ELSOL: A citizen science project for college students
16:15 - 16:30
ELSOL is a pilot project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), The objective is to improve knowledge about how to increase participation in STEM careers for minoritized individuals living in high poverty urban and rural areas seeking to transfer with an Associates of Science degree to a 4 year university. This goal will be achieved by engagement through experiential learning in which students will participate in undergraduate research citizen science project with astrobiology classes (minimesters), observations with one NASA radio telescope and data science. In this talk I will explain more details and the results for the first semester.