{"id":61850,"date":"2021-11-02T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61850"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:03:57","slug":"kwec-program-specialist-kern-recognized-as-a-leader-in-environmental-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61850","title":{"rendered":"KWEC program specialist Kern recognized as a leader in environmental education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Fort Hays State University staff member has been recognized by the Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education (KACEE) for overcoming the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic on environmental education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandy Kern, program\nspecialist at FHSU\u2019s Kansas Wetlands Education Center (KWEC) near Great Bend,\nreceived the newly created Pivot Award from the KACEE. This one-time award\ncategory honors individuals, groups, or organizations that demonstrated\noutstanding adaptability to deliver environmental education programs despite\nthe challenges posed by the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curtis Wolf, director\nof the KWEC, said that Kern went above and beyond in the past 19 months to\nensure that her environmental education programs would continue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am happy to see\nMandy get recognized for her hard work,\u201d Wolf said. \u201cAs Mandy\u2019s supervisor, I\nabsolutely believe she deserved this award.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kern\ndeveloped new programs and changed delivery methods to virtual options,\nincluding a virtual tour of Cheyenne Bottoms. Kern also wrote a children\u2019s book\nwith supplemental program materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her virtual field trip\nof Cheyenne Bottoms allows educators to use interviews, virtual reality videos,\nand actual drone footage to teach about the Cheyenne Bottoms. It gives students\nat area schools a chance to visit virtually when they are unable to do so in\nperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also enables\nenvironmental educators outside the local area an opportunity to explore the\nwetlands, resulting in greater opportunities for people across Kansas and\nbeyond to learn about the importance of Cheyenne Bottoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kern was nominated for\nthe award by Dr. Matthew Clay, assistant professor of Teacher Education at\nFHSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am honored that I was nominated for this award by a colleague I\nrespect and enjoy collaborating with,\u201d Kern said.&nbsp;\u201cDr. Clay does a great\njob with his students, preparing them for a future in science education, and\ndid much pivoting of his own this past year.\u201d\n\nKansas Wetlands Education Center, affiliated with FHSU\u2019s Werth College of\nScience, Technology and Mathematics, is located 10 miles northeast of Great\nBend at the Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area. More information can be found at\nwetlandscenter.fhsu.edu.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS A Fort Hays State University staff member has been recognized by the Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education (KACEE) for overcoming&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61851,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61850\/revisions\/61851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}