Meteorology students face plenty of career choices: should they go into broadcast, research, or operational forecasting? Each track offers a very different experience. And while students are exposed to broadcasters on television and researchers at their universities, it can be a challenge for them to experience operational forecasting.
![Topeka Weather Forecast Office meteorologists used a new team approach to teaching a University of Kansas operational forecasting class. (Image credit: Ariel Cohen/NOAA) Topeka Weather Forecast Office meteorologists used a new team approach to teaching a University of Kansas operational forecasting class.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2020/Jul/img_4698.png?itok=bzmoXn2p)
Topeka Weather Forecast Office meteorologists used a new team approach to teaching a University of Kansas operational forecasting class. (Image credit: Ariel Cohen/NOAA)