Location: Monterrey, CA
Workshop Dates: 30 July - 1 August 2013
Summary:
A three-day professional development workshop, sponsored by Lockheed Martin, to share polar science and technology in the form of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) for Antarctic science.
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Overview
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This three-day professional development workshop involving teachers and scientists was sponsored by Lockheed Martin (Antarctic Logistics Contractor) to share polar science and technology in the form of remotely operated vehicles (ROV) for Antarctic science. The ROV workshop was a collaborative, hands-on event that brought together teachers, teacher/mentors, scientists and researchers for three days, July 30-31 and August 1, 2013. The overall goals of the workshop were to provide underwater ROV training to teachers, build and test a ROV, and prepare teachers to implement classroom projects around the topics of ROVs and marine polar science.
PolarTREC alumni teachers served as the team leaders working with local middle school educators and Antarctic science team members to design working ROVs. Application of this engineering project to polar science was addressed, as well as the implementation of ROV clubs and projects at local schools. Mini-grants provided through Lockheed funding to participating teachers bringing an engineering focus into their STEM teaching through polar science and ROVs. As a result, many successful ROV projects have been implemented to their classrooms. Students of these teachers have also presented at conferences about their involvement in these ROV projects.
Teacher teams building ROVs.
Evaluation
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A full evaluation of the workshop was conducted by Goldstream Group, Inc. Participants were highly satisfied with what they had learned from the workshop, the hands-on activities that had been planned, the presentations and opportunities to share ideas and network with experts in the field and with fellow teachers. All participants have plans to take what they learned back to their schools and implement an ROV project with their students. Projects include building, testing, and collecting data using ROVs. While some teachers came to the workshop with some ROV experience, others did not. For all participants, the workshop provided the training, support, and encouragement from researchers and PolarTREC teachers that ensured a positive experience for teachers of all levels.
All participants with their completed ROV projects.
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PolarTREC Participants
Alumni teacher participants included:
Jillian Worssam
Lollie Garay
John Wood
Robin Ellwood
Betsy Wilkening
Regina Brinker
The participating Antarctic research team includes PolarTREC alumni Dr. Stacy Kim.