More than 100 area high school students presented environmental research on topics like weather, soil ecology and water quality at The University of Toledo on Thursday, May 15.
The GLOBE Mission EARTH Student Research Symposium is an annual event under GLOBE Mission EARTH, a collaborative program that’s been transforming the way science is taught to students in kindergarten through high school by engaging them in real scientific research since it launched under UToledo’s Dr. Kevin Czajkowski in 2015.
GLOBE Mission EARTH leverages the resources of both NASA and Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), an international science and education program that provides students, teachers and citizen scientists around the world the opportunity to participate in data collection and the scientific process and to contribute meaningfully to research on their local and global environments.
NASA has invested $24 million in GLOBE Mission EARTH since it launched in 2015.
While students from around the world engage in the program, those who participated in last week’s conference represented six schools in Ohio and Michigan.
They presented their work exploring how cloud cover affects solar cell efficiency, how household items affect soil pH, how temperature affects dissolved oxygen in bodies of water, and more to peers and local scientists who volunteered as judges ahead of an awards ceremony that concluded the event.
