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Shelly Hynes

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Expeditions: Greenland Education Tour 2012
Occupation: Einstein Fellow
Organization: Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts
Website: My Personal Blog

Shelly Hynes is the US Science Education Week Leader.
Before being named a 2011 – 2012 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, Shelly F. Hynes taught Astronomy and Physics at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts (LSMSA) in Natchitoches, LA for 10 years. She received her B.S. in Physics from Northwestern State University and a M.S. in Physics with a minor in Chemical Engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. At LSMSA she is most passionate about individual mentorship of students via science research. Shelly sponsors the Regional, State and Intel International Science and Engineering Fair competitions at LSMSA and prepares students for the Siemens Competition and Intel Science Talent Search. In 2006 her research student was named an Intel Science Talent Search Finalist and for her mentorship, Mrs. Hynes received the honor of having asteroid 1998 HC96 renamed to 22586 Shellyhynes. As an Einstein Fellow Shelly coordinates the US component of the Joint Science Education Project, a student field expedition to Greenland. She recently finished an expedition to Antarctica where she held webcasts with students from Louisiana.

Shelly Hynes's Content

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presentations

All presentations are uploaded. I still have to upload our Summit video

{read more} 		July 24, 2012 - 11:13am
presentations

Thanks Susan. Its going to take me awhile to upload all of the presentations. Some are quite large and I'm going to have to edit them so they will fit on the website. Since we are leaving for Summit tomorrow this will have to wait until after the 16th at the earliest. But I will eventually...{read more}

July 12, 2012 - 3:59pm
hi Mrs.Seff! Its Dana, Shelly

hi Mrs.Seff!
Its Dana, Shelly was nice enough to let me write you back! The mud fight was so much fun and the best part was getting to see all the fossils we found befre it started. I love just being on the ice. we went to see the glaciers a few times and although it was cold it was...{read more}

July 10, 2012 - 2:27pm
Permafrost

Thanks Cristina!

The students were supposed to go dig for permafrost today but the research group couldn't do it today. We hope we can reschedule for July 10. I'll keep you and everyone else updated. Thanks!

{read more} 		July 7, 2012 - 10:58am
Greenland Expedition

Linda, thanks for your comments! We have one student, Dana Cucci from East Hampton, NY. Send me your email, Dana is required to do outreach after she gets home, she might be interested in working with you to fulfill this component of the project. Feel free to contact me via Facebook, I'll put...{read more}

July 5, 2012 - 4:10pm
more to come

Tonight I'll be posting student projects from today. Each group wrote up a report. And I didn't edit them!

{read more} 		July 1, 2012 - 10:26am
Thanks Linda. We hiked to a

Thanks Linda. We hiked to a lake today and saw the edge of the glacier from the top of the mountain and saw two reindeer including a baby, so there time here has started off with a bang! One of the girls has agreed to make a post this evening.

{read more} 		June 28, 2012 - 12:17pm
videos

Thanks! Kasper, the Field School Coordinator is requiring the students to create video reports of their research. Those will come together in the middle of the program and I will post them for everyone to view.

Other students have created powerpoint presentations to introduce themselves...{read more}

June 27, 2012 - 5:04pm
Time

We just arrived in Kanger today and JSEP will officially begin on Friday, June 29. Two students from two different countries will post something everyday.

{read more} 		June 27, 2012 - 5:06pm
RE: [PolarTREC] third times the charm

Finally got this to work. Thanks!

{read more} 		February 9, 2012 - 11:08am

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