OUTREACH: NOAA at Science Teacher Conference

The NOAA Office of Education was the sponsor of an exhibit booth at the annual National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) annual conference held on March 29- April 1, 2012 at the Indianapolis Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN. Nearly 10,000 science educators from around the country attended this 60th annual conference. NOAA was acknowledged for participating for over 20 years in the exhibit hall.…(read more)

GRANTEE: Citizen Scientists are "Cuckoo for CoCoRaHS"!

CoCoRaHS (the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow network) is a nationwide "citizen science" project, supported by an Environmental Literacy Grant (ELG) award, that engages thousands of people (currently over 15,000 active volunteers) of all ages in measuring and investigating precipitation. Participants use low-cost, high-capacity rain gauges along with rulers and foil-wrapped Styrofoam "hail pads" to accurately measure rain, hail and snow…(read more)

STUDENT: Melanie Harrison

The Educational Partnership Program (EPP) is pleased to announce that on May 20, 2011, Graduate Sciences Program (GSP) student Melanie Harrison completed her Doctoral Degree in Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences with a concentration in Environmental Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

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LEADERSHIP: Dr. Rebecca Blank, gives a keynote address on STEM education.

Dr. Blank's talk highlights recent reports by NOAA's sister agency in the Department of Commerce, the Economics and Statistics Bureau. The three reports examine Census data on STEM education and jobs. The reports conclude that STEM education promotes racial and ethnic equality, that growth in STEM jobs was three-times faster than non-STEM jobs and that women are still underrepresented in STEM fields. These reports can be found at: http://www.esa.doc.gov/reports.
To hear Dr. Blank's keynote address, please see http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0912_stem_education.aspx.