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Emmie Blanco

Sessions in which Emmie Blanco attends

Wednesday 26 June, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | 45 minutes
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour

Begin SPACE Conference at our Welcome Ceremony with an inspiring message from Barbara Morgan. Barbara Morgan is a NASA astronaut (retired) and educator. She trained with the Challenger crew as the backup for Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe.  Later, after teaching public school for 24 years i...

11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 12:35 PM | 1 hour 20 minutes

NASA’s Artemis Missions will return humans to the Moon to live and work as a testbed for crewed exploration farther into the solar system, beginning with Mars. The Artemis Base Camp will be a permanent outpost at Shackleton Crater located at the lunar south pole. Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways' Artemis ROADS II (Rover Observations and Discoveries in Space) framework explores NGSS aligned hands-o...

12:45 PM
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | 1 hour

Astronaut Fred Haise is an American legend. He will join us virtually during the lunch hour on day one of SPACE 2024. What an amazing treat for our educators! He will tell his story of Apollo 13 and answer questions live with our conference participants via Zoom. 

2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM | 1 hour 20 minutes

Participate in hands-on activities led by NASA education specialists and receive a hands-on introduction to several of Next Gen STEM’s newly developed products including camp and formal activity guides. Guides covered: Artemis Camp Experience, First Woman Camp Guides, Earth Observation Camp Experience, Aeronautics guides, Lunar Surface Exploration educator’s guide, Exploration Experience Guides. ...

3:40 PM
3:40 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 20 minutes

Through our presentation, we will share about Real World Explorations and what Oceans to Orbits has to offer both to educators and student while giving them hands on experiences and a first-hand look at the "orbits" exploration in our Ocean's to Orbits campaign. This campaign is closely aligned to NGSS Standards to benefit both educators and students. Through this course, we will focus on interpreting data, ...

Thursday 27 June, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 2 hours
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Friday 28 June, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM | 1 hour 20 minutes

This is a free, fieldtrip workshop at KSC for middle schoolers to learn block coding based on VIPER mission planned to go to the Moon in 2024. Students become Artemis engineers programing robots in small teams to search craters on the south pole of the Moon on giant maps. Teams that complete this mission, then run a robot with their code in lunar soil simulant, safely outside the hostile fine-dust of the lun...

12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes

Pick up lunch at The Center for Space Education and enjoy time at the KSC Visitor Complex. Picnic tables and indoor dining locations are available for seating. The Center for Space Education will be closed from 12:00-1:15 p.m.