Master Plant Science Team: A Sponsored Opportunity for Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Researchers
Applications for the 2020-2021 Master Plant Science Team are now open!
Are you a graduate student or post-doctoral researcher interested in a chance to get involved and trained in K-12 outreach?
Would you like to mentor student research teams, without ever leaving your desk?
Do you have a handful of hours per week to commit during BOTH the Fall and Spring PlantingScience Sessions?Responsibilities:
- Participate in online mentorship training
- Mentor 2-3 student teams via the web during BOTH fall (September-November) and Spring (February-April) sessions
- Serve as a PlantingScience liaison in EITHER Fall or Spring:
- Work closely with an assigned middle or high school teacher.
- Help the teacher select and communicate with other scientist mentors.
- Help monitor a teachers’ teams and step into conversations as necessary to keep all conversations going strong.
- Submit weekly liaison reports on the progress of your teachers’ teams.
- Nominate the best of your teacher’s teams for star project awards.
- Provide feedback to staff and mentor team
Benefits:
- Inspire middle and high school students with a new appreciation for plants and science
- Give back to K-12 education and support innovative teachers in their efforts to bring real science to their students
- Gain communication and mentoring experience and skills
- Sponsored benefits by participating scientific societies include free membership and other benefits (see society brochures for details).
- PlantingScience t-shirt
Choose a Sponsor:
- Botanical Society of America sponsors graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.
Applications are due August 10, 2020.
- American Society of Plant Biologists sponsors graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.
Applications are due August 10, 2020.
- Canadian Botanical Association/L'Association Botanique du Canada sponsors graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.
Applications are due August 10, 2020.
- Ecological Society of America sponsors graduate students only.
Applications are due August 7, 2020.
- The American Society of Agronomy/Crop Science Society of America/Soil Science Society of America will sponsor only graduate students who have previously been members of one of these societies.
Download ASA/CSSA/SSSA brochure.
Applications are due August 10, 2020.
- The American Phytopathological Society will sponsor 1 graduate student or postdoc.
Applications are due August 10, 2020.
To apply, you'll need to provide:
- which Society you’d like to sponsor you,
- your complete contact information,
- a paragraph describing your interests/reasons for wanting to join the mentoring team,
- a brief list of your previous mentoring and outreach experience, and
- what probing questions or comments from you as an online mentor might help guide an example team to think critically about their research ideas?
Apply to the Master Plant Science Team now!Applications are due August 10, 2020. Please refer to the brochures above. Click here for examples of student projects.
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