2018 NC-FEW Planning Conference

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Participants in the 2018 NC-FEW Planning Meeting

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On May 22-23 of 2018, the two-day, national, invited Innovating Teaching and Learning in the Food-Energy-Water-Nexus: Toward a National Collaborative for Food, Energy, & Water Systems Education (NC-FEW) conference was held in the Washington, D.C. metro area at the Virginia Tech Executive Briefing Center.The conference was funded through the USDA-NIFA Higher Education Challenge grant program, APLU's Network of STEM Education Centers Research Action Cluster grant program, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Agricultural Research Division, and Virginia Tech in the National Capital Region.  The program included 1) keynote talks by experts, 2) time for networking, 3) facilitated group discussions/workshops, and 4) an interactive poster session.  Nearly 50 conference participants representing over 40 institutions had opportunities to share their research and engage with colleagues from a diverse array of disciplinary backgrounds (education, STEM disciplines, agriculture, natural resources) to articulate and shape discourse around a systemic approach to FEW-Nexus education and education research. Invited speakers, including INFEWS program officers Rachel Melnick (formerly with USDA-NIFA) and Tom Torgersen (NSF), Kacy Redd (APLU/NSEC), and Jeff Weld (White House Office of Science and Technology Policy).  The conference planning committee was comprised of current NC-FEW Co-PIs and personnel, Cory Forbes, Hannah Scherer, Hui-Hui Wang, and Nicole Sintov , and Christine Li, as well as NCDC231 Committee member Kelly Millenbah.  The work undertaken as this conference, as well as deliverables generated by conference participants, contributed directly to the now-funded NSF INFEWS RCN proposal supporting NC-FEW.  A special thanks to Lindsay Augustyn from the UNL Center for Science, Math, and Computer Education (CSMCE) for helping coordinate and facilitate the conference. 

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2018 meeting participants discussing a research poster.

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A presenter speaks to the assembled 2018 meeting participants.

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2018 meeting participants discussing a research poster.

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2018 meeting participants working in a small group.

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