Education/Telecon 2018-06-13

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

June 13, 2018 Monthly meeting Agenda - Find our running notes Google Doc here. At this point we have these agenda items:

Attendees: Patrick Chandler Shelley Olds LuAnn Dahlman Elizabeth Joyner Becky Reid Kalo Haslem Carla McAuliffe Margaret Mooney Erin Robinson


Agenda Team To do: Connect to your teacher networks in Arizona (and region)

Excom updates

Slack as communication tool

lab@esipfed.org to send the slides

Workshop updates?

Combo of Scratch and Ozobot

Group fun activity Thinkfun Rover: https://www.thinkfun.com/products/rover-control/

Evening Zoom w/ Carla & Elizabeth (Central time)

Teacher recruitment: Individual calls to recruit teachers (went out to ASTA teachers, June 1) - cap of 15 (... 20 officially)

Sent to AZ Association of Science Teachers - emailed and Facebook

Sent cold emails to AZ science teachers

Sent to AZ A ST - it was in newsletter on page 24 (Under computing)


Sent to local teacher who posted to local list

Will NESTA Facebook post again

Patrick: sending to CLEAN network again

To send the workshop teachers: Teachers to bring: computers & iPads/tablet: there are apps for Ozobots , (scratch on laptops / Google chromebooks). Watch the May Out2Lunch. Bring your own dongles for USB plugs)

Start of discussion of 2019 budget items… Teacher Workshop

Presenting @ NSTA (have an abstract in) - St. Louis (National): April. 11–14, 2019 (

Budget to help w/ regional shareathon

Charlotte!!! There will be a share a thon -- Kalo?... Regional NSTA - Charlotte - put in budget to help offset costs for Kalo as ESIP person

Reno: Oct. 11–13, 2018

National Harbor (MD): Nov. 15–17, 2018

Charlotte: Nov. 29–Dec. 1, 2018

Consider a regional for 2019

GSA conference - present & great for recruitment for next summer workshop (too late for 2018)

You can do even more if you come to the summer workshop

Sponsoring SACNAS student - Earth Science focus ($1000) (http://sacnas.org/)

? Budget to present @ GIFT workshop - in DC, deadline Aug 31

Application: https://serc.carleton.edu/nesta/gift.html

? Budget to support student @ EER ? ... ESIP summer workshop location (under discussion) … could it be with EER?

To continue this in our Fall discussion - more Earth Science,

Consider: classic tools of NOAA (Climate portal) and NASA (90 World View)

My NASA Data - redesigned! - rolling out

Giovani - restructured! - more engaging for non-scientists - more data layers

Remember that NESTA will sponsor, support, and promote

Kalo haslem (to All): https://youtu.be/GYwoy8D9cSY

ESIP in Australia -- might be a connection with scientists in the classroom in Australia

Contact: Vicki Stavropoulos, CSIRO Education & Outreach vick.stavropoulos@csiro.au (https://www.csiro.au/en/Education)

Scientist - Teacher partnerships @ AGU (w/ NESTA, NAGT sponsorship) - maybe the Australia ESIP would be interested in being involved.

No Call in July Yes to call in August