Anujah Balachanthiran
Astronomy Honors Instructor
Naples High School
Sessions in which Anujah Balachanthiran attends
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Early Bird Check in Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Main Plaza
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 3 hours
- Session
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
- SEEC 101
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 7:30 AM - 7:45 AM | 15 minutes
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
- LIDAR Mapping with Lasers
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Destiny
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Learn about the history of LIDAR laser and its current uses. Understand how LIDAR laser measuring ...
- Session
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Solar system Mystery
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Participants will create a model of two unknown solar system objects, followed by applying math calculations to calculate scale models distances an...
- Session
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- What's Math Got to Do With It? Making Critical Connections in the Mathematics Classroom
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Are you looking for authentic problems to promote understanding of 9-12 mathematical content? Explorations with data gathered from the Parker...
- Session
- 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
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Modeling the Expanding Universe
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Big Bang, the age of the universe, and the expanding and accelerating universe: this session will demonstrate a number of hands-on classroom ac...
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- Classroom Lasers Part 2
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Classroom Lasers Part 2 will be using simple lasers pointers in several hands-on activities. These activities will demonstrate refraction, reflecti...
- Session
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- The Eagle has Landed: A Hands-on Approach to Lunar Landings
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- As the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 nears, students will be immersed in the engineering, fascination, and the wonder of the moon. Starting off wit...
- 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
- Modeling the Expanding Universe in the Classroom
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Expanding Universe - a teacher resource by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Activities explore how scientists use emission spectra ...
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- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Time Perception in Microgravity is a current ISS mission being conducted by neuroscience researcher Gilles Clément, Ph.D. Take your students on a j...
- Session
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Let's Go Into Orbit
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Wondering how a satellite orbits the Earth? Learn the basics of orbital mechanics and design an orbit for a satellite using the free software- Syst...
- Session
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Build Your Planetarium
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Destiny
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Don't want to spend $6,000 on a planetarium? Fan filled planetarium won't inflate in the wind? On a budget? Come learn how to build a portable plan...
- Session
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- SEEC Banquet
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Main Plaza
- 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 4 hours
8:45 AM
8:45 AM
- Launching Student Dream: Ballooning to the Edge
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- A fun filled Physics investigation of near real time data acquisition showcasing the efforts of LCATS students to develop, build and collect the da...
- Session
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Expert/Educator: Spaceflight Operations Training
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Join Clay Anderson, NASA Astronaut, retired and Space Center Houston Education Manager, Phyllis Friello for Spaceflight Operations Training....
- Session
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- The Physics of Light Using Light Emitting Diodes
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Participants will be shown how to do hands on activities using light emitting diodes. Including the energy of the photon, diffraction pattern...
- Session
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Spark Interest in STEM: Creating a Personal Mission Patch
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- What makes your students light up? Learn how to get students more engaged in STEM by helping them identify their own "spark" or passion. Student sp...
- Session
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Living and Working on the ISS
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Living and Working together on the ISS, encompasses the skills necessary for crews with varied backgrounds and nationalities to work together to ac...
- 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