CCEP program goals are to increase: 1) the number of high school students using NASA observation and earth systems science models to investigate and analyze global climate change issues; 2) the number of students prepared to enter graduate school and/or employment in related technical fields; and 3) access to high quality climate change education among student from groups historically underrepresented in science. CCEP will enhance an existing website program, Project BudBurst, to achieve these goals in a formal education context.

Project BudBurst is a phenology-based national citizen science program, which has successfully connected school-based educational programming and scientific research programs. CBG will develop a technology-rich, middle and high school curriculum—using Project BudBurst, NASA's Earth Observation Data, and National Geographic's Fieldscope—to engage students in citizen science and provide a global context for active data analysis. CBG will train an estimated 60 middle and high school teachers, primarily from Chicago Public Schools, in three, two-day workshops in the curriculum.