SOUTH CENTRAL TEST CASE EOD OUTREACH ACTIVITIES • STEM Training-NASA collaboration • Science Symposium Sponsorship • • • •
Target Audience of Scientists/Researchers Support Kenai Watershed Forum + develop collaboration Promote research + Outreach + positioning Focus on science communication
• Kenai River Festival
• Target community audience • Build relationship with Kenai School District • Strengthen partnership with Kenai Watershed Forum
• Native Engagement Grant
• Diversity + Indigenous Knowledge • Communicate Science=communications project
• Kachemak Bay Research Reserve
• Education project-K-12 “Discovery Labs” + travel to rural schools • Lecture series-Kenai watershed • Develop future project with multiple collaborators
SOUTH CENTRAL EOD OUTREACH ACTIVITIES • Promotional videos • South Central test case • Community engagement
• Student workers • Partnership with UAA Honors College/Oars • 4 at UAA-full time during summer/part time during school year • 4 at KPC
• Test Case meeting-site visits • Outreach/Communication materials • Test case brochure • Google site
• Science Fair judging • Collaboration with AWIS
MICRO TO MACRO A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO STEM EDUCATION
COLLABORATION • Alaska EPSCoR (program of National Science Foundation) • University of Alaska Anchorage • • • • •
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Resilience and Adaptive Management Group Scanning Electron Microscope Lab College of Education (PACE) Geomatics, Mathematics and Biological Sciences Depts. UAA Neurobiology Faculty
UAA Planetarium & Visualization Center Applied Science, Engineering and Technology Lab (ASET) Anchorage School District Community members/organizations
• Dr. Thad Woodard-Local Pediatrician/Host of “Line 1, Your Health Connection” • Anchorage Waterways Council • Graduate and Undergraduate Students
PROMOTING SOUTH CENTRAL TEST CASE RESEARCH • Geomatics Presentation • Showcased geographic area where research occurring • Showcased methods of research used for EPSCoR
• UAA Planetarium and Data Visualization Center/NASA • Partnership for future data visualization + additional researchbased education
• Anchorage School District • Partnership for research-based education
• ASET Lab, Scanning Electron Microscope Lab • Partnership for future research/outreach
Teachers is ASET Lab learning about research
MID-SCHOOL STUDENT IN GIS TRAINING UAA GEOMATICS DEPARTMENT
SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM SPONSORSHIP KBRR, GOV’T, NON-PROF, NATIVE CORPS PARTICIPATION
DATA CATALOG OUTREACH/COLLABORATION
OUTREACH TIED TO PROJECT RESEARCH PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS/PROJECTS/PRESENTATIONS
Future plans • • • • • • • •
Partnership with KBRR Presentation of Research (KBRR ‘Brown Bags’) Native engagement grant MapTeach Kenai River Festival Booth (partnership with KBRR/KWF) Caring for the Kenai (partnership with Kenai School District) K-12 STEM Event/Teacher training Booth at Shorebird Festival