Check out the new NASA Edge video about NASA’s and Cal Poly’s CubeSat program; 24 minutes. An excellent video. Excellent depth and great interviews. And the space shuttle GAS can student experiments are mentioned, which generated creation of our Endeavour Institute.
Video (YouTube).
Students from 8 Bright Futures Schools in the Lucia Mar Unified School District will be participating in the 2nd annual Lego Showcase. The event will take place on Saturday March 16th from 9:30am – 11:30am using LEGO creativity! Grover Heights Elementary will be hosting the LEGO Education Showcase Event at 770 North 8th Street, Grover Beach.
The Showcase Event is a customize-able building activity that sparks creativity in participants by allowing them to use their imaginations to create LEGO models around a theme. The theme for this year’s event is for teams to build an outer space metropolis or a procession of trains. The teams will be assisted by the Cal Poly Society of Civil Engineers and the Arroyo Grande High School Robotics Team.
NASA unveiled an Exploration Design Challenge on Monday to give students from kindergarten through 12th grade the opportunity to play a unique role in the future of human spaceflight. The innovative educational opportunity was announced in a special event at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The challenge asks students in the U.S. and abroad to think and act like scientists to overcome one of the major hurdles for deep space long-duration exploration — protecting astronauts and hardware from the dangers of space radiation.
Click here for the full press release including links to the challenge itself.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist: one who speaks as easily and brilliantly with the public as with professional scientists. His popular books (including New York Times best-seller, cialis Death by Black Hole), cialis NOVA specials and StarTalk radio show have won him a fervent fan base among science novices and die-hards alike. Renowned for his fresh voice, rx trademark humor and canny insights, he is director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Tyson will appear in the hotly anticipated sequel to Carl Sagan’s landmark TV series, COSMOS, on FOX in 2013.
For details and tickets, click here.
Phillips 66 and the National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project have partnered for the second year to provide K-12 teachers in 19 cities with curriculum and training opportunities. We believe it is important to provide energy professional development opportunities for classroom teachers and to provide engaging and exciting energy curriculum for students in today’s classrooms. Please register by March 11. Free: breakfast, case lunch, and substitute reimbursement are included.
March 19, 2013
Radisson Santa Maria
8:00am to 3:30pm
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