Education/Telecon 2019-08-15

August 15, 2019 @ 3pm ET

Participants: Becky Reid, Shelley Olds, Elizabeth Joyner, Patricia Reiff, Megan Carter

Agenda:

Budget Day!

1. Data tool - Out to Lunch -

Margaret not leading
Fall: Pat - Transit of Mercury… early November … Before Nov 11 ;
- Hold it Wed 6th
- Live webcam
- Crosses the middle of the Sun
- Next is 2032
Kalo - Spring - 20 minute
Becky to enlist
Rotate the moderating
We’ll talk more next meeting

2. Learn to code initiative -

Continuing? Yes. to be planned in detail.
Goal for attending Vermont meeting is to give folks a taste of what they could do at the upcoming summer meeting
ESIP Hub is no longer available. We could use Google Collaboratory?
LuAnn has an idea for showing how to use coding to request info from ACIS (applied climate information service) to produce climate graphs. Environment may be less constrained.
Another idea: Take Jupyter code (python) and turn it into block coding. (Jupyter environment is pretty complex and has LOTS of dependencies.
We also have Scratch / Blockly examples from Becky. Coding to explore Earth / Data Science.
Shelley is working on a tephra/volcanic example through Concord Consortium.
Here’s another tool that we could use: https://codap.concord.org
Budget:
- Winter meeting working session (2 + chair) [2 sessions same $$]
- Instructional / curriculum to build the in-between steps to get teachers from scratch to Jupyter
  - How this relates to ESS
  - Pull in myNASAdata?
  - Use images (from GOES / myNASAdata) to linking to make these happen
- Make contact with a local science teacher (coordinator/supervisor) / after school leader to bring to the Winter Meeting (Substitute teacher funding + local travel)
Summer teacher workshop
- This is part of the main ESIP budget - remind Erin that it goes into the main budget.

3. Share ESIP learning resources via workshops/ conferences

Adopt a school in DC area - underserved
- Boy’s & Girl’s club, Girl’s Inc;
- We bring geoscience data science and Jupyter notebook - to understand the world works ;
- Girl (/Boy) Scouts - STEM badges & journeys (longer more involved);
- How to get a contact in the DC - GIFT workshop teacher list from AGU 2018? … Elizabeth has a contact - - Dr. Gofrey Rangasammy - science supervisor K-12 for Prince George’s County School.
  - Dr. Godfrey Rangasammy
  - Science Supervisor, K-12
  - godfreyr@pgcps.org
- Goals / objectives before reaching out…
- Budget: [stipend that covers substitutes] Or bring in a few teachers for observation and feedback for winter meeting
Fall conferences - with focus on local conference will be close to next ESIP Summer Meeting
- Budget: travel for 4
Present @ AGU - Budget: for 1 for 2 nights

4. ESIP Ed PocketLab - we don’t need to put it in the 2020 budget since its already allocated.