Education/Telecon 2019-10-17

October 17, 2019 @ 2pm ET

Participants: Megan Carter, Becky Reid, James Acker, Elizabeth Joyner, Nancy Hoelbelheinrich, Robert Downs, Shelley Olds, Becky Reid, Erin Robinson, Margaret Mooney , Agbeli Ameko, Catherine Cramer

Agenda:

1. News from Program Committee

• Budget has been approved! See link below.
  • Budget update—Approved! Click here to view
• Summer Meeting in Burlington, VT
  • Have contact in Burlington--- may be able to help us with contacts for the summer workshop

2. AGU

• GIFT workshop?
  • Are sessions chosen? Contact Carla?
  • Share-a-thon - share our coding project; advertising the summer workshop; Advertise out to lunches;
• ESIP will have a Data fair and data help desk - share our resources; volunteer booth time ; has ‘workshop’ space in booth area
• AGU Poster update
  • Abstract ID: 631602
  • Abstract Title: Fostering Computational Skills in Secondary Education Earth Sciences through Jupyter Notebooks
  • Final Paper Number*: ED53F-0903
  • Presentation Type: Poster
  • Session Date and Time: Friday, 13 December 2019; 13:40 - 18:00
  • Session Number and Title: ED53F: Linking Education and Research with Jupyter II Posters
  • Location: Moscone South, Poster Hall
• Folder for AGU abstract and poster https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1daWEVc2qWhKq29xwvgHiKkk-P-xdRxe0

3. ESIP Winter sessions due Oct 18

• Accelerating convergence of earth and space data in teaching and learning through participatory design. Link to session proposal from NEREID - Catherine Cramer
  • Tools: online; software;
• Making connection with local educators and getting input
• Note: could someone move this folder on the drive be moved under the Workshops, sessions, meetings folder?
• Teachers to contact
  • John Leck
  • Donnette Dais - ERJ to reach out after receives the flyer from Margaret
  • Patrick Rowley- James Richmond Center https://www.ccboe.com/sciencecenter/staff/
• E. Joyner’s contribution, per Trena Ferrell’s (GSFC) recommendation:
  • Reid Temple Christian Academy ..Dr. Donnette Dais. https://www.reidtempleacademy.com/
    • Dr. Donnette Dais <ddais@reidtempleacademy.com>
    • 1-2 teachers to attend one day of the ESIP meeting
      • Supported to pay substituted for $150
      • Long term relationship at the schools (adopt a school)
      • Support the same school
      • Margaret to write up a blurb for teachers and for them to their administrators
      • Attend Catherine’s working session to develop tools for teachers
        • Teachers provide input

4. NEREID workshop - Nov 21 - 22; Greenbanks Observatory

• Catherine Cramer will send more info

5. (potential) Collaboration with ESIP Lab project :

• Weather station development & deployment as a data science & earth science learning tool, Jupyter notebook - how the data we collect can help decision making, engineering design.
• Project summary - Community Open Data and Experimental Mesonet (CODE-M) | Agbeli Ameko, NCAR

6. Interest in becoming directly involved in committee: Keith Maull & Catherine Cramer

7. Session collaboration with Catherine Cramer. Accelerating convergence of earth and space data in teaching and learning through participatory design. Click Here

8. Looking ahead ..

• ESIP Summer Meeting in Burlington, VT
• July 7-10, 2020

9. Presentation by Agbeli Ameko

• They want help with user testing of the stations, building NGSS lesson plans and activities, distribution to educators.