Teaching/Mentoring/Outreach Opportunities

 

Mentoring

High School
  • Townsend Scholar: For labs interested in a high school summer intern, the Townsend scholarship provides a stipend for a high school student to work in the lab for up to 40 hours a week up to 10 weeks. This requires the supervisor of the minor to be fingerprinted and take a 30-minute online UF youth course.
College
  • Matthaei Scholar: Each summer the Matthaei Scholarship provides a stipend for an undergraduate from University of Florida in the environmental science realm.

Scientific Communication

Adults
  • Lecture/Animal Demo - Present your research to Whitney Laboratory’s volunteers. Formats that have worked in the past is a 20 -40-minute research talk with PowerPoint followed by animal display and discussion OR a 20-40-minute Research Talk followed by a tour of your lab area OR a 30- 40 minute talk followed by discussion. These talks are held on Friday’s, late August through May, and from start to finish should be at least one hour long, with 1.5 hours being the max. Start time can be 10:00 or 10:30am, ending by 12:00pm.
  • Career Day – Participate in Career Day at local high schools. Talk about your science career, career path, and/or current research. Career talks can be done in person and via zoom. Some schools have certain dates for in school career day visits and some individual classroom visits are flexible. If you are interested in participating via zoom, dates are flexible.
High School Students
  • Pedro Menendez high school marine science teacher will allow grad students to help teach in his classroom. See Brenda Cannaliato for details. Brenda@Whitney.ufl.edu
  • Career Day – Participate in Career Day at local high schools. Talk about your science career, career path, and/or current research. Career talks can be done in person and via zoom. Some schools have certain dates for in school career day visits and some individual classroom visits are flexible. If you are interested in participating via zoom, dates are flexible.