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STEMExplore Virtual Career Connection with Dr. Theresa Guilette

by  EarthEcho International

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Join EarthEcho International as we highlight relatable voices in STEM careers! With STEMExplore, we invite female professionals to share their STEM journey with a live audience during dynamic 45-minute virtual events. The conversation will focus on women in STEM and the STEMExplore Mentor will share her personal journey and the positive influences that helped her to realize her professional capabilities.

During this 45-minute session, the participants will:
- Learn about environmental health and toxicology as a career in general;
- Observe the day to day tasks of a toxicologist;
- Gain insight into a STEM career and learn the steps it takes to become a professional in this area;
- Ask interview questions of the STEMExplore expert.

Topic/Career: Toxicology, Environmental Sciences

STEMExplore Mentor: Dr. Theresa Guillette Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University

Environmental toxicologists are scientists who try to understand how living organisms are affected by pollution. Do they get sick more often? Are they unable to have babies? Do they act in a way that they aren’t supposed to act? Some environmental toxicologists collect information from living organisms that are exposed to pollution “in the wild” while others try to ask questions in the laboratory under very controlled conditions. Both types of toxicologists often work together to figure out if pollution can harm living organisms and they can work in many different organizations, including university, federal government, industry, and state government laboratories.

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This program is FREE of charge. STEMExplore is generously supported by United Technologies, Inc.

Length

45 minutes


Target Audience

Education: Grade(s) 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Adult LearnersPublic Library: Library Patrons

Minimum participants:

1

Maximum participants:

N/A


Primary Disciplines

Career Education, Community Interests, Health/Physical Education, Industrial Technology, Literacy, Problem Solving, Sciences, Service Learning, Technology/Information Science


Program Delivery Mode

Zoom



Booking Information

This live virtual event is only available on Friday, February 21, 2020 at 5:00 PM EASTERN.

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Provider's Cancellation Policy

Our Virtual Career Connections and live streams are open to everyone. Each event will focus on specific science standards for middle and/or high school students, but will be enjoyable and informative for a wide range of audiences. We’d love it if you could watch for the duration and ask questions, but it is not required.

About This Provider

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EarthEcho International

Washington, D.C.
United States

EarthEcho collaborates with youth and educators around the world to provide knowledge and develop tools that drive meaningful environmental action to protect and restore our ocean planet. Reaching more than 2 million people in 146 countries, we support the next generation to become environmental leaders who will transform the future.

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Contact:
Kasey Gaylord-Opalewski
kasey@earthecho.org
202-350-3190

Program Details

Format

A STEMExplore Virtual Career Connection with Dr. Theresa Guillette Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University.

1. This program will begin with a brief overview of EarthEcho International and STEM careers
2. The featured STEMExplore Mentor will tell us their story, where they came from and how they became interested in their career.
3. We will learn about the STEMExplore Mentor's career and how their work contributes to a sustainable future.
4. Participants will be able to ask questions and interact with the featured speaker via chat and interactive video.

Objectives

During this 45-minute session, the participants will:
- Learn about environmental health and toxicology as a career in general;
- Observe the day to day tasks of a toxicologist;
- Gain insight into a STEM career and learn the steps it takes to become a professional in this area;
- Ask interview questions of the STEMExplore expert.

Standards Alignment

National Standards

NGSS STANDARDS :
MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems • Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species. But changes to Earth’s environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things. • Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.

MS-ESS3-4. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.


Ocean Literacy Principles (OLP):
Principle 6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected.
The ocean affects every human life. It supplies freshwater (most rain comes from the ocean) and nearly all Earth’s oxygen. The ocean moderates the Earth’s climate, influences our weather, and affects human health.
Everyone is responsible for caring for the ocean. The ocean sustains life on Earth and humans must live in ways that sustain the ocean. Individual and collective actions are needed to effectively manage ocean resources for all.