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2007 Conference Participant Information

General Information  | Pre-Conference Preparation 


Pre-Conference Preparation

All students participating in the conference were asked to complete the Participant Preparation Activity and either create an Exhibit to bring to the conference or complete the Alternative Assignment.

Participant Preparation Activity
All conference participants should have complete the Participant Preparation Activity. This activity helped participants feel comfortable with their citizen science monitoring knowledge level and enabled them to expand upon this knowledge at the conference.
Participant Preparation Activity
Participant Preparation Activity (PDF)
Participant Preparation Activity (MS Word)

Exhibit Guidelines
Each group of students participating in the conference was expected to bring a tabletop exhibit about a monitoring project they are conducting at their school. The exhibit included a poster presentation and other related materials. See the Exhibit Guidelines for details. If they had no current monitoring project on which to present an exhibit they were asked to complete the Alternate Assignment.
Exhibit Guidelines
Exhibit Guidelines (PDF)
Examples of exhibits from previous years

Alternate Assignment
If groups were not conducting a monitoring project at school, they were asked to do the following activity prior to attending the conference. Once they completed the Alternate Assignment  they EITHER:
A)   
Created a document containing the information from the Alternate Assignment and emailed it to the conference coordinator by November 12th.
B)   
Created a poster presentation that incorporated information from the Alternate Assignment. Posters were eligible to win the student selected “favorite exhibit” award.
Alternate Assignment
Alternate Assignment (PDF)
Alternate Assignment (MS Word)


Governor's High School Conference on the Environment

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