The ESF Environmental Summit Research Symposium
Minds-on Hands-on Original Research Projects
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

ESF in the High School a collaboration between ESF and partnering urban, rural, and suburban school districts. ESF in the High School enables qualified high school students to take the Global Environment course for college credit while still in high school and to prepare for a successful transition to college.

The ESF Science Corps comprised of undergraduate, masters, and PhD students who receive NSF Fellowships, links ESF research to the classroom, lab, and field experiences of ESF in the High School and serve as resources to the teachers and the students conducting research.

The Environmental Summit is a research symposium designed to bring together a community of high school aged scientists to present and discuss their original research to their peers, high school and college science faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. The research was conducted as part of the Global Environment course curriculum, enabling the high school students to engage not only in the knowledge but process of science.

The Environmental Summit encourages:

• student to conduct original research and scientific inquiry
• students to review and critically think about scientific literature from popular to peer-reviewed scientific journals
• students to begin exploring science and science-related careers and educational interests

Downloads

• Environmental Summit Rubric (criteria)
• Registration Forms (school and student forms, download and print)

For additional information contact:

Dr. Richard Beal
ESF Educational Outreach
470-6817
rebeal@esf.edu