Project TRUE Year 1 Poster

March 1st, 2016 | RESEARCH

This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. Through a unique university-zoo partnership, Project TRUE engages New York City high school students in authentic urban ecology field research in the surrounding metropolitan area. Central to the project design is a tiered mentorship model, in which Fordham University professors mentor undergraduate and graduate ecology students, who in turn mentor high school students from communities underrepresented in STEM fields. Project TRUE also pairs the university students with informal science educators at WCS zoos. This builds the university students’ capacity to communicate research to public audiences, while increasing the zoo educators’ science knowledge.

Document

TRUE-Poster-for-AISL-PI-Meeting-DRL-1421017-March-2016-final.pdf

Team Members

Karen Tingley, Principal Investigator, Wildlife Conservation Society
James Lewis, Co-Principal Investigator, Fordham University
Brian Johnson, Co-Principal Investigator, Wildlife Conservation Society
Alan Clark, Co-Principal Investigator, Fordham University
Jason Munshi-South, Contributor, Fordham University
Jason Aloisio, Contributor, Wildlife Conservation Society
Joe E Heimlich, Contributor, Lifelong Learning Group
Rachel Becker-Klein, Evaluator, PEER Associates

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL, ITEST
Award Number: 1421017

Related URLs

Collaborative Research: Project TRUE (Teens Researching Urban Ecology

Tags

Access and Inclusion: Urban
Audience: Educators | Teachers | Evaluators | Museum | ISE Professionals | Undergraduate | Graduate Students | Youth | Teen (up to 17)
Discipline: Ecology | forestry | agriculture
Resource Type: Conference Proceedings | Reference Materials
Environment Type: Aquarium and Zoo Programs | Higher Education Programs | Informal | Formal Connections | Public Programs