Mission STEMCAP is a programming series in which STEMCAP staff and guest presenters work with students over a span of two weeks to focus on one of the five environmental “Grand Challenges” of today: biodiversity loss, pollution, overconsumption, extinction, and climate disruption.
The “mission” is to help students learn about, respond to, and teach others about their assigned grand challenge through multiple workshops, activities, and lectures while demonstrating to students the ways that they can tackle grand challenges in their own lives.
Extinction
Schedule At-A-Glance
Day 1: Frame The Challenge
Day 2: Documentary Film – Racing Extinction
Day 3: Documentary Film- Racing Extinction, film discussion
Day 4: Art/ Science Workshop – Creative Writing, Found Poems
Day 5: Science Right Now – Dr. Bill Newmark, Local Extinction
Day 6: CorRESPONDence – Communicating about Environmental Challenges
Day 7: Utah Museum of Fine Arts – Virtual Museum Tour
Day 8: Art/Science Workshop – Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Thaumatropes
Day 9: Student Symposium
Biodiversity Loss
Schedule At-A-Glance
Day 1: Frame The Challenge
Day 2: Documentary Film – Racing Extinction
Day 3: Science Right Now – Conservation Biology
Day 4: Utah Museum of Fine Arts – Virtual Museum Tour
Day 5: Art/Science Workshop- Creative Writing – Collage
Day 6: Art/Science Workshop – Thaumatropes
Day 7: Science Right Now – Ants
Day 8: CorRESPONDence – Communicating about Environmental Challenges
Day 9: Symposium
Climate Change
Schedule At-A-Glance
Day 1: Frame The Challenge
Day 2: Documentary Film – Chasing Ice
Day 3: Science Right Now – Trees – Steven Kannenberg
Day 4: Art/Science Workshop – Creative Writing – Haiku
Day 5: Art/Science Workshop – Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Day 6: Utah Museum of Fine Arts – Virtual Museum Tour
Day 7: CorRESPONDence – Letter Writing
Day 8: Student Symposium
Pollution
Day 1: Frame The Challenge
Day 2: Documentary Film – Sonic Sea
Day 3: Documentary Film – Sonic Sea, film discussion
Day 4: Art/Science Workshop – Creative Writing, Found Poems
Day 5: Science Right Now – Environmental Justice, Dr. Sara Grineski
Day 6: Science Right Now – Solar Power, Brenna George
Day 7: Utah Museum of Fine Arts – Virtual Museum Tour
Day 8: Art/Science Workshop – Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Air Pollution,
Day 9: CorRESPONDence – Communicating about Environmental Challenges
Day 10: Student Symposium
Overconsumption
Day 1: Frame The Challenge
Day 2: Documentary Film – A Life on Our Planet
Day 3: Documentary Series- A Life on Our Planet, film discussion
Day 4: Science Right Now – Technology and Water, Tiana Birrell
Day 5: Utah Museum of Fine Arts – Virtual Museum Tour
Day 6: Art/Science workshop – Creative Reuse, Josh Graham
Day 7: Art/Science workshop – Creative Writing
Day 8: Science Right Now – Environmental Justice
Day 9: CorRESPONDence – Communicating about Environmental Challenges
Day 10: Student Symposium
