Teacher Workshops and Educator Opportunities
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GOES-U Teacher Workshop - June 2024NOAA and NASA co-hosted a Teacher Workshop (organized by CIMSS) prior to the GOES-U satellite launch at Kennedy Space Center. The full agenda, with links to presentations ready for downloadd, can be found at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/education/goesr/GOESU_TW.html.
ESIP Educator WorkshopsCIMSS has co-organized teacher workshops at summer meetings of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) since 2009. The 2024 event coincides with the ESIP summer meeting in Asheville North Carolina. 2025 takes place in Seattle.
- GOES-T Teacher Workshop - February 2022
The GOES-T Teacher Workshop at Kennedy Space Center was scheduled for February 28th, 2022, the afternoon prior to the GOES-T launch but canceled due to the COVID19 pandemic.
Lockheed Martin, builders of the GOES-R Series of Satellites, opened it's Littleton Colorado campus to educators in August 2017 for a 1-day STEM workshop. It was a great chance to learn about the GOES-R satellite series, resources from NOAA, NASA & CIMSS, and see the fully assembled GOES-S satellite!
This web-based course on climate change is tailored to middle and high school science teachers. Content is freely available to all. Originally developed following the 2007 IPCC report, content has been updated with data from the 2023 IPCC report (AR6) and the 2023 U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA).
CIMSS organized a teacher workshop at the historical launch of the GOES-R satellite in November 2016 as part of the GOES-R Education Proving Ground. The agenda and presentations can be found on-line at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/education/goesr/workshop.html
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2015 Great Lakes MOOC
In 2015 CIMSS collaborated with UW-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) to develop and deliver a Massive Open On-Line Course (MOOC) on the Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region. Over 6,000 people enrolled! Content unique to the course has been retained here. 
CIMSS hosted the 27th gathering of the Satellites & Education Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014 with presentations by NOAA, NASA, CIMSS and SSEC. The program and power-point presentations are on-line at this link.
