At Cleveland State Community Colleage you can take a real class in geocaching. The first weeks are in the classroom - learning about the website and software. Then you go find (and I guess plant) caches. IF there's enought content I guess it could also be a geospatial course. I could not find the course in the catalog but there's lots of Phys Ed.
Twenty-eight members of the Astronomy Club at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland [FL] worked for several months to prepare a giant latex weather balloon bearing a box of cameras and data-collecting equipment. They sent the probe aloft last weekend, with the aim of reaching 100,000 feet — high enough to peer across the threshold of the universe.
"We wanted to see the curvature of the earth," astronomy teacher Kyle Jeter said. "We wanted to see where the sky turns black, where you really feel like you're at the edge of space."
Sadly, there were technical difficulties.
University of Georgia geography professor Marshall Shepherd will begin a 1-year term as president elect of the has been voted president-elect of the American Meteorological Society on Jan. 22. Shepherd, directs the school's Atmospheric Sciences Program, and will assume the presidency of the society in 2013.
- WTOC
Educational non-profit EAST Initiative would like to welcome Dr. Angela Kremers as their new Senior Director of Corporate Strategy. Through Dr. Kremers’ previous work with the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation as their Senior Associate for Education, she gained national attention in educational philanthropy by increasing support and collaboration for improvement in higher education college completion work and K-12 system reform. Dr. Kremers was nominated by Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe in 2011 to serve on the prestigious National Assessment Governing Board.
- EAST PR
