Date: February 28th, 2021

Location: Remote/Online

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and closing on February 21st.

Eligible Participants: High School Educators (in the New Orleans area)

Stipends: Educators who participate in this workshop will receive a $250 stipend upon completion of the training, and two Public Lab Kits (the Babylegs Aquatic Trawl and the Microscope kit valued at $70)

Contact: Purl Feldman, purl@publiclab.org, @purl

Join us in New Orleans to learn about Community Science Programming on Microplastics for the classroom!

This workshop brings together high school educators from the New Orleans area to learn about our Messages from the Mississippi series, which is aimed to engage students in hands-on learning about microplastics in the Mississippi River. Participating educators will explore Public Lab's microplastics curriculum, and learn how to work with students to do field research, collect samples, learn about data analysis, and share their findings. Through this curricula, students will consider their roles as environmental stewards, explore advocacy pathways and social change tools to respond to the challenge of microplastics pollution. Highlights of this workshop:

• Build a Babylegs Aquatic Trawl
• Build Public Lab's Community Microscope
• Meet other local educators
• Interact with our Messages from the Mississippi curricula
• Connect with the Public Lab community and mission

Seats have been filled for our February workshop but please email our our Education Associate, Purl (purl@publiclab.org) to be put on our waiting list! Additionally, we will be unfurling another workshop at the end of March-- stay tuned!