🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Last week teachers at the Science Summer Institute learned about CREWS Sensing for Science with Arduino boards. The goal is for the teachers to take these activities back into their classrooms and have students develop their own Arduino-based water sensors! Science Math Resource Center School Services of Montana

NSF INCLUDES awarded $10 million to the #CIRCLESAlliance, a six-state collaborative, to address the under-representation of American Indian and Alaska Native students in STEM disciplines and in the workforce. Read more here: newswise.com/articles/nd-ep…

Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Thomas, Diversity and Inclusion lead for Montana NSF EPSCoR CREWS, and all on the CIRCLES Alliance team!

Over the summer several undergraduate students participated in research and workforce development internships with CREWS faculty and partners. Check out our new blog post highlighting Gabriella Cameron, a workforce development intern with Sunburst Sensors! mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

Meet Rachel Anderson, a participant in the CREWS undergrad research internship program! Rachel used field data to examine how different factors impact gross primary productivity of streams in the Judith River Watershed. Read more about her experience at mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

Research from Montana NSF EPSCoR helps demonstrate Proficiency-based Education for STEM teachers: mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

An amazing few days at our first in-person All Hands meeting since 2019! It was wonderful to hear about all of the amazing work that CREWS researchers, students, and staff have done these past few years, and what we have to look forward to in the project's final year

Meet Teagan Leitzke, a PhD student at Montana Tech and a member of the CREWS team. In a new blog post, Teagan shares information about her work, studies, and career pathway with the Montana Girls STEM Collaborative, an outreach program of Montana NSF EPSCoR: mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

Meet Matt Nichols, a CREWS undergraduate research student! Matt worked this past summer with CREWS researchers from University of Montana to understand how nutrients impact autotrophic and heterotrophic communities in the Upper Clark Fork River. Read more at mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

Meet another one of our summer undergraduate research students, Hope Sampson! Over the summer, Hope studied concentrations of dissolved organic carbon and biota sources in the Upper Clark Fork River. Read more about her project and experience at mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

Meet Lark Olson, an undergrad researcher who worked in the Valett Lab at University of Montana. “I hope to continue to work on my project throughout this year, and maybe eventually make an undergraduate thesis out of it," says Olson about her research. Read more at mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

A new newsletter is out from the Upper Clark Fork Working Group! Read more about the group's members, past topic discussions, and upcoming events of interest conta.cc/3LRVvEd

A new newsletter is also available from the Montana Girls STEM Collaborative, an outreach program of Montana NSF EPSCoR. Read it at myemail.constantcontact.com/STEM-News-and-… NGCProject

Meet Claire Wells, an REU student who worked on CREWS research this summer, sharing that "it really helped me identify my interests while also giving me the confidence in my own abilities to do research and problem-solve on my own." Read more at mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

The Fall 2022 Montana NSF EPSCoR newsletter is now available! Learn about recent CREWS news, project and research highlights, and other exciting stories. The newsletter can be found at conta.cc/3RPWshP

Along with our undergrad research interns, CREWS and partners also hosted workforce development interns this summer! Meet Morgan Schultz, a Master's student at Montana Technological University who worked with ClarkForkCoalition to organize and analyze stream bank habitat data: mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

Meet another CREWS workforce development intern, Raina Woolworth! Raina interned with RESPEC this summer, where she conducted fieldwork and research, and helped update sections of the MT Hazard Mitigation Plan. Read more at mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

Our final CREWS workforce development intern highlight is Sam Turner, who worked with the USGS WY-MT Water Science Water to study fluxes of aquatic invertebrates in the Upper Clark Fork River. Read more about their experience at mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…

A new grant at the University of Montana aims to help increase the percentage of Indigenous, Black and other underrepresented students of color entering STEM fields. nbcmontana.com/news/local/25m…

New MT NSF EPSCoR blog post on the website about using game-based learning to help young people explore STEM pathways! Learn more about this amazing project and how MT NSF EPSCoR is supporting it: mtnsfepscor.org/project/crews/…