The below is just in from the TACNY email list – several scholarships are available from a number of local organizations in the STEM fields. If you know someone of the right age, please forward the links along. If you know someone too young to apply, make a mental note to check back at cnystem.com when they’re of appropriate age!
Editor’s Note: The following announcement is in from the TACNY email list. If you’re available, please consider spending the day being quite impressed (as I’ve been previously)!
You are invited to serve as a judge for the GENIUS Olympiad on Wednesday, June 19th, as we encourage young scientific minds from all over the world. Terra Science and Education even provides a FREE BUS for judges from Syracuse!
The
GENIUS Olympiad is an international high school competition about
environmental issues in the disciplines of Science, Robotics, Visual and
Performing Arts, Creating Writing, and Business. We expect 700+
projects from 75 countries and 42 states (1400 participants)!
Everyone
with a passion for environmental issues and a BS/BA degree in STEM,
business, art, music, short film, or education may volunteer to judge
for the appropriate field. Each judging session is three hours, during
which you talk with assigned students and grade their performance based
on judging criteria given to you. We would like to have you for both
morning and afternoon sessions, if possible.
Judges
are crucial, so not only do we provide lunch and refreshments during
judging, and free parking or a free bus, but we also thank each judge
with a $25 Amazon Gift card at the end of your day!
More information will be sent via email to those who register.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 [FREE bus leaves Bird Library at SU at 8:00 AM] Morning Session: 9:30-12 PM [LUNCH for those judging both sessions 12:00-1:00 PM] Afternoon Session: 1-3.30 PM [FREE bus leaves Oswego at 3:45 PM, arrives at Bird by 4:45 PM] [Those with their own transportation may stay for the 5:00 PM Cultural Festival as well.]
WHERE: SUNY Oswego Campus, Campus Center Arena, Oswego, NY 13126
If you would like to be a judge for the GENIUS Olympiad on June 19th, please register at one of these links:
The Environmental Challenge is a science fair and career exploration
opportunity designed especially for all Syracuse City School District
seventh and eighth grade students.
Environmental Challenge encourages:
Student projects that support and extend 7/8th grade science curriculum
Student research, scientific inquiry, and critical thinking
Students to begin exploring science and science-related careers
Students to explore and understand the urban environment and its relationship to the global environment
Volunteers and Judges are needed. Without the help of over 100 volunteers, this event could not be possible.Register to judge here.
Unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs), a.k.a. drones, are emerging technologies that are transforming numerous industries. In the environmental field, UAVs are changing the ways we monitor and collect data on land and over water, revolutionizing the quality and frequency of remote data collection that has previously been conducted via planes or satellites.
In this Research and Technology Forum, you will hear from two Syracuse University faculty members who are applying UAVs in their own research, and developing educational programs to share this new technology with undergraduate and graduate students. First, we’ll introduce you to different types of UAV technologies, how these technologies are being used by earth and environmental scientists, and provide several local examples from thermal and multispectral monitoring around Syracuse that show how UAV data is improving our understanding at the intersection of hydrology and water quality.
To round out the forum, we’ll also discuss a new course, developed by Drs. Christa Kelleher and Jane Read, aimed at educating the next generation of environmental and earth scientists capable of using these tools when they leave Syracuse.
Dr. Kelleher’s research interests are at the interfaces between climate, hydrology, humans, and ecology, particularly using observations and mathematical models to investigate the organization of hydrology and water quality across spatio-temporal scales. Currently, she’s pursuing projects to examine the hydrologic role of vacant lots in urban areas, exploring the hydrologic controls on contaminants of emerging concern across Central New York, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to understand patterns of hydrology and water quality in Syracuse and beyond. Christa teaches courses in water science, hydrology, earth systems modeling, and applications of UAVs to environmental and earth sciences.
Dr. Read specializes in geographic information systems, remote sensing, land use and land cover, and human-environment interactions. Much of her research has focused in the neotropics, including Costa Rica, Brazil, and Guyana, although she has also studied historical land changes in the Adirondacks of New York State, USA and more recently working with colleagues on a digital atlas project – Onondaga Lake: Finding a Restorative Center in Digital Space. She was the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Geography from 2014-2018 and is interested in ways to incorporate active learning into the classroom. She teaches courses in global environmental change, tropical environments, spatial thinking and geospatial technologies (GIS, remote sensing, UAVs), and spatial storytelling.
About TACNY
Founded in 1903 as the Technology Club of Syracuse, the nonprofit Technology Alliance of Central New York’s mission is to facilitate community awareness, appreciation, and education of technology; and to collaborate with like-minded organizations across Central New York. For more information, visit tacny.org
The announcement below has arrived through the TACNY email list:
Syracuse University is hosting our annual Engineering & Computer Science Open House on Saturday, April 13! This is an excellent opportunity for high school students are interested in these fields.
The day will include a discussion of Engineering & Computer Science majors, application process, student success programs, co-curricular activities, study abroad, and internship and career opportunities. Prospective students will also meet with current students and faculty in our labs to learn about their projects and research. We’ll have a fun lunch on the Quad as well as residence hall tours and campus tours.
The complete schedule and RSVP link are available on our ECS Open House website. Please scroll down to the schedule for prospective students (10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) and use the registration link for prospective students.
If this date doesn’t work for you, please consider visiting on a different date. We offer Engineering and Computer Science info sessions and lab tours on almost every weekday. Please register online for a campus visit.
About TACNY
Founded in 1903 as the Technology Club of Syracuse, the nonprofit Technology Alliance of Central New York’s mission is to facilitate community awareness, appreciation, and education of technology; and to collaborate with like-minded organizations across Central New York. For more information, visit tacny.org
