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Education: GK-12 Fellowship Currently, I am being funded by the Big Sky Institute (BSI) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) program. This program has paired me with a local 5th grade teacher at Ophir School in Big Sky, MT. The purpose is to develop my own communication skills as well as enhance the science curriculum at the school. During my first year as a fellow I have taught lessons on bridge design using the West Point Bridge Designer and instructed the students regarding the basics of snow science. The snow science lessons are focused on the decision making triangle, which icontains components regarding the weather, snowpack, and terrain. A complete program may be viewed by pressing the following link. Download a project online for my first year with GK-12 One requirement of this program is to develop a “lasting product”, which is a project that yields long term results that may be useful to the community, the students, and/or educators. The focus of my efforts thus far has been in the development of a snow science curriculum. The purpose of developing the document is for the advancement of snow and avalanche education. This document is currently under development, but the partially completed curriculum may be viewed by opening the following link. View the snow science curriculum (this document is under development)
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Mentoring: Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program [Program website] Additionally, the past two summers I have served as mentor for recent high school graduates performing research in our laboratory. During this time we have focused our efforts on the growth of snow micro-penitents. The work done by these students was some of the first of its kind is the basis for my ongoing research, resulted in a conference presentation, and will be the foundation of a journal article currently under development. View a copy of poster resulting from the work completed by the students
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email: slaughter@montana.edu |
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Andrew E. Slaughter PhD Candidate in Applied Mechanics, Montana State University |
