Do you want to know what happened on Antarctica Day 2013? Here's a list of activities worldwide!
Name of Event | Date/Time | Location/Information/Contact |
Antarctica Book Making – From the Classroom to around the world – APECS Brazil & Network of 20 schools | Nov. thru 6th Dec. | Throughout BRAZIL: Get in touch to send materials, ideas, suggestions and subscribe to their schools, classes, students, teachers: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Antarctica Day Join us to celebrate with a variety of hands-on drop-in activities. |
Sat. 30th Nov. 10:00-16:00 | The Polar Museum Scott Polar Research Institute Cambridge, UK http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/events/ |
AntarcticaDay Tweet-Week tweeting messages and pictures using #AntarcticaDay |
1-6 Dec |
Polar Educators International http://www.polareducator.org/activities/polar-week This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
PolarConnect Online Webinar Live from McMurdo: Tectonic History of the Transatlantic Mountains |
Monday 2 Dec. 11am PST, 2pm EST |
PolarTREC register at http://www.polartrec.com/polar-connect/register |
2nd Annual Explorer's Club Polar Film Festival Celebrating Antarctica Day |
23rd Nov. 9 AM-9 PM |
Explorer's Club 46 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 explorers.org |
Antarctica Day flag activity Schools and communities Pudong New Area Lujiazui to attend |
25th Nov – 6th Dec | Pudong New Area Lujiazui Library, Shanghai, CHINA 倪颖 [mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.] |
Introducing Polar Science to a group of 13-year old students |
25th Nov -6th Dec | Institut Gorgs. Cerdanyola del Vallès Barcelona, SPAIN Núria Prat i Fornells [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.] |
APECS Education & Outreach http://www.apecs.is/outreach/antarctica-day/antarctica-day-2013 | 18 Nov. - 7 Dec. |
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists APECS International Directorate University of Tromsø, Norway, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Educação PROPOLAR is coordinating Portuguese participation in Antarctica Day 2013 |
25th Nov – 6th Dec | PORTUGAL Patricia Azinhaga This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Exposicion Artistica Centre Antártica | 12 - 25 Nov |
Centro Anártica Sala Terra Australis CHILE This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
APECS – Portugal website launch |
1 st Dec | PORTUGAL José Seco This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Bulgarian Antarctic Institute APECS-Bulgaria coordinating Antarctica Day school activities |
25th Nov -6th Dec | BULGARIA Iglika Trifonova This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Antarctica Day Activities for French schools APECS-France |
25th Nov -6th Dec. | FRANCE Anne-Mathilde Thierry This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Writing Contest for kids (age 11 - 12) and Science Event 18 pictures from Antarctica will serve as inspiration and the 20 best stories (10 in Dutch, 10 in French) will be printed in a book |
1 Dec. | APECS Belgium Ines Tavernier This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Antarctica Day Celebration Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station Flags & Skype with Glasgow Science Centre |
1st Dec. | International Polar Foundation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. & This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Gifu Shotoku Gakuen junior high school in Japan will join Antarctica Day activities | 25th Nov -29th Nov | Flags from JAPAN to the Southern Ocean cruise in this year & photos with ice berg This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Lower school of 250 students will make flags with captions and themed books Incl. Antarctic Treaty | 25th Nov -6th Dec. | New Canaan Country School in New Canaan, CT USA Chantal Detlefs This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Antarctica Day Student Flag Display from McMurdo, Antarctica; classroom presentations & flags! |
25th Nov -6th Dec. | Maclary School Newark, Delaware, USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Photographing Student Antarctica Day Flags in Antarctica with Lindblad National Geographic Explorer |
12th Nov- 23rd Nov | ANTARCTICA Peninsula region This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Launching Antarctica Day online booklets and using Padlet for the year 7's to share idea | 19 Nov. | Alton Convent School, Alton Hampshire, UK http://www.altonconvent.org.uk |
Celebrating Antarctica Day with 70 7th grade science students considering the Treaty, flags & acts | 25 Nov - 6 Dec. | Gateway Middle School, San Francisco, CA, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Antarctica Day video & Tweet-week Students creating animal outlines on school playgrounds - a perfect representation of a shared international space | Dec 1 - Dec. 6 | Whitehall Schools, Whitehall, Michigan, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Sharing the Antarctic Experience PolarTREC teacher will share and inspire his students, Antarctic Treaty | 25 Nov - 6 Dec. | Samuel E. Talbert Middle School, Fountain Valley School Dist, Huntington Beach, CA, John Wood This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Antarctica Day Bird Count In collaboration with IAATO and Cornell University eBird |
1st December | Bird counts on 1st Dec with a focus on ships travelling near Antarctica This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Mermaid Lagoon Ocean Benefit 'Saving Neverland' |
Friday 8th Nov. 9 PM | The Red Lotus Room, 893 Bergen St, Brooklyn, New York 11238 Debra Tillinger [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.] |
Free Antarctic Photo Library (UNEP GRID-Arendal) |
Ongoing | United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Grid Arendal, Norway |
Penguins Marching Into Your Classroom Daily Nest Check and Photos |
Austral Summer 2013 |
ANTARCTICA Cape Royds, Ms. Jean Pennycook This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Gateway Antarctica Univ. students in a 3 month course will take student flags to Antarctic | 1 Dec & January 2014 | Centre for Antarctic Studies and Research Universtiy of Canterbury, New Zealand This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Acts for Antarctica learn about the polar regions and undertake acts to help in their preservation | Thru March 2014 | Students on Ice Alumni http://www.studentsonice.com/ actforantarctica.gmail.com |
1) Commemoration of the Signing of theAntarctic Treaty (December, 1st 1959). 2) Signing of Agreement for Antarctic Seal betweenUniversity of Magallanes and Liceo Experimental UMAG (12/2/13, Auditorium E. Livacic) 3) Exhibition of Polar Explorer World Record"1,300 kilometers in Kayak on Antarctic Seas"(Mr. Cristian Donoso) (12/2/13, Auditorium E. Livacic). |
Dec 1 - Dec 2 |
GAIA ANTARCTICA Programme; Punta Areans, Chile Organized by GAIA-Antártica Programme (www.umag.cl/gaiaantartica) |
Lectures about geography, ecology of Antarctica and about the researches that the PNRA do in the Italian base mainly at Mario Zucchelli Station. - Teacher had joined the XXVIII Expedition to Mario Zucchelli Station inside a project of the PNRA and Ministry of Instruction in the November of the 2012. | November 2013 |
IIS JC. Maxwell high school, Luca Miserere, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.jcmaxwell.it/max/index.php |