August 8, 2018 Participants: Shelley Kalo Becky LuAnn Patrick Carla
Agenda: Fiscal year 2019 budget items to discuss
Due Date… end of August. Continue discussions online too.
What project(s) do we want to consider?
A return to broader Earth Science? Continue w/ coding, with support from Jupyter gurus? Supporting other Edu/training components w/in ESIP?
ESIP Theme 2019 is … “Looking Forward” proposed
Yes move ahead - Coding in classroom: taking it into orbit w/ Jupyter
Is this a Special Project? Special project max = $7k
Funding for Jupyter & curriculum experts to put a learning module together in Jupyter?
Should this be an ESIP special funded project too?
Purpose: How to use coding as a tool to promote Earth Science learning/ ESIP content to school
Using ESIP Hub: Sean Gordon, Ben, Keith Maul, Ben G, others - modify some project that already exist
Frank G has good examples
ProjectGUTS - http://159.65.232.49/ https://teacherswithguts.org/welcome
Way to connect - earth science, citizen science, data
Yes - move ahead - Sponsoring students
Yes - move ahead- SACNAS student - Earth Science focus ($1000) (http://sacnas.org/)
Attach some strings - report back
Need to hear who is the recipient?
What is this money used for? Any obligation?
Where is the money sent?
Is the presented by Erin Robinson
Ask Erin to share her experience
Other/More options - to teacher, Friends of Earth Science NESTA reception @ NSTA national; (NAGT, NOAA) - certificate
No - Student @ EER ? ... ESIP summer workshop location (under discussion) …
Yes - move ahead - Teacher Workshop @ ESIP Summer Meeting
One day workshop
Partial funding (registration) comes from NOAA
ESIP funds stipends, instructors, materials
Yes - move head - Presenting @ NSTA national 2019 (have an abstract in for 1 or 2 hour session)
St. Louis (National): April. 11–14, 2019
(still waiting to hear on session proposal)
Share a thon(s)
2 people
Yes for 2 regional 2019 + Share-a-thon Charlotte-- Present @ Regional NSTA Share-a-thon @ Charlotte (Charlotte: Nov. 29–Dec. 1, 2018)
Share a thon is Friday, November 30 11AM to 12PM
What would we share? Drones, coding..
Registration for day & fuel & one night stay to help
Kalo could possibly go
FYI - Reno: Oct. 11–13, 2018
Registration for day - & fuel & one night stay
Registration dates
Reno, NV: Early bird: Aug. 31, 2018 Advanced:Reno: Sept. 21, 2018
Charlotte, NC:Early bird: Oct. 19, 2018 Advanced: Nov. 9, 2018
FYI - National Harbor (MD): Nov. 15–17, 2018
Early bird 190 full/170 one day; advanced 200/180 one day
Dates due:
Yes - 2+1 Abstracts for Regional NSTAs + National for 2020?
Abstract funds
Typically deadline for Regional proposals is around January 15 each year
Deadline for National is approximately April 15
Locations have not been determined yet.
If 1-2 are within driving distance - do we want to present? what to present? + do the shareathon
yes 2018 AGU + No to - GIFT 2018
Hint: topic well aligned w/ NGSS and teachers can see themselves using it in the classroom, (Google Glass - cardboard - took people to Earth science
sites; Climate change sessions w/ database & activities)
Not doing - GIFT Proposal due August 31, 2018
Requires: hands on component
Science scientist / communicator
deadline Aug 31
Location: in DC
support for 2 instructors
Dates: December 10-11, 2018 (full conference: Dec 10 - 14, 2018) - maybe can help w/ ESIP booth for other days?
Application: https://serc.carleton.edu/nesta/gift.html
Let’s plan on 2019 GIFT @ AGU - in San Fran
(Ask Erin about professional meetings and presentations)
Yes - 2019 AMS
Margaret, / Carla, / Shelley(?)
no-2018 GSA conference - ?
present & great for recruitment for next summer workshop (message to participants: You can do even more if you come to the summer workshop)
Deadline 14 August, 11:59 p.m. PDT
Nov 4 - 7 in Indianapolis
Carla will be at GSA
?? 2019 GSA conference - in Phoenix in September 2019
Carla is the K-12 Program Committee Chair; Is there any way that ESIP would like to be involved? Eg short course?
Special project: PocketLab project in the classroom from Kalo Haslem
Had been a FUNding Friday submission
Details: see below
ESIP Finance Committee Special Projects Request for Proposals: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b3ZZ7pvDHsx9Qf8wv- 9VXi8IEdm7MLSmBNGQ_Elk1b0/edit#heading=h.ydm2yiiyco2
Out 2 Lunch
4 sessions in the fall; 4 in the spring
Margaret sending invites
Your ideas!!
2. Please do your summer meeting expenses!
Send to Shelley & staff@esip.org Slides & Pics - if you need the link, I will send it (its a public link so I don’t want to post it here, a public viewable doc)
3. Summer workshop recap - lessons learned? Reflections?
Expenses
4. Details - Special project: PocketLab project in the classroom from Kalo Haslem PocketLab Project Presentation
Initial lesson Ideas:
Activities would be published multiple places: ESIP, sensor website (w/ attribution to ESIP), etc
Future activities could tie data collected w/ remote sensed data
Possible citizen science focus
Use with past focuses such as drones and coding
Lending library & permanent ‘donation’?
Projects from 2017-2018
Extra notes: Encourage to make dates for summer meeting soon
