Sessions in which Larry Zurcher participates
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Noctis Landing or Bust! A Martian Coding & Engineering Challenge
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- You are headed for Noctis Landing on Mars when your lander's GPS system goes down. You land safely, but need to get your crew and gear to the colon...
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Sessions in which Larry Zurcher attends
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
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
- Houston - We're Solving Problems
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Destiny Theater
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Participants will work as teams to create an engineering build with materials commonly found in the classroom. Based on the Apollo 13 CAPCOM ...
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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
- 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...
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1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- STEAM Powered Space Challenge
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The presenters will demonstrate how to create a STEAM multi-district collaboration for staff and competitions for students which include a culminat...
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3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- Genes in Space - your DNA experiment in space!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Join Genes in Space and discover how students can design experiments that address real-world problems. Genes in Space is a free science contest tha...
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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
- One Launch, a Thousand Sparks: the Impact of Student-Developed Experiments
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Lonestar
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session provides educators with tools and confidence needed to engage an entire school community in a student-developed space experiment. Part...
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Our Solar System is BIG! Construct an outdoor model of the Solar System
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Images of the Solar System are usually misleading or wrong. Most of the typical activities that are used to show students the scale of the Solar Sy...
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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,...
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1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Mission to Mars: Using "The Martian" as a Launchpad to Hands-On Study
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Learn how to use "The Martian" to inspire learning in science through hands-on study. See what one teacher did to get her students excited about le...
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3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Space App Attack!!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Participants will engage in new and innovative technology apps for their space lessons to engage their 21st century learners. Participants wi...
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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
- Using space to engage Elementary Mathematicians
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- Students solidify math skills when they see real world applications and they are excited to do so when lessons revolve around a favorite topic like...
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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
- STEM Literacy "The Balancing Act"
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
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