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Master Plant Science Team

Invitation to Graduate Students

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Download ESA Master Planting Science Team brochure ESA 2021 MPST Brochure [PDF]

The Ecological Society of America invites graduate students to join the 2021-22 PlantingScience Master Plant Science Team. Applications are due August 16, 2021.

The Master Plant Science Team is designed to provide compensation for a cohort of 5 graduate students who make a substantial contribution as an online scientist mentor. 

Members of the Master Plant Science Team receive:

  • free year membership to the ESA 
  • 50% off meeting registration (student rate)
  • PlantingScience T-shirt

ESA Membership and 50% Meeting Registration for MPST are sponsored by the ESA Education Section.

Joining the Team involves:

  • Participate in online mentorship training 
  • Mentor 2-3 teams via the web in both fall and spring sessions (each session lasts ~ 2 months)
  • Posting to student web pages ~3 times per week when teams are active
  • Provide extra support and facilitating communication for one classroom teacher and his/her teams

One year as a member of the Master Plant Science Team has the potential to positively affect the rest of your professional life, and inspire life-long appreciation for plant science in young learners.

How to Apply

APPLY AT http://plantingscience.org/joinmpst by August 16, 2021

Questions

Contact the PlantingScience team: psteam@plantingscience.org

Current ESA membership not required. Please pass this information on to others who might be interested.

 

 

Participating as a mentor with PlantingScience has been a tremendously valuable experience! I feel like I have an opportunity to communicate my life’s passion as a scientist and researcher to students in a medium that makes such communication possible like no other resource I have seen…

 How could any scientist not want to do this? Learning from the students and understanding how they approach scientific topics and the scientific method helps me communicate my research to a more general audience. Simply put, PlantingScience makes me a better researcher and teacher”