Educational Forum signup list for regular members

[Tim Vasquez]

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Tim

 

[Greg Higgins]

Tim,
I would be very much interested in this endeavor!

Greg Higgins

 

[Jerry Prsha]

Almost everyone has questions.. This is a great idea!

 

[Eric Flescher]

count me in but what are the objectives of this forum?

Is it just to ask and answer questions? Any guidelines or directives needed or what can and cannot be posted?

 

[David Drummond]

It's a place where new chasers or aspiring chasers can ask any question they want and get it answered by experienced chasers, and not feel too intimidated as they might posting in the general forum, or feel like they might face some ridicule for posting a question on something very basic.

The idea is to have a mentoring type area for those experienced chasers that wish to help mentor new folks, while allowing those that don't want to be able to avoid it.

Lots of new folks have a lot of basic questions they would like answered. Stuff experienced chasers know by heart now, sometimes forget it was once new ground for us too.

My hope that this will help foster relationships between more experienced chasers with new people coming in to the hobby, much in the same way that ham radio helps "elmer" (a mentor) new hams. Hopefully this will extend in to the physical world allowing new chasers someone to learn from in the field as well.

I had the thought that this might be a good approach to introducing new people to the world of storm chasing through a teaching philosophy, rather than a preaching philosophy.

 

[Chris C Sanner]

I would definitely like access for both answering and asking I'm a 'expert' novice or a novice intermediate or somewhere in there. After 5 years I've chased quite a bit to answer the basic questions but I still have a ton of questions of my own to be asked

 

[Shane Adams]

Sign me up...I'd love to answer chasing questions.

 

[Laura Hedien]

Hoo-rah!! I'm in. Love to learn- can never know enough.
Sign me up please?
Thanks.
Laura

 

[Danny Neal]

Sign me up....I can lend a helping hand as well as contribute questions that will benefit the whole community.

 

[Verne Carlson]

Great idea Tim and mods, I mentored a middle school student this summer and her questions made me learn as well - sign me up!

 

[Dustin Wilcox]

I often run into cases when I could use some clarification on a rather simple subject, also would be willing to help folks out when they need clarification on something I fully understand. Sign me up!!

 

[Brian Emfinger]

sign me up. I can help and certainly need help sometimes as well.

 

[Bob Hartig]

This is a great idea! But do I qualify? I'm not a newbie, but neither am I an old pro. I've been chasing a while and have experienced modest success these past two years, but I still have a lot to learn about forecasting. This year I finally participated in some of the forecast and post-op discusssions, but I've felt a bit intimidated, knowing how much I still don't know. Would this forum be for me too? If so, sign me up.

 

[David Poch]

I am pretty new to chasing and would like to sign up to be able to ask questions and learn.

Thanks!
David

 

[Maggie Kahman]

I am pretty new to chasing and would like to sign up to be able to ask questions and learn.

Thanks!
David

Me too, Thank you to whoever came up with with this thread. Great Idea I also would be willing to answer questions as well. If i dont know, I will look it up and we can both benefit