UROP Project

Geoscience, Science Education, summer camp, place-based learning

Research Mentor: Dr. Amanda Tazaz, She/her/hers
Department, College, Affiliation: Learning Systems Institute, N/A
Contact Email: atazaz@fsu.edu
Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from mentor):
Research Assistant Supervisor Email:
Faculty Collaborators:
Faculty Collaborators Email:

Looking for Research Assistants: Maybe one more
Number of Research Assistants: 2
Relevant Majors: Open to all majors.
Project Location: On FSU Main Campus
Research Assistant Transportation Required:
Remote or In-person: Partially Remote
Approximate Weekly Hours: 5-10,
Roundtable Times and Zoom Link: Roundtable Information Time:
Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 at 4pm
Thursday, September 5th, 2024 at 4pm
Zoom Link: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/91834844475
Zoom Meeting ID: 918 3484 4475

Project Description

I am looking for assistance in one of the following two areas for the project.

Activity Development:
In this project, we will create a geoscience summer camp program focused on local environmental challenges that will be implemented with middle and high school students in the Boys and Girls Club of the Big Bend. The aim of this project is to provide exposure and hands-on-research opportunities in geoscience to historically underrepresented students. The project will develop summer camp activities focused on the following 4 topics: rising sea level and coastal management, ground water and the karst aquifer, river management, and natural hazards (such as storms). This project is flexible and I am open to allowing my UROP mentee to select which topic they would like to focus on.

Social Media and Video Development:
For this project we would like to develop a webpage and a couple of short video footage/ video content that we could use to promote the project. We have the raw footage available to be edited and curated into final content.

Research Tasks: Activity Development: Literature review, summer camp activity development, piloting activities developed for the program.
Social media/video development: video data review, editing, curation of final product.


Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Ability to work independently and in groups.
Time management skills.
Strong communication skills.