Convention Activities are at capacity; please note your preferences to be placed on the Waiting List.
Participate in an Educator Symposium featuring several short sessions led by teams of industry professionals and educators (9:00 am to 3:45 pm). Limit: 60 participants. Sessions include:
Careers: A Path for Students to a Geosciences Paycheck - (Cancelled)
What are the technology, communication, science, and engineering skills and educational background that can lead to a job – directly or indirectly - in the geosciences and petroleum industry for your students? What other skills, such as critical thinking, spatial reasoning, peer interaction, perseverance, and curiosity will help students pursue and advance in their career? How can students with different educational experiences participate? Explore possibilities and ask questions of individuals from a broad array of backgrounds involved in geosciences.
Format: Panel discussion.
Intended audience: All.
Roving Robots and Extreme Machines, New Frontiers of Earth Exploration
Learn how unmanned vehicles – from aerial drones to underwater robots – are aiding exploration of our Earth and revealing geoscience secrets.
Format: Presentation, discussion and hands-on activities.
Intended audience: Middle-school educators.
Seeking Oil and Gas in 2017 and Beyond
In the next two decades, where will we find oil and what technology will we use to access it? How is the industry increasing its efficiency in locating and extracting resources while also reducing its environmental impact?
Format: Presentation, discussion and hands-on activities.
Intended audience: High-school educators.
Why Seismic Matters in Our Hunt for Resources
Learn how seismic exploration helps identify oil, natural gas, and minerals below the Earth’s surface.
Format: Presentation, discussion and hands-on activities.
Intended audience: Middle- to high-school educators.
A Changing World for Petroleum
What is the role of petroleum in a diversified energy economy? How is the petroleum industry responding to political, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges?
Format: Presentation and discussion.
Intended audience: All.
Participants attending the Symposium Sessions will explore: the nature and process of science; careers that involve the exploration, extraction, production, use, and disposal of Earth's resources; how the use of energy resources affects Earth's subsystems; the formation of fossil fuels; renewable and nonrenewable resources; and the economics of resources from discovery to disposal, including technological advances, resource type, concentration and location, waste disposal and recycling, and environmental costs.
Take a Walking Tour of the Geology and Architecture of Houston’s Downtown Buildings (4:00 to 6:00 pm)
Bring your sneakers! Geology is prominently displayed and described on this walking tour with geoscience professionals that explores the natural building materials – as well as the architectural elements – of the buildings of Downtown Houston.
Limit: 60 participants.
Attend the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition Opening Reception (5:30-8:30 pm)
Explore exhibit hall booths and see the latest in petroleum industry information and technology. Interact with representatives from industry, organizations, and universities. Preference for complimentary opening reception registration will be given to teachers attending the Symposium.
Limit: 60 participants.