BAMS Highlights Weather Quest
Steve Ackerman, Jean Phillips, and Matt Sitkowski, SSEC/CIMSS members of the Weather Quest planning team, contributed to the great success of the first Weather Quest, a game-based exercise conducted at the 2011 AMS Student Conference in Seattle.
Weather Quest was celebrated (pdf file) in the May issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). The goal of the Quest was “to encourage young scientists to network with each other, take full advantage of the conference program, and encourage future conference attendance and participation in the AMS.” About 500 students attend the AMS Student Conference each year.
Student conference planners were enthusiastic about repeating Weather Quest next year because it “energized the students, made them think, and most importantly, through the ice-breaker activity during the luncheon, necessitated that they meet each other and share information about themselves and their educational goals, while at the same time, solving problems.”
