<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Our 2019-20 Data Jam is wrapping up, but the projects are so great, we want more students to have the opportunity to try. Announcing the Spring 2020 Mini Jam! brought to you by the makers of the Northeast US Ecosystems Data Jam. Check it out! <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/nes-lter-schoolyard-datajam" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">NES-LTER Schoolyard Mini Data Jam</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-variant-ligatures:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Data Jammers immerse themselves in authentic, locally relevant data sets that have been collected in and around the region by professional scientists. It's like a science fair project, only we provide the data. And to communicate their interpretations, they create a graphic, song, video, sculpture, computer game, puppet show, children's book, or whatever! Their imagination is the limit!</span> </font><br></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">From a recent teacher participant in the big Data Jam:</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><i><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">"Watching my students work in their groups to try to figure out what the data was about and then debate how they were going to present their ideas was a great learning experience in how to let go and let inquiry happen. I was just telling another teacher about how fun it was!"</span> </i> M. Sorrows, Luther Burbank MS</div></blockquote><div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">All of the details are online, all of the data is online, all of the submission is online. Students can work in groups (online) or with their family members at home. It's ideal!</div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Pre-registration (indicating interest) by Apr 30, submission by Jun 1, judging completed by Jun 20-- or make your own schedule that fits within those parameters.</div></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#073763">Annette Laursen Brickley (she, her, hers)<br><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#073763">NES-LTER Education & Outreach Coord.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#073763">S<div style="display:inline">TEMming the Gaps Consulting</div></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#073763"><div style="display:inline"></div><div style="display:inline">Mattapoisett</div>, MA<br>207-951-6273 (mobile)</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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