News - United States of America
March 2023 Updates from GLOBE Mission Earth–University of Toledo
GLOBE Mission EARTH Kids Club
This is the third year of the GLOBE Mission EARTH Kids Club, a virtual enrichment program for students in grades 3–5, offered in partnership with NASA Langley. Students are introduced to clouds, air temperature, budburst and trees. We send them a Kids Club Toolkit full of fun supplies for collecting their observations, and a notebook to keep as a science journal. The kids share out during our weekly half-hour meetings and get to interact with real scientists. The Kids Club is a unique approach to sharing GLOBE directly with students, asking only that the teachers we contact share our information with parents. This year, we have a record 62 kids signed up!
Upward Bound Program at the University of Toledo
GLOBE Mission EARTH–University of Toledo (GME–UT) is proud to be entering our third year providing GLOBE learning activities to teachers and students involved in the University of Toledo's Upward Bound Program. Through this program, high school students from around the region get to live on the university campus each week throughout the summer and participate in a multitude of academic and enrichment courses and activities. The University of Toledo is fortunate to have a river running through its campus, so the GME–UT team works with the Upward Bound participants to collect GLOBE hydrosphere data, as well as atmosphere data for our Urban Heat Island Effect/Surface Temperature effort. Each summer, we reach approximately 20 high school students and 2 teachers via this program.
NASA SEES Internship Program
GME–UT will participate for the third year in a row in the NASA SEES High School Student Internship Program by hosting two virtual courses for the interns: an Urban Heat Island Effect course and an Air Quality Initiative course. Students meet 2–3 times a week via zoom and learn about the urban heat island effect and air quality issues. They are guided through the course content via Google sites containing assignments and instructions on conducting their own research. Each year, approximately 12–15 students complete and present research projects at the NASA SEES Virtual Symposium at the end of the internship program.
Photo description: SEES interns supported by the University of Toledo
News origin: United States of America