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.