The Burroughs Wellcome Fund presents the Career Award for STEM Teachers to outstanding STEM teachers in the North Carolina public primary and secondary schools and provides $175,000 over five years. These awards recognize STEM teachers who… [Read more]
Congratulations to Beverly Owens, TAS, 2013, who is a 2019 recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers (CASMT).… [Read more]
NOAA’s Southeast Region Teacher at Sea Alumni (SE TASA) Workshop was held on May 18-20, 2018 in Charleston, South Carolina. Fourteen Teacher at Sea Alumni (TASA) from the region (KY, FL, GA, NC, and SC) attended this two-and-a-half-day professional development… [Read more]
Congratulations to Lindsay Knippenberg (TAS 2011), for being selected as a 2016-2017 Teacher of the Year by Mooresville Graded School District. Ms. Knippenberg has 14 years of teaching experience and currently teaches Marine Science and Earth Science at Mooresville… [Read more]
The annual National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) National Conference: Empowering Performance was held in Nashville, Tennessee from March 31, 2016 – April 3, 2016. Several Teacher at Sea Alumni (TASA) came together to support NOAA’s Office of Education at… [Read more]
On July 15, 2015, ten NOAA Teacher at Sea alumni were honored with the distinguished NOAA Teacher at Sea Program Excellence in Science Education Award at an event on Capitol Hill hosted by United States Senator Jeanne Shaheen (New… [Read more]
10 NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni (TASA) volunteered March 12 – March 14, 2015 at the NOAA booth during the National Science Teachers Association Conference in Chicago. TASA distributed NOAA education materials and demonstrated hands-on ocean activities. They informed… [Read more]
NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni John Sammons (TAS 2005), Jill Stephens (TAS 2009), Dana Clark (TAS 2014), and Jennifer Fry (TAS 2009 and 2012) volunteered at regional science conferences in order to share their experiences at sea, inform the… [Read more]
Dr. John Carlson, NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center research fishery biologist, and his team traveled to Andros, Bahamas in March 2014 to locate, tag and track one of the most endangered marine fish, the smalltooth sawfish. Elizabeth Eubanks (TAS… [Read more]
Beverly Owens (TAS 2013), Britta Culbertson (TAS 2013), and Anne Byford (TAS 2010) represented the NOAA Teacher at Sea Program (TAS) at the regional National Science Teachers Association Conference in Charlotte, NC on November 7-9, 2013. The NOAA Teacher… [Read more]