Farewell to Jodi Creasap Gee

and her experiences working in diverse secondary school classrooms will bring new ideas for identifying and helping to address teacher and school administrator challenges with PlantingScience to make the program more accessible and impactful.

Jodi Creasap Gee leaves BSA after 6 years of foundational work building and improving the PlantingScience 2.0 platform and community as part of the NSF Digging Deeper Grant.

We would like to express appreciation for the work Dr. Jodi Creasap Gee has done in her role as Education Technology Manager on behalf of the BSA and PlantingScience communities. Jodi was hired in 2015 to work on the BSA’s PlantingScience: Digging Deeper education research grant (DIG) (NSF DRK12 #1502892). She has spent the past 6 years developing and improving the PlantingScience website and program, along with helping out with other Education Technology needs of the society.

Under Jodi’s management, PlantingScience has made many necessary updates and improvements to the website; doubled our capacity; improved our e ciency at managing large numbers of student teams, and helped hundreds of teachers, mentors, and students work better together in a thriving, active, online mentoring community. During Jodi’s time with the BSA, PlantingScience has worked with almost 300 teachers, over 750 scientist mentors and over 9300 students.

Jodi’s creative troubleshooting and responsive help to the PlantingScience community have established a great deal of trust that outcomes for students will be met by participating, and that they will get the help they need to have a good experience. Participating teachers are so enthusiastic about the program that they regularly recruit new teachers to participate

e BSA appreciates the work of Jodi Creasap-Gee (right), seen here with Catrina Adams and BSA Executive Director Heather Cacanindin.