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
