Description:

Over lunch, Symposium participants will engage in an intergenerational conversation about education, training, and mentorship. This conversation will begin with panel providing Symposium participants with the perspectives of a Panel of Indigenous students and early career scientists who have emerged from programs in colleges, universities, and research centers, including those that are institutional partners in the Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences.  This will also include students currently participating in the RVCC Hub project.  

As was the case in at the AMS 103 Annual Meeting, the Baltimore Symposium will include a panel highlighting a Rising Voices partnership with high school students engaged in the Jefferson County Schools Indigenous STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) club to help students pursue studies and careers in these fields. As many of the students have lived their entire lives in the Denver metropolitan area, they are only vaguely familiar with the political, social, and cultural workings of tribal and reservation life. Two JeffCo Indigenous STEAM Club members will describe the unique kind of mentorship urban Indian STEAM students require. This Session will provide an opportunity to acquaint these urban Indians with tribal governmental and cultural leaders whose work involves or influences the application of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics To conclude this 3rd Session,  Daniel Wildcat and Mervyn Tano will talk story about Rising Voices as a boundary organization and its role in institutionalizing traditional knowledge into the fabric of tribal operations. (40 min.)