{"id":259,"date":"2020-07-09T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T20:13:09","slug":"education-outreach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/programs-at-cmast\/education-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\">\n<figure class=\"size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/07\/prog-edoutreach-vicky.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/prog-edoutreach-vicky.png 350w, https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/prog-edoutreach-vicky-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Vicky Thayer educates the public about whale vertebrae<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>We maintain collaborative partnerships with educational institutions, school systems, and community partners through grants and professional development agreements that directly support area school districts by providing professional development opportunities and classroom support. In this way, we bring coastal connections to classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>K-12 activities at CMAST range from \u201cDolphin CSI\u201d to understand why a particular dolphin may have been stranded on the beach, to beach seining to collect animals and understand how they survive, to seafood technology activities that allow students to \u201ctaste test\u201d new seafood products, to participating in local and regional science contests.<a href=\"http:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/prog-ed-outreach.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\">\n<figure class=\"size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/07\/prog-ed-outreach.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CMAST Ph.D. Paul Rudershausen provides educational outreach to a young scientist.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Education Outreach at CMAST also provides quality teacher professional development, scientific equipment loans, educational materials, programs and activities to support formal and informal education both in and out of the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Programs at CMAST regularly blur the line between Education Outreach, Research and Extension activities. For example, research by the Seafood Technology Program is routinely communicated and applied in the seafood industry via extension activities. The Animal Health program routinely provides clinical care for animals at the NC Aquarium System and Jean Beardsley Sea Turtle Hospital, and research in fisheries and marine ecology is applied by state and federal fishery managers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We maintain collaborative partnerships with educational institutions, school systems, and community partners through grants and professional development agreements that directly support area school districts by providing professional development opportunities and classroom support. In this way, we bring coastal connections to classrooms. 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