Geoscience Career Ambassador Training (GeoCAT)
The Geoscience Career Ambassador Training (GeoCAT) Workshop will be held June 22-26, 2020, at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, and will focus on introducing and familiarizing educators (for teachers, advisors and 4-H volunteers) with geoscience careers in an effort to increase interest and enrollment of diverse student populations in geosciences across the state of Kansas. The GeoCAT program emphasizes recruiting and supporting under-represented students from populations in STEM fields to geoscience majors, in an effort to build a strong geoscience workforce in the future, particularly in Kansas, with industries that depend heavily on environmental and energy resources and their effective management. The GeoCAT workshop is an NAGT sponsored project and is also supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant ICER-1911590 GP-IMPACT: GeoCAT Workshop: Geoscience Careers Ambassador Training Workshop. For more information contact geocat@k-state.edu. Apply here by April 30, 2020.
Some important information about the workshop:
1- Zoom participation, and partial participation is possible.
2- Those who participate physically for the whole workshop will receive a stipend of $300.
3- Participants can earn 3 graduate credits (or less) for participating in the workshop.
4- This workshop is accepted as a Professional Development for teachers of all levels by Kansas Department of Education.
Dr. Aida Farough
Teaching Assistant Professor
HydroLearn Fellow: https://www.hydrolearn.org/
Lead PI on GeoCAT: https://www.k-state.edu/geocat/
Department of Geology
Kansas State University
108 Thompson Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
office: 202 Thompson Hall
kansas association of teachers of science