EWOC's, unlike the furry little creatures in Star Wars, are real live active change-agents. They're not a new government agency, and definitely not representative of a new acronym for standardized tests.

The International Conference on School and Popular Meteorology and Oceanography, held every three years, has evolved into EWOC due to the length of the original title. People participating in these global conferences began to call themselves EWOC's. The acronym stands for the Educators of Weather, Oceans, and Climate.

This presentation will feature highlights of the EWOC Conference in Madrid, Spain in 2003. Special emphasis will be on K-12 educational initiatives in meteorology and oceanography currently being implemented in classrooms around the world.