WRC - Weather Research Center

WEATHER NAVIGATOR®

SCIENCE EDUCATION ON THE GO!

Science Education on the Go! is an Outreach Project of Weather Research Center (WRC). WRC Meteorologists go to local schools, community centers and events to make presentations on the weather and conduct experiments. Since 1987, WRC has served over 306,000 people. WRC meteorologists have given weather classes to Houston area schools, community centers, scout troops and senior centers.

WRC wants to (1) expand this outreach and (2) further increase the outreach using Weather Navigator^® to take Science Education on the Go! Nationally, and focusing on:

1. Interest children in science and math through something they experience every day – the weather.
2. Educate the Community in Weather Safety to save lives and protect property.

Science Education on the Go! will excite the community about math and science through the weather, furthering an understanding of the weather and weather safety.

WRC Weather Pods. These SUV Pods will take Science Education on the Go! to Houston and the surrounding areas. They will be equipped with weather experiments and equipment designed to create interactive learning opportunities. "Weather Modules" will be developed that can be checked-out by teachers, scout leaders and home schoolteachers for in-depth weather lessons. All modules are designed to inspire interest in math and science, by showing that math and science play a role in their everyday lives.

WRC Weather Navigator^® with its own 3 accompanying Weather Pods. Weather Navigator is a mobile Weather Museum, housed in a 53’ double pullout trailer. Weather Navigator will be on the road nationwide, 50 weeks a year, for a minimum of 3 years. It is being developed in collaboration with TREEHOUSE Events, a nationally known mobile and museum exhibit design and construction firm. Corporate sponsorships will fund this Project.

The WRC Weather Museum.

The major funding for this Houston, Texas museum will come from the sponsorships of the Weather Navigator. The Weather Museum will be an interactive museum with exhibits allowing visitors to experience various aspects of the weather, acquire weather and weather safety information, view historical weather instruments and have access to a vast library of data, books and, professional journals and scientific papers. The Museum will be the home base for the Weather Navigator and all of the Weather Pods.

Weather Research Center
5104 Caroline St., Houston, Texas 77004
Phone: 713-529-3076
Fax: 713-528-3538
email: wrc@wxresearch.org