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Sep 8
1 min

Dixon Butler and Jeff Bouwman Discuss Gibraltar, MI Grant

As a part of the YLACES COVID-19 Zoom calls with individuals involved in citizen environmental science, YLACES president Dixon Butler spo...

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David A. Padgett Appointed as Member, Board of Directors

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Aug 20
2 min

David A. Padgett Appointed as Member, Board of Directors

Youth Learning as Environmental Citizen Scientists (YLACES) Appoints David A. Padgett as Member, Board of Directors Youth Learning as Env...

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Aug 13
1 min

YLACES and SciStarter

Check out the video below to find out about the relationship between YLACES and SciStarter. In this video, Dixon Butler of YLACES and Dar...

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David Padgett and Dixon Butler Discuss Environmental Justice

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Jul 8
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David Padgett and Dixon Butler Discuss Environmental Justice

David Padgett, the 2020 YES Medal winner, took the time to join YLACES president Dixon Butler to discuss his work in citizen environmenta...

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Apr 21
2 min

YLACES Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Earth Day with Youth Citizen Science in Your Backyard

Environmental Citizen Science offers a wonderful way to celebrate Earth Day and help us all to better know our environment. Youth Learnin...

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Apr 13
3 min

2020 SRS Cancelled

Unfortunately, the GLOBE and YLACES leadership teams have decided that with the unknowns of the current situation and the number of schoo...

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Mar 31
2 min

YLACES Announces David A. Padgett as 2020 Youth Environmental Science Medal Winner

Youth Learning as Environmental Citizen Scientists (YLACES), an organization committed to advancing student engagement in science, announ...

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Mar 31
1 min

SRS 2020 COVID-19 Update

Due to the rapidly changing circumstances surrounding COVID-19, YLACES and GLOBE have decided to postpone the 2020 Student Research Sympo...

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Mar 26
1 min

YLACES Grant Proposal - NEW DEADLINE

In an effort to synchronize our grant process with the academic calendar, YLACES is shifting from an ongoing grant process to two grant c...

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Feb 24
1 min

St. Vrain Community Montessori School Begins Using YLACES Materials for Citizen Science

St. Vrain Community Montessori School, a public charter school in Longmont, Colorado, uses both the GLOBE Program and the Left Hand Water...

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Feb 8
2 min

2019 YES Medal Awarded to Maura Duffy

YLACES is pleased to have presented the 2019 YES Medal to Maura Duffy yesterday evening at the Maryland Association for Environmental and...

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Feb 8
2 min

YES Medal Award Remarks by Dixon Butler

Thank you, Elena. I want to take a moment to thank Elena Takaki for her leadership of YLACES. Elena is our newest board member and has be...

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End of Year Report from the Family Citizen Science project at the Brandwein Learning Nature Preserve

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Jan 25
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End of Year Report from the Family Citizen Science project at the Brandwein Learning Nature Preserve

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2019 Youth Environmental Science Medal Award

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Nov 24, 2019
2 min

2019 Youth Environmental Science Medal Award

YLACES (Youth Learning as Citizen Environmental Scientists), an organization committed to advancing student engagement in science, announ...

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Nov 9, 2019
1 min

Open Science, leaving no one behind

World Science Day for Peace and Development, celebrated every 10th of November, highlights the importance and relevance of science in our...

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Nov 7, 2019
1 min

Star Grantee Jeff Bouwman

Our star grantee, Jeff Bouwman, is an author on Making Science Come Alive With Clouds. The article describes the Globe Observer mobile ap...

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Oct 11, 2019
1 min

Back to School with YLACES

As we reach the beginning of October, students and teachers alike are getting into the routine of the school year. Teachers are often sti...

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Oct 7, 2019
1 min

Democracy and Science

Democracy – self-government – is hard work and requires that we the people are cognitively prepared for the task. The ability to think sc...

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Sep 25, 2019
1 min

YLACES Funded Research Published in Peer-Reviewed Journal

Funding from a YLACES grant has helped an atmospheric/environmental research group thrive at Xavier University. Xavier University of Loui...

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Aug 2, 2019
1 min

Student Scientists Present Research at the GLOBE Annual Meeting with Support from YLACES

Each year GLOBE students from around the world submit their environmental research projects to the International Virtual Science Symposiu...

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