteen middle and high school educators representing schools in Arizona, California, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, and Texas who successfully completed a year-long professional development experience as part of the 2024-2025 ENGAGE (Earth, NASA, GLOBE, And Guided Explorations) GLOBE (Global Learning Observations to Benefit the Environment) Mission Earth cohort.
These dynamic educators completed a 3-day workshop in the summer of 2024 and became trained in the GLOBE clouds, tree height, tree circumference, and green-down protocols. They also learned about NASA resources, such as My NASA Data, that they incorporated in their classrooms. Throughout the school year, these seemingly tireless educators continued participating in monthly community of practice meetings.
Noreen Jafri's students from The Wardlaw Hartridge School, writing Nature Notes
The NASA Langley team was very impressed with this group. Not only did the educators join the evening meetings after a busy day of work at school, but they also joined even earlier than the scheduled time, excited to start sharing their progress implementing GLOBE!
The work of ENGAGE educators translated into many accomplishments for their students, who collectively submitted thousands of GLOBE observations. For example, the students at Champlin Park High School, led by ENGAGE teacher Kevin Molohon, submitted 4,989 observations to the GLOBE website. Impressive? We think so.
The list of accomplishments by ENGAGE teachers and their students goes on and on. Several educators brought student teams to the virtual GLOBE Student Research Symposia in May 2025.
- At The Wardlaw Hartridge School (NJ), Noreen Jafri guided two teams.
- Jim Less from Saint Rose Catholic School (OH) led three teams.
- The International School of Texas (TX) was represented by James Emley, who led students on three projects.
- Dr. Juan Pinto from Bishop Conaty-Our Lady of Loretto High School led an additional three teams.
- Mary McDonald led a team representing Fountain Hills Middle School.
If that were not enough, many ENGAGE teachers also published their students' Nature Notes on the GLOBE Mission Earth Student Research website. With sincere gratitude, we say “thank you” to our wonderful ENGAGE teachers, and we look forward to our continued collaboration!
GLOBE students from Saint Rose
Catholic School (OH), led by Jim Less