Teton Science Schools’ Idaho Initiative
Teton Science Schools will bring TSS Educational Programs to families of Eastern Idaho through increasing educational services and opportunities for kids, families, teachers and communities of Eastern Idaho. Effective September 1, 2012, the Teton Valley Community School located in Victor, …
“Chinese New Year” Gala & Auction!
Please join us, Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 6:00 pm at the Jackson Campus of Teton Science Schools for the Journeys School “Chinese New Year” Gala & Auction. Bring your enthusiasm, your unbridled good will and your well-stocked wallets; …
Graduates Energize a Frigid World
The surface hoar reached over one centimeter in length on this morning; the thermometer reads -25 below zero. The winter world on the Kelly Campus brings little sound and even fewer movements. All is still; …
Bhutan Blog: Did the First King of Bhutan have only one hand?
Photo (above) – Rinchen and his team (left to right – Jigme, Tulsi Prasad, Tshering, and Rinchen) explain their project investigating whether the First King of Bhutan had only one hand.
Photo (below) – …
Bhutan Blog: Paro Place-Based Education Workshop
Photo: All the workshop participants in the Paro place-based education workshop with the Paro skyline in the background.
We conducted our first of two place-based education workshops at the Hotel Holiday Home in Paro, …
Bhutan Travel Blog: Reconnecting with Friends
Our past few days have been busy with travels to Thimphu on Friday, January 11 for a meeting with the Teton Science Schools-Bhutan partnership Steering Committee and the first two days of our teacher workshop on Saturday and Sunday (January 12-13). …
Bhutan Blog: Exploring Paro-First full day in Bhutan
After a much needed night of good sleep, our exploration of Bhutan began today by seeing some of the highlights of Paro. Bhumika and Tashi continued as our guides and took us to the College of Education in Paro to look around and visit with some of the faculty. …
Bhutan Travel Blog: Arrival in Bhutan
After 6 pairs of take-offs and landings over the last 48 or so hours, we arrived in Paro, Bhutan today at about 2 pm local time. Our flight path took us from Jackson to Salt Lake City to Los Angeles to Tokyo (only enough time to walk from one flight to the next in Tokyo) to Bangkok (we spent a few hours in beds in the airport hotel in Bangkok) to Bagdogra, …
Bhutan Travel Blog
After nearly five years of bringing graduate students and delegations of teachers from Bhutan to Teton Science Schools, an official delegation from TSS and the University of Wyoming will be traveling to Bhutan in January 2013. …
Monitoring the Birds of the Tetons
It’s not every “New Englander” that is offered the opportunity to band birds in the Tetons for the summer, but so it was for me during the summer of 2012. I was finishing up my graduate work at the University of Maine and my lab mate, …