Stars and STEM Stories

In the fall of 2024, more than 300 K–5 students at Pearl Creek Elementary in Fairbanks, Alaska, collected over 660 green-down measurements for the North American Phenology Campaign. In the past 5 years, Pearl Creek Elementary has collected more than 1,300 green-down measurements through a partnership with GLOBE Alaska and the University of Alaska’s International Arctic Research Center (IARC).   >>

A student shares her experience representing her school's research group during the October 2024 GLOBE Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Regional Meeting and presenting their work in gathering data on the impacts that mangrove logging has had on the Parque Espíritu del Manglar.  >>

The Italian school Istituto Comprensivo Statale E. De Amicis – Marcallo con Casone and the Croatian school Dubovac Primary School, Karlovac, both members of the GLOBE Program, have decided to start a cooperative relationship during the 2024–25 school year.   >>

The Estonian GLOBE community has developed a board game to promote the GLOBE Program and the world of research through various science questions. Students from 29 Estonian schools participated in creating the game.  >>

In December 2024, the GLOBE Oman program supervisor and school activities specialist implemented an environmental program titled “My Environment, My Teacher.” The students’ data resulting from the implementation of Atmosphere and Hydrosphere Protocols in the GLOBE program was used as evidence of the change in temperature and rainfall over the past years. Students made the connection between their research and the over use of plastics.  >>

The 18th Annual GLOBE Project Exhibition Competition, where senior secondary students from Federal Unity Colleges throughout Nigeria showcased innovative climate solutions, was held 16–18 January 2025. Seventeen schools with a total of 72 participants (teachers and students) made it to the grand finale. Find out who won.  >>

Supervisors and students from GLOBE/SERVIR clubs were trained in December 2024 in GLOBE soil protocols to help them discover the relationships between the soil and living beings and agriculture.  >>

Under the patronage of the directorate general of education and in the presence of the national coordinator of the GLOBE Program in Oman and the coordinator of the GLOBE Oman in Dhahirah Governorate, the annual GLOBE Program forum for schools in Dhahirah Governorate took place on 7 January 2025. Fifty students from four schools participated.  >>

Three students from Břidličná Elementary School began researching the conductivity, pH, temperature, and nitrate concentrations at multiple sites along the 7-km-long stream that crosses three villages using GLOBE Hydrosphere Protocols. Their research revealed high levels of contaminants. These findings have been presented at international conferences and made their way to political leaders who are using them to make decisions to better the lives of Czech Republic residents.  >>

Science educator Jennifer Schmitt's students collect data from frost tubes and measure snowfall to determine if their region is experiencing environmental changes. The school is just east of Lake Erie, which has a history of high amounts of snowfall every year due to lake effect snow. Learn more about the students' observations.  >>