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Janelle Johnson is a STEM equity expert who served as PI for an NSF ITEST award, with collaborators Metropolitan State University of Denver, Community College of Denver and GLOBE. The following are excerpts from an interview in September 2020.  >>

With the creation of the GLOBE Satellites in Education Team, GLOBE Partner John Moore hopes to make a profound impact on STEM Education, create career pathways, expose the excitement to young people, and create enhanced diversity within the Geosciences. Learn more and join this amazing team of individuals!  >>

Dr. Caryn Long and her middle school students at Monteverde Academy (FL) team with NASA Langley to study contrails using GLOBE. Caryn asked her students this summer to name the most memorable thing they will take with them 20 years from now about sixth grade science. “Ninety percent said the GLOBE protocols,” she said.  >>

Although schools around the world have paused in-person learning, that hasn’t stopped GLOBE Mission EARTH (GME) teachers Jessica Kunz and Zulema Gonzales from providing GLOBE-infused STEM learning for their students. During a recent round-table virtual presentation hosted by GME, these teachers shared examples of their lesson plans and strategies to engage students' STEM (distance) learning.  >>

A Q&A with GLOBE teacher Hannah VanScotter. Hannah teaches a variety of science classes at Jefferson Montessori Academy, a K-12 school in Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA. Her students "all came away [from the SRS] talking about how they have more confidence in science, being able to do things like a big project they haven’t been encouraged to do before."  >>

A Q&A with GLOBE teacher Elodie Bourbon: Elodie teaches two sections of Earth science for ESL students. "What is different about GLOBE is the fact that students go outside, actually collect real data."  >>

The GLOBE Midwest Region Bowling Green State University (BGSU) Partnership engaged in both undergraduate GLOBE student research and collaborative Federal grant development activities to further promote GLOBE in the region and beyond.  >>

The California Academy of Sciences has designed a nationwide out-of-school-time program that inspires middle school youth to explore and connect with nature while achieving essential science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning goals. The name of this program? It’s called the Science Action Club (SAC). This hands-on citizen science program ignites curiosity, fosters workforce development skills, and builds STEM identity. From Anchorage Alaska to Albany New York, Science Action Club is implemented in 400-800 programs annually.  >>

GLOBE Partners play an integral role in the U.S. Regional Student Research Symposia (SRS) and the International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS) by mentoring students and teachers throughout the research process. GLOBE reached out to four GLOBE partnerships that provided support through holding local GLOBE symposia and/or by funding the travel and lodging of SRS teams.  >>

In spring 2019 , U.S. GLOBE sponsored its fourth annual series of Student Research Symposia (SRS) in six regions across the United States. For the first time, we followed a team of four students and two teachers from Old Town High School in Maine who attended the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic SRS in Boston on 31 May and 01 June.  >>