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Hilary Peddicord

Education Lead for NOAA's Science On a Sphere and SOS Explorer

Hilary Peddicord

Biography

Hilary Peddicord is the Education Lead for Science On a Sphere® at the NOAA Office of Education within the CIRES Center for Education, Engagement, and Evaluation at CU Boulder. She played a key role in launching SOS Explorer®, a freely available flat screen version of Science On a Sphere that makes a portion of the extensive SOS Dataset Catalog accessible to the public. Hilary is responsible for organizing professional development and training for science teachers and informal educators, creating scientific storytelling content for SOS and SOSx platforms, and leading a global network of SOS users in sharing best practices for content and audience engagement. Recently, she has been a Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation-funded project aimed at integrating arts-based teaching methods and visualizations of real science data into educational practices to enhance students' data literacy and critical thinking skills. Hilary earned degrees in Zoology and Dance from the University of Wyoming and a certification to teach secondary science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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