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Overcoming Challenges in Science Outreach: The Hughes Scholars Program Experience

The Hughes Scholars Program, led by Laura Whitmore, showcases the difficulties of implementing science outreach in local schools. Focusing on essential topics like climate change and greenhouse gases, the program faced various challenges including timing, curriculum constraints, and volunteer management. Educators expressed concern over prioritizing reading and math over science due to test-focused teaching mandates. Despite these hurdles, the program is committed to enhancing scientific literacy among students, encouraging a future where science is integrated more effectively into education.

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Overcoming Challenges in Science Outreach: The Hughes Scholars Program Experience

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  1. Keep On Keepin’ On Laura Whitmore Hughes Scholars Program The Challenges of Science Outreach in Local Schools

  2. William InskeepLRES Hughes ScholarHUB

  3. WHY OUTREACH?

  4. Project Approach

  5. Successes

  6. Initial Challenges • Preparation complications. • Running Late • Timing • Difficult to facilitate • Like a library, and literally, a library • Volunteers • Content breadth

  7. Follow Up • What is climate • Human induced vs naturally induced • Greenhouse gasses • Primary sources of greenhouse gasses

  8. Planning for Spring Semester BELGRADE INTERMEDIATE WHITTIER ELEMENTARY LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY

  9. Impressions from Teachers “We have made a deliberate, conscious, meta-cognizant decision to put science on the backburner for the reason to put reading and math forward. That is the result of a minority group struggling with literature and math.” “We don’t teach science because we teach to the test and science isn’t scored…” “Because of the NCLB Act students do not know how to work in groups. … Teachers don’t give up time to allow for outside presentation because of mandated teaching limits due to prescribed curriculum.”

  10. Acknowledgments • Hughes Undergraduate Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute , support from the Complex Biological Systems SURP • Martha Sellers • Kylie Perlinski • Jerry Lince(5th Grade Teacher) and Belgrade Intermediate School. • Volunteers • Jacob Simon • Hallie OinesAnthony Rampello • Bill Inskeepand Laboratory

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