February 7–10, 2019 | Towson, Maryland 34th Annual MAEOE Environmental Education Conference Welcome to the 2019 MAEOE Conference! Full STEAM Ahead: Expanding the Potential of Environmental Education We hope that you will expand your Environmental Education-STEAM connections at the 34th MAEOE Conference! E-STEAM is about expanding ideas and creating. It is also about helping students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills that will lead to 21st Century jobs. E-STEAM can prepare students to transform systems, conserve resources, and make decisions that will lead to a sustainable future. We hope that you will explore the STEAM Festival on Friday evening, enjoy the speakers that will open doors to connect STEAM and the environment, try out a field experience on Friday or Sunday, and connect with colleagues throughout the conference! We can’t wait to hear about the E-STEAM connections that you make! Laura Johnson Collard - Executive Director, MAEOE MAEOE Advisory Council Chair Welcome! We welcome you to the 34th Annual MAEOE Conference. MAEOE has had some changes this year that we would like to take this opportunity to share with you. One significant change has been to our organizational structure. This change should be seamless to our members and stakeholders, but has been put in place to strengthen the organization and build our capacity for the future. As of October 2018, MAEOE now has an Advisory Council and Board of Directors. The Advisory Council is comprised of experts in the field of outdoor and environmental education. They are charged with developing strategies to ensure that Maryland remains a leader in environmental and outdoor education by supporting the MAEOE staff with keystone projects like the conference and Maryland Green Schools Youth Summit. The newly formed Board of Directors is made up of a variety of environmental, business, and education professionals tasked with connecting MAEOE to stakeholders who would be interested in supporting our organization through investment and partnerships that strengthen the organization’s capacity for the future. As the Board of Directors and the Advisory Council work together to support MAEOE’s mission to encourage, engage, and empower our community to understand, responsibly use, and promote the natural world, the Maryland Green Schools program continues to grow. The program reaches approximately 200,000 students and provides the school with a structure that teaches kids to conserve water and energy, manage waste, and protect and improve the habitat at their school and in the community. Talk to us at the Conference! Ask us about ways you can support MAEOE though volunteering, partnerships or even joining the Board or Advisory Council. Katrina Y. Jones, MDOT MPA - Advisory Council Chair Table of Contents Message from the Conference Chair 2 Our Commitment Schedule at a Glance 3 to a Clean Bay Keynote Speaker 4 Thursday Professional Development Workshops 7 Dairy farmers live on or near the land that they farm. They understand that practicing environmental Friday Workshops 9 stewardship is not only good for their farms, their communities and their bottom line— Saturday Workshop Offerings Grid 12 it’s the right thing to do. Saturday Workshops 13 Visit americandairy.com to learn more. Robert A. Finton Award 23 Conference Exhibitors 25 /AmericanDairyNE /AmericanDairy Message from the Conference Chair, Juliann Dupuis Our conference theme, Full STEAM Ahead: Expanding the Potential of Environmental Education, will highlight and promote ways in which STEAM education can be taught through the lens of environmental education. We are excited to bring together so many regional educators, scientists, organizations, and environmental providers to promote the integration of STEAM content areas and important environmental topics. With over 50 presentations and 30+ exhibitors, you are sure to walk away with many new resources and partnerships. This year, we are excited to present keynote speaker Keith Williams during our Saturday lunch as well as our STEAM panel of experts on Thursday afternoon. An additional highlight of this year’s conference is the STEAM Festival with Sujan Shrestha as the conference opening speaker on Friday night. The theme of this year’s conference is an important one in today’s society. With an ever -growing need for STEM professionals, it is important that we cultivate generations of students who see the value and importance in sustaining our environment. We need innovative and creative thinkers, who are willing to take risks in order to create solutions to our current and future environmental dilemmas. We encourage you to use this weekend as an opportunity to network, engage in new ideas, discussions and activities, that will inspire you to enact this new-found knowledge in your own areas of education. Juliann Dupuis - 2019 MAEOE Conference Chair Towson Welcomes MAEOE Student STEAM Model Exhibit This year, we are excited to be back in Towson. We are looking forward to Enjoy displays created by students focusing on various aspects of STEAM highlighting the many local organizations and natural resources the Baltimore education located throughout the Conference Center. At the time of publication area has to offer through field experiences, community gatherings, student STEAM students from North Bay; Oklahoma Road Middle School, Carroll County; Ridgely displays, a service project and many other great events throughout the weekend. Middle School, Baltimore County; Barclay Elementary Middle School, Baltimore Make sure to take advantage of the many opportunities that the conference City have provided their STEAM projects and posters for us to see. provides to explore the greater Baltimore area and learn more from the amazing community of experts and professionals here at the MAEOE Conference. STEAM Festival Free to all Registered Conference Attendees. Friends and family are welcome Conference Opening Speaker, Friday Evening ($5 per person or $20 for a family or group up to 6 people). Join in the Festival for a series of drop-in events where you can collaborate with one another to before the STEAM FESTIVAL solve engineering and design tasks during the STEAM Festival, Friday, Fitzgerald Sujan Shrestha is our Opening Speaker. He is an assistant Ballroom 6:30 to 9:00 pm. professor in the Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore. Professor Shrestha’s research focuses in the broad area of teaching and Friday HAPPY HOUR, Exhibit Hall Welcome, STEAM learning through games and digital interactive technologies. Festival! At the University of Baltimore’s Simulation and Game Design Join us on Friday for Happy Hour 5:00 to 6:30 pm in the Exhibit Hall. Pick up your program, he teaches game development and game theory drink ticket upon registration. Enjoy heavy appetizers, free drink and cash bar, courses in developing meaningful technology to help others. catch up with new and old MAEOE friends while visiting with our exhibitors in the In 2014, he established the UB Game Lab, a multi-purpose Warfield’s Ballroom. interdisciplinary laboratory to support students in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) through the arts (STEAM). Saturday Night Trivia - End of Conference Celebration Friday Service Project Close out the 2019 MAEOE Conference with trivia night! Form your own team or Masonville Cove is the Nation’s 1st National Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership. It join one for an entertaining evening of trivia in the Sheraton restaurant: Rain 903! is a site which has been described as a place to create and strengthen personal Grab some food and/or drinks at the bar and join in an evening full of fun and connections to the local environment! On behalf of the Masonville Cove partner friends! organizations (the Maryland Port Administration, Living Classrooms Foundation and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), please join the National Aquarium in giving Silent Auction back to this incredible gem of South Baltimore through community science and Support our Scholarship Fund, bid on items such as books, gift certificates, arts community service. We will see various habitat, species and the water quality and crafts, environmental or educational objects or just fun and zany items! Funds monitoring techniques that we use in programs and conclude with a debris clean- generated from the silent auction benefit the MAEOE conference scholarship up along the shoreline (tide permitting)! You will be outside! fund. Local Field Experiences Thursday afternoon, Friday, and Sunday morning Select from a variety of field experiences to expand your personal knowledge of T Thank you to Krystal Carpintieri, satellite use in EE, Farming and the Environment, Birding, Maple Sugaring, Garden Visual Designer, for the cover Tour and more! H Y design and conference logo. A special thank you to our field excursion sites this year: Dairy Farm in Union Bridge, Cromwell Valley Park, Oregon Ridge, Lake Roland, Ladew Gardens, A O Maryland Agricultural Resource Council, Irvine Nature Center, and NASA Goddard. N U Thank you to Karen Jackson, Thursday Night Networking Social photographer, for the beautiful Join us at Lake Roland Nature Center for some hot appetizers, wintry drinks and photos. then s’mores over a campfire to kick off the first day of the 34th annual MAEOE K conference! This casual affair is from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Prepayment required. $25/ person. Check at Registration for more information. 2 Schedule at a Glance Date Time Event Location