Mary Vaughn
Mary Vaughn currently teaches 6th Grade Earth & Space Science in Tampa, Florida with over 30 years of teaching experience, Grades K-6. Mary has continued to inspire her students with off the Earth experiments to the International Space Station for the past eleven years, with the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). Ms. Vaughn is the recipient of several awards including Teacher of Excellence-ISS National Lab, PRISM Award-Promoting Regional Improvement in Science & Math, and the Ray Lien Aerospace Educator Award. Mary was in the first cohort selected for the Space Center Houston SEEC Crew, along with two fellowships sponsored by Honeywell employees to Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. Mary has received travel scholarships with Sally Ride Science to attend Educator Institutes Exploring Our Moon, Climate Changes, & GRAIL MoonKam Student Expo Teacher Presenter in Washington D.C. Mary is also a Solar System Ambassador for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has presented at many district, state & national conferences.
Sessions in which Mary Vaughn participates
Friday 28 June, 2024
Meet the amazing NASA Sew Sister Jean Wright as she discusses how her group of Aerospace Composite Technicians crafted thermal blankets to insulate the orbiters from thermal energy. Utilize that new information to engage in an engineering design challenge to create a barrier that will protect an object from thermal energy conduction. Help your student connect the academic concepts to real-life applications. ...
Sessions in which Mary Vaughn 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...
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...
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. ...
Thursday 27 June, 2024
Friday 28 June, 2024
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.