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Tip of the Week: Want to upload photos or videos to the GLOBE Website? Watch this demonstration video and learn how to upload today!  >>

Teachers: Join astronaut and former classroom teacher Joe Acaba, along with crewmate Paolo Nespoli, for a Facebook Live event on Monday, 16 October (at 11:05-11:35 CDT). Acaba and Nespoli will respond to questions from media, educators, and students from around the world! Submit questions ahead of time at @NASAEdu twitter using #TeacherOnBoard. Simply log on and ask questions: Maybe yours will get answered!  >>

Calling all GLOBE International STEM Network (GISN) members and STEM professional! There are many ways that you can participate in the 2018 GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS).  >>

Getting prepared to experience – and express your scientific process within – the 2018 United States Student Research Symposia (SRS)? At the SRS, students from across the United States have the opportunity to come together at one of six face-to-face regional symposia to share the results of field investigations using GLOBE program protocols. As in previous years, the SRS are open to all U.S. GLOBE students and teachers.  >>

Teachers -- are you, and your students, getting ready for the 2018 GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS)? The IVSS is a way for students from all GLOBE countries to showcase their hard work. With GLOBE, students learn the practices of science through hands-on investigations in their own communities, sparking their curiosity and interest in science. This often leads to inquiries that help solve real-world problems and further understanding of our global environment. Now it's time for your students to show the world what they've learned!  >>

Tip of the Week: The GLOBE Teacher’s Guide Search Tool allows you to search the entire Teacher’s Guide using several different search parameters.  >>

The next Phase III GLOBE ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) Student Research Campaign science and research webinar will be held on 24 October at 5 p.m. ET (9 p.m. UTC): “Water Quality.”  >>

Have you been keeping up with what’s going on in the GLOBE community? A great place to start is the new Community Blog! As a vital part of the GLOBE community, you are cordially invited to blog on the GLOBE website. Respectfully voice your opinion, ask questions, share tips and tidbits – and make meaningful connections with members of the community today!  >>

Dr. Julie Malmberg from the GLOBE Implementation Office will host an informational webinar about the 2018 GLOBE IVSS on Wednesday, 25 October, at 1:00 .p.m. MT/3:00 p.m. ET/19:00 UTC.  >>

On 25 September 2017, Samuel Watson, Charge d’Affairs of the U.S. Embassy on behalf of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Romelle Horton, Deputy Minister for Instruction for Liberia’s Ministry of Education, signed an agreement to implement The GLOBE Program in Liberia at a signing ceremony in Monrovia.  >>