I am a 15 yr vertean of teaching and a 7 year veteran of teaching Aerospace Engineering and Aviation. I am a avid aviator with a priviate pilot rating and iam currently working on my instrumentaion rating and my ground instructor rating. I currently serve as a member of the United States Air Force Auxillary, Civil Air Patrol. My current rank is Captain in the CAP and I am a squadron commander for SWT-TX186th Spindletop Cadet Squadron, Beaumont, Texas.
I am happliy married to my loving wife Cyinta, who is a second grade teacher in Beaumont, Texas Ihave two grown step-childeren, a grand-son. I've been comming to SEEC since 2018 and this will be my fourth convention.
Sessions in which Captain Charles Kirk participates
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- What Does It Weigh?
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Lonestar
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- How can you weigh something in space? during this session, you will determine the weight of objects by collecting and graphing data by using a spri...
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Sessions in which Captain Charles Kirk 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
- International Space Station Ozo-some Mission!
- 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
- Use the Ozobot color coding and geometry concepts to dice roll your way to a new and innovative International Space Station Module! Walk away...
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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
- 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...
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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
- 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...
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11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Fluid Dynamics and the Physics of Flight
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Fluid Dynamics! Good demos, great labs, and spectacular paper airplanes?This is a hands-on presentation, so get ready to have some fun. Instruction...
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12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Lunch 2 Friday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery- Lunch 2
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Neutral Buoyancy Lab— Visitors’ Gallery (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - NBL BUS
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- To the Stars! – Leaving Complacency Behind with ISS Commander Dr. Leroy Chiao
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Complacency is an incipient black hole that can creep into organizations with little or no warning. Caught up in day-to-day operations, leaders ...
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8:45 AM
8:45 AM
- Explore the History of Manned Space Flight
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Starship Gallery Tour
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- Tour
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
- Return of the X-Planes!
- 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
- X-planes are back! Join NASA Aeronautics and a new generation of aeronautics challenges. Find out how these challenges can be utilized to teach STE...
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12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Lunch 2 Saturday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery- Lunch 2
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Remote Sensing of Mars
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What do scientists want to learn about Mars? What makes a good landing site? How does remote sensing help choose the best site? Come explore rem...
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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