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Greek Teachers Tour The Netherlands
11 November 1998
After visiting Germany, the Greek teachers crossed the border to the Netherlands, where
they
were introduced to the Dutch GLOBE Program by Country Coordinator Martin Bosch. The two
groups sang a song composed in Holland, "GLOBE Homepage, Here We Come!" The Greek
participants were inspired to begin composing their own GLOBE tune!
On Thursday, the group visited Rijn-Ijsel College, a GLOBE school in Arnhem. Willem
Pas
gave a tour of the the GLOBE study sites located in adjacent woodland. In the school's
computer
lab, the visitors had their first hands-on experience with GLOBE remote sensing activit
ies. Greek
GLOBE trainers Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Athanasios Andritsos, and Nektaria Adaktilou joi
ned
Dutch trainer Willem Pas in explaining the basics of MultiSpec, which resulted in a
wonderful
piece of spontaneous international cooperation!
On Friday, the visitors got hands-on experience with the latest in science and technology at New Metropolis in Amsterdam. In the afternoon, they watched students of Bernard Nieuwentijt College perform GLOBE measurements and discussed the implementation of GLOBE in schools with the students, deputy head-master Henk Galenkamp, and GLOBE teacher Ton Reckman.
The result of this inspiring visit will be increased collaboration between Greece and Germany and Greece and The Netherlands.