Nevada's Climate Change High School Science Fair Network

内华达州气候变化高中科学博览会网络将在不同的高中生、他们的课堂教师和内华达州高等教育系统(NHE)教职员工之间建立合作，在英特尔国际科学与工程(ISEF)高质量高中科学博览会研究项目的开发中使用专注于气候变化科学的地球科学数据。利用最近授予内华达州的NSF EPSCoR气候变化基础设施大奖，我们将与STEM非营利组织Gathering Genius，Inc.和UNLV部门合作。环境研究：提高教师对气候变化科学的理解；增加提交给内华达州ISEF附属科学博览会的基于气候变化科学的高中科学博览会项目的数量和质量；提高学生通过内华达州高中科学能力考试的机会；并将内华达州的气候变化研究社区扩大到农村学校和学生人数较少的学校。30名高中教师将参加一个全州范围的视频会议研讨会，然后访问并随后实时访问最先进的环境监测站的数据，这些监测站旨在监测气候变化对内华达州的影响。该项目将在他们参与期间提供研究生级别的气候变化科学在线课程。然后，将向这些教师和学生提供一个在气候变化研究、地球科学和相关学科方面具有专业知识的教职员工网络，以创建高质量的科学博览会项目。这些教师来自内华达州不同的乡村和城市学校，他们将招募和指导约150名学生完成英特尔ISEF高质量科学博览会项目，重点是气候变化科学，他们将在项目的两年期间向内华达州三个ISEF附属地区性科学博览会之一提交科学博览会项目。如果被评为足够高的质量，可能会在2012和2013年向英特尔ISEF推荐一些。这些高中毕业生将是NSE地球科学课程和学位课程的优秀候选人，他们的录取将增加内华达州地球科学本科生的数量和多样性。

The Nevada Climate Change High School Science Fair Network will create a collaboration between diverse high school students, their classroom teachers, and Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) faculty to use geosciences data focused on climate change science in the development of Intel International Science and Engineering (ISEF) quality high school science fair research projects. Leveraging a recent large NSF EPSCoR climate change infrastructure award to Nevada, we will work with Gathering Genius, Inc. a STEM non-profit, and UNLV's Dept. of Environmental Studies to: improve teachers understanding of climate change science; increase the quantity and quality of high school science fair projects based on climate change science being submitted to Nevada ISEF-affiliated science fairs; improve students chances of passing the Nevada state high school proficiency exam in science; and expand Nevada's climate change research community into rural schools and schools with large numbers of underrepresented students. Thirty high school teachers will participate in a statewide video-conference workshop then visit and subsequently have real-time access to data from state of the art environmental monitoring stations designed to monitor effects of climate change on Nevada. The project will provide a graduate level on-line course in climate change science during their participation. A network of faculty with expertise in climate change research, geosciences and related disciplines will then be provided to these teachers and students to create quality science fair projects. These teachers, from diverse rural and urban schools around Nevada, will recruit and mentor ~150 students to complete Intel ISEF quality science fair projects with emphasis on climate change science, who will submit science fair projects to one of three regional ISEF-affiliated science fairs in Nevada during the two years of the project. If judged to be of high enough quality, some may be recommended to the Intel ISEF in 2012 and 2013. These high school graduates will be excellent candidates for geoscience courses and degree programs of the NSHE, and their admission will increase the numbers and diversity of undergraduate students in the geosciences in Nevada.