Olin Rhoads
Sessions in which Olin Rhoads attends
Wednesday 26 June, 2024
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...
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.
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. ...
Tired of the same old plant growth lessons? Help spark student interest in agriculture using Space as the hook. When humans go to settle the Moon and Mars, they will have to eat. While some food may be flown in, we will have to learn to cultivate food on other worlds. Help students look at growing crops a whole new way as they use the experimental design process to plan and carry out investigations to cultiv...
Thursday 27 June, 2024
Friday 28 June, 2024
Join us for Mars Day: Colonizing the Red Planet, to discover how to take the work NASA is doing and deliver it right to your students in the form of engineering challenges. During this workshop, you will get ideas for how to implement full scale projects that allow students to work as NASA rocket scientists and engineers. You will also leave with a list of ideas for continued professional developmen...
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.