{"id":4698,"date":"2014-09-13T10:49:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2014-09-13T12:26:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T17:26:37","slug":"cdc-science-ambassador-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=4698","title":{"rendered":"CDC Science Ambassador Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Group-Picture_CDC-Sign1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Group-Picture_CDC-Sign1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Group Picture_CDC Sign\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This summer I had the opportunity to participate in the 2014 CDC Ambassador Training. \u00a0Twenty teachers from across the US spent a week in Atlanta, GA attending seminars held by\u00a0CDC scientists.\u00a0 Each day we would tour something \u2013 the Spencer Museum, research laboratories, the CDC Library, the CDC campus, etc.\u00a0 This was an amazing chance to see how the CDC works and obtain real-life examples of epidemiology and public health careers to bring back to the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>While there, participants are placed on teams with CDC specialists.\u00a0 You work together to create lesson plans which will (after the clearance process) will appear on the CDC website.<\/p>\n<p>The application process was surprisingly easy (applications are not available yet, but plan on applying around Spring Break):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>letter of rec from your administrator\/department chair<\/li>\n<li>personal statement (less than 2 pages)<\/li>\n<li>resume<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Resources which may interest you are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CDC lesson plans for middle &amp; high school, created by past participants:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/excite\/ScienceAmbassador\/ambassador_pgm\/lessonplans.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/excite\/ScienceAmbassador\/ambassador_pgm\/lessonplans.htm<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I have compiled a list of lesson plan abstracts here: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/CDC-Ambassador-Web-Lesson-Plan-Topics.docx\">CDC Ambassador Web Lesson Plan Topics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>PHIL (public health information library) with a wealth of images FREE to use (and accurate!):\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/phil.cdc.gov\/phil\/home.asp\">http:\/\/phil.cdc.gov\/phil\/home.asp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer I had the opportunity to participate in the 2014 CDC Ambassador Training. \u00a0Twenty teachers from across the US spent a week in Atlanta, GA attending seminars held by\u00a0CDC scientists.\u00a0 Each day we would tour something \u2013 the Spencer Museum, research laboratories, the CDC Library, the CDC campus, etc.\u00a0 This was an amazing chance<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=4698\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabt-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}