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K-12 Activities of the Affiliated Societies of the AAPG

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Recommendations

Recommendations

Within the Youth Education Activities Committee’s Purview

  1. This survey should be continued and updated including an attempt to reach those societies and surveys who did not respond.
  2. The results should be publicized through the AAPG Web site, Explorer, or by other means.
  3. At some point perhaps a "how to" manual should be prepared with items such as: how to contact the proper individuals in the school system, how to publicize your K-12 activities, how to do cooperative efforts with the State Surveys and Museums etc.
  4. Other contacts should be made with such organizations as the SEG, SPE etc. to see if they have made a similar survey of their affiliates and if so obtain a copy.
  5. A permanent e-mail list should be maintained and updated frequently.
  6. This report should be printed and mailed to all US Affiliated Societies (Recommendation by Gries)
  7. We may want to expand the questionnaire to the international affiliated societies in the future. (Recommendation by Gries)
  8. Our YEA committee should consider soliciting new members from the active K-12 societies, perhaps setting up a Sub-Committee on K-12 Affiliated Society activities and get these people talking to each other (Recommendation by Gries)

Outside the Youth Education Activities Purview

  1. A similar survey should be made as to what the societies are doing in outreach beyond K-12. This probably should be done by the Public Outreach Committee.
  2. Somewhere, not just on the AAPG’s Web site, there should be published a list of the Web sites for all of the Affiliated Societies.
  3. The Membership Committee should increase their efforts to recruit those presidents of Affiliated Societies who are not members of the AAPG.