Amber DeWinter
She/Her
District STEM Coordinator
Cache High School
Sessions in which Amber DeWinter attends
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Keynotes Session- Vanessa Wyche
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Expert/Educator: Exploring the Universe: What is out there?
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What are ways scientists search for distant planets? What is gravitational lensing? Through a webinar with Dr. Ian Dell-Antonio, Professor of Physi...
- Session
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Lunch 1 Thursday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery - Lunch 1
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2 – Engaging Students Through Space Exploration Solutions
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Saturn Club
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- NASA Centennial Challenges directly engage the public in the process of advanced technology development. The program offers incentive prizes to gen...
- Session
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Keynote- Dr. Alan Stern
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | 1 hour
- Dr. Stern is a planetary scientist, author and the principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. He will p...
- Keynote
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Digital Age Teaching & Learning: Challenge-based Learning
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Participants use an engineering design process to create NASA Spotlite videos. They take on the roles of Subject Matter Experts, science communicat...
- Session
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Lunch 1 Friday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery - Lunch 1
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- Martian Water
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Within their journey to Mars, participants will work alongside the Curiosity Rover to decipher which mystery liquid is water. Scientific knowledge,...
- Session
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disk Certification- Double session
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 1:15 PM - 4:15 PM | 3 hours
- Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disks are real geologic samples in a Lucite disk. The Lunar Sample Disk has samples returned from Apollo astronaut...
8:45 AM
8:45 AM
- Alaskan Astronauts - An Earth analog above the Arctic Circle
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- Space, a hostile environment. Isolated and confined, increased radiation levels and far from help. These are the conditions faced by our astronauts...
- Session
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Making Waves: Using Ham Radio to teach electromagnetic waves and to talk around the world
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Amateur Radio is a fun way to teach the electromagnetic spectrum. There is NO age limit ? ten year olds have earned their license and can talk to t...
- Session
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Lunch 1 Saturday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery - Lunch 1
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Exoplanet Art
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Learn about the Kepler Space Telescope and other telescopes that discover exoplanets. Apply understanding of current planets to create fictional pl...
- Session
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Creating and Implementing Large-Scale Student/Family Engagement Activities
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Through this hands-on STEM-based session, learn six how teachers from a variety of backgrounds (including high school English, career tech, element...
- Session
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Featured Keynote- Gene Kranz
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | 1 hour
- An iconic NASA flight director, Gene is best known for his leadership in bringing Apollo 13 safely back to Earth and guiding Apollo 11 into hist...
- Keynote