4TH AMS SYMPOSIUM ON EDUCATION

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) held its Fourth Symposium on Education in conjunction with the 75th Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texa s. The theme of the symposium was ''Opening the Doors to the Future: E ducation in the Classroom and Beyond.'' Thirty-eight oral presentation s and 53 poster presentations summarized a variety of educational prog rams or examined issues of importance for both the precollege and univ ersity levels. There were also two joint sessions with other meetings. The K-12 education session was held as part of the 24th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology, in recognition of the contributions made by me dia meteorologists. The second joint session was with the 11th Interna tional Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems fo r Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology on new technologies for the classroom. Over 200 people representing a wide spectrum of the Societ y attended one or more of the sessions in this two-day conference, whe re they increased their awareness of educational initiatives of member s and institutions associated with the AMS.