Outreach Administered by:
Caitlin Lawrence

On Monday, November 2, Caitlin Lawrence of the Educational Outreach Committee visited Bentworth Middle School, in the Bentworth School District.  Caitlin spoke to a total of 105 students ranging from 7-8th grade, and covered the basics of weather, including air masses, fronts, layers of the atmosphere, cloud types, lows and highs, and how to read weather maps. She also talked about Cal U Meteorology and the opportunities that are available to them within this major at Cal U. Caitlin also talked about the fun and beneficial activites that the Meteorology Club participates in. Lastly, she covered severe weather and storm chasing, and showed the class a video of an EF2 tornado that the Cal U storm chasing team intercepted in 2008 in Kansas. Afterwards, the class played a round of weather jeopardy to top everything off.

Outreach Administered by:
Justin Lung

On Friday, October 9, Justin Lung of the Educational Outreach Committee visited Meyersdale Elementary School, in the Meyersdale Area School District.  He spoke to about 170 students from the 4th and 5th grade, and gave 8 speeches that were around 30 min long each. Justin covered clouds, temperature, humidity, severe weather, precipitation, as well as the Cal U 2009 storm chase. He talked about current weather while showing weather maps. The day had very heavy rainfall, so Justin discussed the current conditions, as well as the tornado warning that was issued for the county to the south.

Outreach Administered by:
Adam Cinderich & Katie Mercadante

On Friday, April 18, members of the Educational Outreach Committee visited Central Elementary School, in the Brownsville School District.  The presentation included topics in the vast field of Earth Science including geology, meteorology and geography, and was given to a group of 4th and 5th grade gifted students. During the geology section, students had the opportunity to take a “core sample” of a layered cupcake, to simulate how geologists take cores of rock to learn about the Earth’s past. When talking about meteorology, students had the opportunity to be the forecaster and make their own weather map.  There were certainly a variety of interesting maps, and there were several “severe weather fans” that put tornados all over their map! Finally, students tried their hand at being a cartographer, mapping the topography of a chocolate chip cookie “island,” while making sure to include a legend and scale, map essentials that were discussed. At the end of the presentation, students had a chance to try to “stump the weather student” in a question and answer session.

Outreach Administered by:
Katie Mercadante and Adam Cinderich

On Wednesday, January 31, members of the educational outreach committee traveled to the Jubilee Christian School in Mount Lebanon to visit Miss Booher’s sixth grade class, as a wrap up to their month long unit on weather.  Students played Weather Jeopardy and had the chance to ask any meteorology related question they may have during a Q & A session.

Last Updated: 4/24/2008
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