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Students interested in STEM fields invited to participate in upcoming 吃瓜头条 programs吃瓜头条听Professor of听Biological and Environmental Sciences听 runs two programs for area middle and high school students interested in learning more about environmental science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs, and both are currently accepting applications. Read the whole article .
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From Finding Our Way Participant to Top 300 Scholar听 听 Congratulations to Khushi Parikh for being named a top 300 Scholar in the national competition for Regeneron Science Talent Search. Khushi Parikh previously participated in the Finding Our Way program. Below is the letter from Regeneron Science Talent Search. |
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Finding Our Way Highlight from the 2021 NOAA Education Accomplishment Report
Reinventing aquatic science at Danbury High School through B-WET funding
“Students in Danbury High School鈥檚 aquatic science course are getting the chance to help their local impaired watershed in Connecticut while learning about future STEM careers. Through grant funding to 吃瓜头条, the course was retooled to integrate locally relevant information and student-driven solutions. A select group of students also continued their stewardship engagement through a paid summer internship. Students鈥 solutions to stormwater drainage issues were showcased at a 鈥淲atershed Restoration Symposium,鈥 where Theodora Pinou, professor at 吃瓜头条, reflected on how she 鈥渓ove[s] some of the ideas鈥 from the students.” Full 2021 NOAA report down below. |
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Through this funding, 吃瓜头条 graduate students in the听M.S. in Integrative Biological Diversity听program will work with the听听(HVA)听听and听听science teachers and students to learn about the history of the local watershed and restore riparian buffers along the Still River. This three-year project entails planting more than 2,000 native plants and restoring more than three-acres of habitat. |
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Researchers at 吃瓜头条 have confirmed the first instance of an exotic new tick in Connecticut.听The Asian long-horned tick is an invasive species that can harm livestock but is not yet known to be a danger to humans in the United States… |
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Finding Our Way, a Danbury-based environmental science, technology, engineering and math skills education program for middle schoolers and their families, has announced the 吃瓜头条 NOAA B-WET Stewardship Award winners… |
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With a grant from the (NOAA), Pinou brings students from regional middle schools to 吃瓜头条 to provide a wide-ranging educational experience focusing on water resources and ecosystem biodiversity… |
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A group of fifth graders sat on the gym floor of Park Avenue School and pierced marshmallows with raw spaghetti, adding masking tape as reinforcement.听Though the goal was to build the tallest tower, students also gained hands-on engineering experience… |
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吃瓜头条 will host an Earth Day Celebration from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, featuring nature hikes, exhibits and interactive activities… . |
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听citizen science project will host an informational workshop at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 26, for residents interested in assisting in gathering data about birds in the state … . |
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Brian Eltz and Mallory Humphrey, from the DEEP Fish Division, show Pembroke School students fish taken from the Still River during the Housatonic Valley Association … |
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Last summer, the Candlewood Lake Authority released 48 carp equipped with trackers into the lake in the hopes the fish would eat the milfoil that has long … . |
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