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US Ambassador to Switzerland visits a GLOBE school
Uzwil/St.Gallen (Switzerland): On 5th December 2016 the US Ambassador Suzan LeVine graced a GLOBE class and its highly active teacher, Markus Eugster, by visiting them along with her husband Eric LeVine. After the welcome speech by the commune president, Mrs. Ambassador and her husband Eric were invited to sit in the class being conducted by Markus Eugster. They received an overview of the GLOBE Program by Juliette Vogel (Country coordinator of GLOBE in Switzerland) and Ursula Frischknecht (Co-President Association GLOBE Switzerland). The presentation also laid focus on the links between GLOBE, STEM and curricula.
After the introductory session several students of Markus‘ class presented professionally their phenology research project, they had been working on during the last growing season. Following this Markus took everyone through a short introduction lesson on GLOBE weather and atmosphere. Subsequently, everyone was invited to participate in a highly animated learning activity focused on cloud cover estimation. Overall Mrs. Ambassador was very impressed by all GLOBE activities along with the student participation especially in activities that concerned environmental studies linked to STEM. In this context, the GLOBE coordinator of Switzerland – Juliette Vogel remarked: “We could perfectly show how GLOBE mission is adapted to this need.”
Towards the end, Mrs. Ambassador gave a very interesting and dynamic speech on her career, her professional development and her responsibilities and activities as an Ambassador to Switzerland. Everyone present listened to her spell bound and a large number of students were very inquisitive and posed questions to her and she was equally delighted and patient in answering them all.
Mrs. Ambassador LeVine and her family will be leaving Switzerland in January 2017, as her term comes to an end. We convey her our best wishes towards her professional and personal life. “However, we shall continue collaborating with the US Embassy towards the future events of GLOBE Program in Switzerland”, concludes Juliette Vogel.
Click on the link below to read about the media coverage of the event.
http://infowil.ch/_iu_write/artikel/2016/KW_49/Uzwil/Artikel_24518/
Authors of the photos:
Markus Eugster, Eric LeVine, Ambassador Suzan LeVine, Juliette Vogel, Ursula Frischknecht
type: globe-news
News origin: Europe and Eurasia