Coming soon: MyCOE / SERVIR Fellow-Mentor Program for GIS in Sustainable Landscapes and Watershed Research in Southeast Asia
Eligible countries: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma

MyCOE / SERVIR Fellow-Mentor Program for GIS in Climate Change in Mountain Area Research in the Himalayas
12 fellow-mentor teams from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Pakistan are currenly participating in the 10-month MyCOE / SERVIR Fellowship Program, where they are conducting research projects on themes related to Climate Change in Mountain Area Regions. The Himalayas round is the second round of the MyCOE / SERVIR Fellowship Program. For more information about these teams and about the research being conducted through this program, please visit this page or view the program wiki.  

MyCOE Global Connections and Exchange Program
The MyCOE GCE program connected high school students in the U.S. with their peers abroad in Bolivia, Ghana, Nicaragua and the Philippines through virtual online meetings. These meetings were arranged through online video conferences, online phone calls and chat rooms. Students also developed youth-led sustainable development projects around themes of climate change, food security, green economy, hazards and vulnerability and youth leadership, and presented these projects during the MyCOE Digital Video Conference, held during the 2013 AAG Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California.

Supporting Basic Math and Science Education in Muslim Southeast Asia

MyCOE is promoting the use of Geography, GIS and GPS to improve environmental education in South Asia, developing and disseminating tailored new materials and ready-to-use lesson plans for teachers at middle and high school levels to incorporate field experiences in their classrooms. Materials and tutorials are based upon freely available data, lessons, and software, including ESRI's AEJEE, so teachers everywhere in the region can access the technologies at no cost.

The program also provided travel support to attend a workshop in Davao, May 2008, and GPS equipment to 35 teacher participants competitively selected from more than 200 applicants in the Muslim Region of Mindanao, Philippines. The workshop welcomed participants with a greeting from US Amassador to the Philippines, Kristie Kenney, an avid supporter of environmental research and education in the country.

Access FREE Instructional Materials

Capacity building and materials broach topics that include natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and flooding; ecoregions; environmental pollution; collection of local field data; watershed management; climate change; health and others. The workshop was hosted at the Philippine Science High School's Southern Mindanao Campus in the Tugbok District of Mintal, May 19-23, 2008. The workshop materials are now available online for teachers to use freely.

View photos from the event

Project Information:
Coordination: Dr. Patricia Solís, AAG, psolis@aag.org
Instructors: Dr. Susan Gallagher, AAG; Barbaree Ash-Duke, Curriculum Integration and GIS in Education; and Dr. Lisa Keys-Matthews, University of North Alabama
Educational Team: Dr. Matt Koeppe, AAG, Dr. Joseph Kerski, ESRI
Support: Dr. Frances Colon, US Department of State
In the Philippines: Caron De Mars, Environment Science and Technology Office of the US Embassy in Manila; Julita Bairan, US Embassy; Corazon Monica Sabio, The GLOBE Program, Philippines; and Rochelle Papasin, Philippine Science High School.

MyCOE Pagadian Teacher Professional Development Workshop in the Philippines
The MyCOE Pagadian Teacher Professional Development Workshop was spearheaded by the Biosphereans' Science Club of Zamboanga del Sur National High School-San Pedro Annex, Pagadian City, Philippines. Based on the MyCOE model, the workshop gave high school mathematics and science teachers the opportunity to learn about geographic technologies for basic math and science using hands-on learning strategies. The event, held February 28, 2009, trained 60 teachers.  For more information, please visit the Workshop website.

MyCOE Southeast Asia Teachers are part of the My Community, Our Earth: Global Connections and Exchange Program, sharing and collaboratively learning with other classrooms in the US, Latin America and Africa.  Learn more.

See also MyCOE Youth-Led Projects from the Asian region in our project gallery of individual and group projects using geography and geographic learning for sustainable development.