Stars and STEM Stories

In July 2018, a group of five Swiss students and their teacher, Andreas Schmid, from Kantonsschule Olten traveled to Killarney, Ireland, for the 2018 GLOBE Learning Expedition (GLE) to present their scientific research projects to hundreds of other international students, teachers, and scientists.  >>

In March 2018, GLOBE students at the Lexington School for the Deaf (located in East Elmhurst, New York, USA) began participating in the GLOBE U.S. Air Quality Student Research Campaign. Raising their focus to the sky, the high school students soon became adept at using GLOBE’s atmosphere protocols and Calitoo sun photometers to gather their elevated observations. Along the way, they also discovered their ability – as individuals and as a team – to make significant contributions to science.  >>

GLOBE hydrosphere protocols in hand, and practical purpose at heart, students in Newport News, Virginia, USA, increased their insight into how children in other parts of the world live with, and sometimes without, readily available water.  >>

From January through March 2018, students at the Ibn Rushd Primary School in Qalansuwa, Israel, dug in to examine the impacts of an invasive species, the Acacia Saligna tree, on local native species.  >>

During the GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Regional Meeting, which was held in Israel in November 2017, community members came together to learn, teach, and expand their horizons – and ended up coming away with a sense of community linked by common values.  >>

From 10-16 September, participants came together for a six-day GLOBE Learning Expedition in the cities of Kathmandu and Pokhara in Nepal.  >>

The GLOBE students’ poster presentation section was one of the highlights in this exhibition.  >>

On 01 August 2017, Deborah Klepp from the U.S. State Department visited Muhu Pohikool (Muhu Basic School) to learn how The GLOBE Program works in an Estonian school, and to learn from the students how their methods can be implemented in other schools around the world.  >>

A GLOBE training conducted in April (24-28) at the “Addressing Environmental Shocks and Stresses Workshop” at Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.C., focused on strengthening the already strong collaborative bonds between the two programs.  >>

During the conference the students learned how they can take part in practical science and how to view and analyze data collected from around the world.  >>