Hosting a Teacher/Student Pair
NSF Office of Polar Programs (OPP) and Education and Human Resources (EHR)
plan to expand the "Research Experiences for High School Teachers and
Students" program in the Arctic for FY97. This program selects outstanding
high school students, matches them with teachers and assigns them to Arctic
projects.
The costs are covered by OPP and EHR by supplements to funded PIs and
direct support to the teachers, allowing students and teachers to work with
Arctic researchers. In a pilot program last year, Tim Buckley, a high
school teacher from Barrow, Alaska joined PI Deb Meese, oceanographer from
CRREL, and worked on her project.
We would now like to hear from interested Arctic PIs (in all areas of
Arctic science who are funded or have reasonable expectations for funded
field programs in FY97). If you would like to volunteer to host a
teacher/student pair, please respond no later than December 15 to Tom Pyle
tpyle [at] nsf.gov with copies sent to Carole Seyfrit cseyfrit [at] nsf.gov and
Wayne Sukow wsukow [at] nsf.gov, and your program manager.
EHR will conduct a national competition to choose teachers and students.
When they have made their selections, EHR and the Arctic Section will make
decisions about the best matches of teacher/student teams to PI hosts. At
this point we are asking for a show of interest from Arctic PIs.