These activities were created at the 2015 SEEDS Leadership Meeting to give students an opportunity to apply what they have learned in terms of knowledge, communication and engagement. Please feel free to use, borrow or adapt at will. We welcome your suggestions on these activities and additional ideas.
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The main purpose of SEOI is to try and reach out to local residents and students in the communities that host ESA meetings. An ESA meeting will bring together about 4,000 ecologists to share their science, but there is little connection to the local community. SEEDS (Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity, and Sustainability) students recognized this gap and started putting together an outreach program two years ago, first in San Jose and then in Milwaukee. Albuquerque will be our third. This program is called the SEEDS Education and Outreach Initiative (SEOI).
SEEDS student, Zachary Brym, of the University of Michigan’s SEEDS Chapter started the National Coordinated Collegiate BioBlitz effort in hopes of coordinating campuses around the country to run their own BioBlitz. A local effort with national ties!