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MAVEN Educator Ambassador Project

The MAVEN Educator Ambassador Program will provide professional development workshops for middle school teachers on the topics of magnetism and spectroscopy, and how they connect to MAVEN science. (Courtesy UC Berkeley)

The MAVEN Educator Ambassador (MEA) project focuses on topics that are fundamental to space science. This national project provides inspiring material on magnetism and spectroscopy for middle school and high school students. The project relies on a train-the-trainer approach: MAVEN personnel train teachers in the project, and those teachers go on to train a second tier of teachers.

Our MEA project provides:

  1. Two week-long workshops, one in the summer of 2013 and one in the summer of 2015
  2. Follow-on support for the teachers as they present hour-long to daylong workshops to additional educators in the year following their training
  3. Community-building between all the MEAs in the project through social networking and a weekly MEA email newsletter

As part of the project, we will be developing new lessons and video interactives that fit within an existing middle school program called “Project Spectra!” We will be piloting these lessons with interested schools, in addition to the MEA professsional development outlined above.

For more information about the MEA project, or if you are a teacher seeking to add your name to our professional development distribution list, please email epomail@lasp.colorado.edu with “MAVEN Educator Ambassador inquiry” in the subject line.

Workshop Announcement

Join the Team for NASA’s Next Mission to Mars!

A workshop for middle and high school teachers

When:
Monday, July 8 – Friday, July 12, 2013

Where:
University of California, Berkeley—Space Sciences Laboratory, 7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

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Institutional Agreement (required for acceptance into program)
 
Registration deadline for this workshop is now closed.