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YLACES Adds Educational Expertise to Board
Youth Learning as Citizen Environmental Scientists is pleased to welcome Elena Takaki to the Board. Elena is an expert in environmental...
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Nov 20, 20182 min read
Tom Ackerman of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as Recipient of the Fourth Annual YES Medal
Youth Learning as Citizen Environmental Scientists (YLACES), an organization committed to advancing student engagement in science, is...
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Nov 14, 20181 min read
YLACES Makes Equipment Grant to the Olohana Foundation
YLACES announces that it is supplying the Olohana Foundation with 3-D printed automated weather stations to be set up at three remote...
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Oct 17, 20182 min read
YLACES announces $75,000 commitment to sustain Student Research Symposia
YLACES, an organization committed to advancing student engagement in science, has announced funding to facilitate the convening of six...
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Jul 19, 20181 min read
One Small Investment
Harmony High School, two biopaddles, about $160. A team of high school juniors needed these devices to test for fecal coliform and other...
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Jun 14, 20171 min read
YLACES funded project awarded Best Overall Presentation
Four Harmony High School students recently competed at the Southwestern Regional GLOBE Symposium in Denver, Colorado. The group was...
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Sep 13, 20161 min read
When, Where, and How - the Earth Science Essentials
Earth Science involves the study of a single system and cannot progress through controlled experiments. There is no other planet earth to...
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Jul 28, 20162 min read
Cost Reductions in SOIL Moisture Equipment
GLOBE measurements of soil moisture have become much more affordable! Given that equipment cost can pose a major limit on student and...
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Jul 6, 20162 min read
Nurture the Scientist in Us All
Much effort is placed on identifying the gifted among the young and trying to ensure that they get the special opportunities that will...
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Jul 4, 20161 min read
Congratulations School for Nurses Vrapce
Using a Calitoo sun photometer provided by YLACES, the students at the School for Nurses in Zagreb, Croatia have produced an outstanding...
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Jun 4, 20161 min read
Congratulations Dino and Sarah!
Students at the Prirodoslovna i grafička škola in Rijeka, Croatia have put equipment provided by YLACES to good use. Dino Bešic and Sarah...
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YLACES
Mar 29, 20162 min read
YLACES extends SciStarter grant to recruit, train, and equip citizen scientists to ground-truth NASA
Washington, DC – NASA scientists are on a mission to map global soil moisture, and through a YLACES grant to SciStarter and GLOBE Program...
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Feb 15, 20162 min read
Science Coaches
YLACES focuses its support on activities that encourage and enable students to do science. To learn science, students must do science...
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Jan 11, 20162 min read
The Right Rubric
With students doing research projects as part of science classes, there must be a way to assess their work. Fortunately, there is a...
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Oct 23, 20153 min read
Everyone a Scientist
Have you ever listened to an eight year-old ponder the clouds? Her questions are dreamy, imaginative, big. Could I pull them apart? Why...
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Aug 25, 20152 min read
SciStarter Grant to Recruit Youth Groups in all 50 States to Support SMAP Ground Truth
Washington, DC – SciStarter (SciStarter.com) has received grant commitment of up to $50,000 from Youth Learning as Citizen Environmental...
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Mar 23, 20152 min read
First YES Medal Awarded
The first Youth Environmental Science Medal was presented to Dr. Barrett Rock at the Annual Meeting of the National Science Teachers...
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Nov 20, 20141 min read
Barrett Rock Selected for 1st YES Medal
Youth Learning as Citizen Environmental Scientists (YLACES) announced that Dr. Barrett Rock has been selected as the first recipient of...
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