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Bettina Kaiser

University of Canterbury, New Zealand

German Youth Steering Committee 

Bettina started her tertiary education in Germany, studying Philosophy, English and American literature and cultural history in Berlin. After the first two years of study, she decided to go to Great Britain and pursue a B.A. degree in Philosophy at Leeds University, which she completed after one year majoring in the Philosophy of Science. Subsequently, she completed her Master’s degree at Humboldt University in Berlin over the next two years with a particular focus on nineteenth-century American rhetoric and Philosophy of Science. Whilst working for television in Germany, she decided to develop a doctoral project combining research in nineteenth-century rhetorical culture, argumentation theory and history and philosophy of science. It was then, that she became interested in the history of polar research and nineteenth-century scientific culture. Since 2005, Bettina has undertaken her PhD project at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and is the recipient of the Canterbury doctoral scholarship. Since 2006, Bettina is actively involved in education and outreach for the New Zealand Youth Steering Committee and the German initiative “Polarjugend.”

Education & Outreach

Education & Outreach

APECS is committed to integrating education and outreach into every research project we undertake. This group has been set up to share E&O ideas, thoughts, resources, etc for educating people about polar sciences.


Contact: Melianie Raymond (melianieraymond at yahoo.co.uk) or Rhian Salmon (ipy.ras at gmail.com)

Homepage:     http://groups.google.com/group/
apecs-education-and-outreach

Group email:

apecs-education-and-outreach_at_googlegroups.com

 

The APECS Education and Outreach Committee held its first meeting of the year via conference call on the 25th February. This call was attended by 12 people representing and presenting activities from 10 national groups (Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, New Zealand, Alaska, UK, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Belgium) and including two new members to the group: Megan O'Sadnick and Ken Mankoff, both from the US. The main aim of the meeting was to reconnect the national outreach groups and to update each other on our activities, which include school visits, participation in science festivals, a time capsule project capturing the Arctic through the eyes of youth, workshops for young scientists, lab open days, an exhibition linking science and art, a tribal concert, high school student expeditions to the Antarctic, and videos.  We also talked about international projects that the group will be involved with: IPY summer schools, Taking IT Global's climate campaign, IPY days and Global Youth Service Day. The group also discussed getting involved in organising celebrations to mark the end of IPY in 2009. To find out more about the activities mentioned above please read the meeting minutes or to join the APECS Education and Outreach Committee, contact Melianie or Rhian. 

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