Technology Work Group, which, along with the Coalition for Technology Partnerships, organized Congressional Visits Day. Kasey Shewey, GAP associate, coordinated the visits between geoscientists and their congressional representatives. The trip will model a guided field-education experience that teachers can incorporate into field trips with their students. Similar field trips are being planned for future NSTA regional and national meetings. The majority of its members teach grades 7 12.
Some members are administrators, others are post-secondary geoscience educators.
II attracted over 225 educators from 25 countries. The association has survived its birth and has grown to a mature organization. It is governed by classroom teachers elected from its membership. GeoRef Sharon Tahirkheli became acting director of AGI's GeoRef database March 1, succeeding retired director John Mulvihill. Tahirkheli takes charge of a database that contains 2.1 million bibliographic references to journals, books, maps, and other geoscience publications in 40 different languages.