Spotlight: A busy summer in AMS Education!

Leveraging support from NOAA, the Office of Naval Research, and the NSF and with participation by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the AMS Education Program offered four distinct professional development workshops for educators this summer. For the first time, the annual workshop for DataStreme course mentors and the 27th annual Project Atmosphere workshop for K-12 teachers both leveraged significant distance-learning approaches. In July, 16 teachers attended the face-to-face workshop portion of the 6-week Project Atmosphere course, building on the online components administered through the California University of Pennsylvania. Also in July, 24 teachers spent two enriching weeks in classroom-based and field experiences at the 25th annual Maury Project oceanography course at the U.S. Naval Academy. To round out the summer offerings, AMS also held the sixth AMS Climate Studies Diversity Project workshop for 16 Minority Serving Institution faculty to facilitate local climate course implementation.