Chieftain Reports On Weather Station Outreach Program at Parkview
November 20, 2018
Chieftain editor-publisher Scott Turner visited a Parkview Elementary fifth-grade classrom to report on a new outreach effort. NMT's Climate and Water Consortium has installed weather stations at local schools to help bring STEM education into local schools. Click the link at the bottom of this page to read the full story at the Chieftain's website.
“This makes me feel like a scientist,” Parkview Elementary School fifth grader Jaquavis Vrawley said as he and his classmates assembled a mini-weather station with assistance from Stipo Sentic a couple of weeks ago.
“This is really cool,” his classmate Rayann Martinez said.
That was the reaction New Mexico Tech Physics Professor Zeljka Fuchs was looking for. Fuchs is the director of the Climate and Water Consortium and the initiator of the Science of Weather in Schools program. New Mexico Tech’s Climate and Water Consortium recently received a private donation of $10,000 through the FHL Foundation for the program. The FHL Foundation of Albuquerque announced six grants totaling $70,000 in its winter 2018 round of awards.
“We decided to bring this idea to the kids so that we can raise their awareness of climate change, of the environment that they are going to be living in, and also help them fall in love with science, physics and math,” Fuchs said.
She said Science of Weather in Schools is an outreach project to install portable ...