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Workshop Planning Guide
Workshop Facilitator's Guide
10:20 am - Introduction to the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Facilitator introduces workshop
10:30 am - Panel Discussion: Pathways to the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Facilitator
- Introduce panels and start slide deck.
- Slides need to auto advance every 15s. If presentations are google slides, you’ll have to select auto advance before starting each presentation.
- Break time in half:
- Introduce first 2 panelists, do those 2 IGNITES, then do Q&A;
- Then introduce remaining 2 panelists, do their IGNITES, then do Q&A for all.
11:30 am - BREAK
- Optional: Give panelists their gifts and thank you cards before they leave
BREAK
- Tell students to mark “First Impressions Poster” during Breaks and Lunch.
11:45 am - Support Map Exercise
12:00 pm – Team finalizes mentor matching
12:15 pm – Catering – Lunch setup
12:45 pm - Lunch
Lunch, Outdoor Break and Group Photo
1:55 pm - Lunch Recap
- Afternoon panelists arrive.
- (assigned team member) greets panelists and records attendance as panelists check in
- If not obvious, be sure to ask panelists how to pronounce their name.
2:00pm - Panel Discussion: What Mentoring Means to Me
- Introduce panels and start slide deck.
- Slides need to auto advance every 15s. If presentations are google slides, you’ll have to select auto advance before starting each presentation.
- Break time in half: Intro first 2 panelists, do those 2 IGNITES, then do Q&A
- Then intro remaining 2 panelists, do their IGNITES, then do Q&A for all.
- If not obvious, be sure to ask panelists how to pronounce their name.
2:30 pm – Catering, Afternoon snack setup
3:00 pm - Growing Equitable Inclusion
Facilitator led
3:35 pm - BREAK
Afternoon break
3:40 pm - Communication and Connection Toolkit
Facilitator
4:10 pm - Concluding Remarks, Resources, Evaluation, Mentee-Mentor Connections
Facilitator; with technical support from (team member) for mentor matching.
4:30 pm –
- Workshop ends
- Team cleans up space and packs up materials.
- Make sure students take home any leftover food.
5:30 pm – Team Disbands