"Learning By Doing" at the Bottom of the World

National Science Foundation
Office of Polar Programs
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230

Posted December 27, 2017

Image: Erica Wallstrom, NSF

Through a grant to the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College, OPP supports two opportunities for U.S. high-school students to travel to the polar regions and participate in hands-on and inquiry-based science activities.

The Joint Antarctic School Expedition (JASE), a program jointly sponsored by the Chilean Antarctic Institute’s Expedición Antártica Escolar, takes students to Antarctica.

This year’s Antarctic visit was recently completed and included a tour of Torres del Paine National Park, Puerto del Hambre and facilities of the Instituto Antártico Chileno (Chilean Antarctic Institute/INACH) on King George Island.

For information about future JASE deployments and deadlines, as well as information about the opportunity for students to deploy to Greenland this summer, through the Joint Science Education Project (JSEP), please see:

JASE: https://dickey.dartmouth.edu/environment/programs/joint-antarctic-school-expedition

And

JSEP: https://dickey.dartmouth.edu/joint-science-education-project