Current Opportunities
Opportunities For Youth
Scientist To Go Meetups
Our Scientist To Go program allows for students to virtually meet with a wide range of scientists and to learn a little bit more about what they do. These 45 minute sessions include presentations from the scientists and Q&A opportunity for students. Current meet ups can be found here
Email Drew at [email protected] for more details or to join the email list for future events.
Community Science Challenges
Students participating in community science can connect with professional scientists and other classrooms across the Northeast, get outside to make careful observations of local ecosystems, and contribute important data on impacts of climate change. Join us for the Vernal Pool Community Science Challenge this Spring!
Email Meggie at [email protected] to get your class involved right away or get information on future events.
In-Person LabVenture Programs
Request a visit to our LabVenture Program for your 5th or 6th grade classrooms at LabVenture.gmri.org
Professional Learning Opportunities
Connected Learning Ecosystems Gathering: Connect, Reflect & Plan August 19th & 20th on the UMaine Orono Campus
Join Learning Ecosystems Northeast Connected Learning Ecosystems (CLEs) for two days of collaborative planning, reflection, and connection.
Learning Ecosystems Northeast (LENE), a partnership of teachers, librarians, in and out-of-school educators, 4-H staff & volunteers, museum/science center staff, and more invites you to join two days of connection, reflection, and planning at the University of Maine in Orono, ME.
This event offers a chance to connect locally and regionally, enhance existing relationships, build new ones, and explore and experience different approaches to building climate and data literacy skills for youth. Collaborate in small groups to brainstorm and receive support in bringing climate/data-focused project ideas to life through partners and funding.
- What: Connected Learning Ecosystems Gathering: Connect, Reflect & Plan
- Where: University of Maine, Wells Conference Center, 131 Munson Rd, Orono, ME 04473
- When: 8:30 AM on Monday August 19 until 3:30 PM on Tuesday August 20
- Who: Librarians, teachers, in and out-of-school educators, 4-H staff & volunteers, museum/science center staff, learning experience designers; any adults who engage with youth as part of their learning pathway in the climate and data literacy space. This is for people interested in joining a CLE and for existing members.
REGISTER HERE
All food, travel, and lodging costs are covered. JULY UPDATE: Please note that lodging is full.
For more information and/or questions email Molly at [email protected].
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Connected Learning Ecosystems
Are you a librarian, after school educator, museum or nature center educator, 4-H staff or volunteer, or classroom teacher looking to deepen your STEM programming and offerings?
The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), 4-H, Maine State Libraries, Wabanaki Youth in Science, and Gateway Community Services, with funding from NASA, are looking to grow and support Connected Learning Ecosystems (CLE) across Maine. CLEs will be a space for communities of educators and learning facilitators to work together to build a climate and data literate generation, with the knowledge and skills needed to address the challenges that face us!
CLE members will work together to enhance their own understanding of climate, data, and a range of STEM skills and knowledge that kids need. This community will work together to engage kids all over Maine in place-based, locally relevant investigations of ecosystems and climate change, connecting formal and informal learning spaces. Educators across all these spaces have so much to share with one another in support of their own professional learning and the learning of the youth they work with. All the project partners are excited to help forge new connections.
The project team will offer a range of events and opportunities for educator networking and professional learning. In addition, CLE members will be supported to devise events and regular meeting structures based on community member needs and interest. Early conversations will focus on meet-up and professional learning needs and interests of the group.
Membership Includes:
- A small participation stipend
- Reimbursement for mileage to in-person events
- Connections with regional and statewide communities of peers working together to enhance STEM learning for Maine Youth
- Connections with supportive and engaged project team that includes staff from institutions from Maine to California
Express interest in being part of a CLE HERE.
If you have any questions, email Molly at [email protected].
Self-Paced Professional Learning Opportunities:
LabVenture Professional Learning Module:
Educators build knowledge of climate and ecosystem change and the components of data and science inquiry that help us investigate those changes through a four part module (each part will take 60-90 minutes). This work features local datasets that add to the story of climate driven ecosystem change in the Gulf of Maine and connects these local stories to global patterns. Check out the module here.