Bee educational program updates

[EMTuckerLab]

• [ ] Email people/groups previously known to have educational programs focusing on bees (all)
  • [x] Create email template for contacting folks (Neil)
• [x] Create survey to email more broadly for finding more education programs (Anne)
  • [ ] Email survey to broader group/listservs (all)
• [ ] Add information to website (Erika)

[neilcobb]

The blurb I sent was the rough draft of a an email template, can you give it a 5-10 minute power edit?

Neil S. Cobb,

Biodiversity Outreach Network https://www.bon-earth.org/ Flagstaff AZ Business Office: 285 W Rome Way, Paulden, AZ86334; Operations Office: 11 W Silver Spruce Ave, Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Summer Bug Camps https://www.bon-earth.org/bugcamp

SCAN https://scan-bugs.org/portal/index.php North American Arthropod Portal

iDigBees TCN https://idigbees.org/

Mobile Office - Text & WhatsApp: 928-607-4075

Zoom Office: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81630476460 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81630476460

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6155-9444

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 11:16 AM Erika Tucker @.***> wrote:

• Email people/groups previously known to have educational programs focusing on bees (all)
  • Create email template for contacting folks (Neil)
• Create survey to email more broadly for finding more education programs (Anne)
  • Email survey to broader group/listservs (all)
• Add information to website (Erika)

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[neilcobb]

I am contacting you regarding your education outreach program. I am part of the iDigBees project https://idigbees.org/ and one of the goals of this project is to promote education and outreach regarding Bee biodiversity or pollinators. There’s two items for that I would like to inquire about and then just let you know about the iDigBees program. First, is your program (on website) still ongoing and will it continue into the future. Do you have other activities that relate to be biodiversity or pollinators that our not really publicly announced and finally I just want to let you know that we are developing data on bee biodiversity or bee biogeography and we would love to share any of the data that we develop to feed into your education outreach program. We also have our own focused education outreach program Smartbees that we would be happy to share activities and content from that program with you.

and by the way, here is a link to our open survey

[EMTuckerLab]

Template has been transferred to a google doc here

[iDigBee-Education]

Draft for Mat 1 on "What makes a bee---" Activity on back will have students identify 2 groups who look like a bee but are not in the order Hymenoptera. They will refer to the anatomy that distinguish bees from info shown on front of mat. Mat 2 will introduce and define native bees. Need Hi Res of iDigbio logo. NSF, BON logos?

[iDigBee-Education]

Current production timetable

Mat 1 edits by Aug 1 Mat 2 content development by Aug 15 Mat 2 graphic design by Aug 30

Animation Sound/Audio production complete for English Version Spanish version sound production nearly done. Character design finalized. Mayantoons working on lip synching and timeline Will require two separate tracks for English/Spanish

Website Audio/soundtrack posted on website Audio track can be used to promote the animation via social media