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USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state.

Wyoming Water Science Center Outreach and Education

Each year USGS Outreach teams in Wyoming visit with hundreds of school-age children and adults to provide information about water, geology and earth science. Our activities range from designing activities for kindergarten classes to making presentations at conferences. We visit individual classrooms and participate in large festivals with thousands of students. We tailor our activities to be appropriate for different age groups and interests: stories for children, activities for older children, and interactive multimedia presentations for high school students and adults.

If you are a school teacher, festival/conference organizer or civic club member/officer, we would be glad to come share the facts about water and earth science with your class, festival or civic group. We also have some material available for use by teachers and for adult reference and self study.

Please contact our outreach coordinator to schedule a visit by our Outreach Team or to inquire about the availability of educational materials.

Wyoming Water Science Center Outreach Activities

Science Olympiad

The USGS partners with the Groundwater Foundation and other agencies and organizations to help make Science Olympiad events possible. Science Olympiad is a nonprofit organization devoted to improving the quality of science education, increasing student interest in science, and providing recognition for outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. These goals are accomplished through classroom activities, research, training workshops, and the encouragement of intramural, district, regional, state, and national tournaments.

Science Olympiad tournaments are academic competitions that consist of a series of individual and team events which students prepare for during the school year. These competitions are balanced among the various science disciplines of biology, earth science, chemistry, physics, computers, and technology.

Water Festival

The Wyoming Children's Water Festival brings together fourth and fifth grade students from throughout the state to learn about the importance of water. The goal of the Wyoming Children's Water Festival is to teach children that water has many different forms and functions and gives them tools with which to protect this precious resource.

2007 Activities

The Wyoming Water Science Center continued to participate in a variety of outreach activities during the past year. The Center continued to maintain Wyoming congressional contacts, primarily through personal contact with staffers at water-related meetings around the state attended by both the USGS and the staffers. Additionally, any press releases generated by the Center are forwarded to the congressional staffers. The Center also continued its tradition of educational involvement. In addition to several classroom presentations, the Center participated in the following statewide activities.

October 24 and 25, 2006: Cheryl Miller and Greg Boughton participated in the two-day Water Festival sponsored by the City of Torrington.

October 6, 2006, Nolan Friday and Cheryl Miller participated in the Women in Science conference in Riverton, Wyoming at the request of the National Weather Service. The conference was targeted to junior high and high school girls from around the state, with emphasis on the nearby Wind River Indian Reservation.

2006 Activities

April 1, 2006: Cheryl Miller was the event supervisor and judge for the Wyoming Science Olympiad’s Awesome Aquifer and Water Quality competitions.

December 2005-January 2006: The Center was able to capitalize on its participation in the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project. Kirk Miller and Ray Woodruff supported the LTER “Stream Team.” Prior to Kirk and Ray’s departure to Antarctica, the Center developed a web site (http://wy.water.usgs.gov/projects/antarctica/index.htm) that detailed the project, and chronicled the journey and work of Kirk and Ray. The web site was well received by the LTER team and USGS Headquarters and was a featured site on the national USGS web page (http://www.usgs.gov/) for several weeks in January. While still in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys in early January, Kirk had the opportunity to describe the USGS role in the LTER to a visiting delegation of US senators and representatives including Senators McCain, Collins, Sununu, and Representative Boehlert. The following week, Kirk spoke again on similar topics to a visiting delegation sponsored by the National Science Foundation, including Pat Leahy. A presentation to local school children and one at the Laramie County Library to describe the trip and the work have been tentatively scheduled for Kirk in the upcoming months.

The Center continued to participate in maintaining Wyoming congressional contacts, primarily through personal contact with staffers at water-related meetings around the state attended by both the USGS and the staffers. Additionally, any press releases generated by the Center are forwarded to the congressional staffers.  Myron Brooks visited offices of the Wyoming congressional delegation in Washington in May 2005.
The Center also continued its tradition of educational involvement. In addition to several classroom presentations, the Center participated in the following statewide activities.

October 24 and 25, 2005: Cheryl Miller and Mike Sweat participated in the two-day Water Festival sponsored by the City of Torrington.

October 21, 2005: Nolan Friday and Cheryl Miller participated in the Women in Science conference in Riverton, Wyoming at the request of the National Weather Service. The conference was targeted to high school girls from around the state, with emphasis on the nearby Wind River Indian Reservation.

2005 Activities

March 19, 2005: Cheryl Miller judged the Awesome Aquifer competition as part of the Wyoming Science Olympiad in Casper.

Contact Information

Cheryl Eddy Miller
USGS Project Manager
521 Progress Circle, Suite 6
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82007
(307) 775-9167
Email: cemiller@usgs.gov

For more educational information, visit The U.S. Geological Survey's Learning Web, a great site for both students and teachers.