Yaara Crane (TAS 2013), Lindsay Zurawski, and Hassan Mims, all teachers from Annadale High School in Annandale, Virginia, led a week-long summer program in July for rising 11th graders. The program is inquiry-based and introduces students to new experiences… [Read more]
NOAA Corps Officers LT Madeleine Adler and LTJG Aaron Colohan visited Green Acres School in Rockville, MD on June 9, 2014. Fifth grade students in Elizabeth Bullock’s class constructed boats out of at least 50% recycled materials and raced… [Read more]
Candice Autry (TAS 2006) taught her seventh and eighth grade students at the Sheridan School in Washington DC several global concepts this year such as: climate change, sea level rise, population density, plate tectonics, and food vs feed. On… [Read more]
Elizabeth Martz (TAS 2007) and Steven King (TAS 2010) volunteered at the NOAA booth on April 26 and 27, 2014 during the third USA Science and Engineering Festival. The festival was held at the Washington DC Convention Center and… [Read more]
Seventeen NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni from the Mid-Atlantic Region (DC, DE, MD, and VA) met in Silver Spring, MD on March 14 – 17, 2014, for a three-day workshop with the following objectives: Enhance science content knowledge Share… [Read more]
Rita Salisbury (TAS 2013) volunteered to share information about the NOAA Teacher at Sea Program and demonstrated fisheries hands-on activities at NOAA’s Heritage Week Open House on Saturday, February 15, 2014 at NOAA’s Science Center in Silver Spring, MD.… [Read more]
Frank Hubacz (2013), Yaara Crane (2013) and Chris Peters (2013) presented hands-on ocean related activities and their TAS experiences at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on Wednesday, December 18, 2013. They were invited to participate in a… [Read more]
Elizabeth Bullock (TAS 2011) and Yaara Crane (TAS 2013) shared hands-on STEM activities related to their NOAA Teacher at Sea Cruise at the NOAA booth during U.S. Representative Frank Wolf and the National Science Foundation sponsored “Change the World:… [Read more]
Amanda Peretich (TAS 2012) was one of twenty teachers selected as a participant in the 2013 Siemens Science Teachers as Researchers (STARs) Program at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) in July. After two weeks of research immersion at… [Read more]
Susie Hill (2007), Nauticus Education Specialist and NOAA Teacher at Sea '07, and her "Explore the Bay” Summer Campers had the field trip of a lifetime at the NOAA Headquarters in Norfolk, VA on August 6, 2013. The six… [Read more]
