Tracy Wicker

science teacher

Cache Public School

Sessions in which Tracy Wicker attends

Thursday 7 February, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)

7:30 AM

SEEC 101

15 minutes, 7:30 AM - 7:45 AM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater

8:00 AM

Keynotes Session- Vanessa Wyche

1 hour 30 minutes, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater

Keynote

10:00 AM

Classroom Lasers Part 1

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2

Session

Mr. David Temple, Longview High School (Participant)

Bryce Standridge, Longview High School (Participant)

Classroom Lasers Part 1 will be focused on basic information on lasers. It will show and utilize many online applets that can be useful classroom a...

12:45 PM

What's Math Got to Do With It? Making Critical Connections in the Mathematics Classroom

45 minutes, 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC

Session

Lorie McFee, North Buncombe High School (Participant)

Are you looking for authentic problems to promote understanding of 9-12 mathematical content? Explorations with data gathered from the Parker...

1:45 PM

Classroom Lasers Part 2

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2

Session

Shannon King, Longview High School (Participant)

Scott Hartt, Longview High School (Participant)

Classroom Lasers Part 2 will be using simple lasers pointers in several hands-on activities. These activities will demonstrate refraction, reflecti...

3:45 PM

Tracking Satellites, Orbits, & Modeling!

1 hour 30 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

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Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration

Session

Ms. Frances Dellutri, National Space Society (Participant)

Lynne Zielinski, National Space Society (Participant)

Be empowered and ignite excitement with your students through the lens of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tracking as it applies to physics, art...

Friday 8 February, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)

8:00 AM

Keynote- Dr. Alan Stern

1 hour, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater

Keynote

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...

9:30 AM

Modeling the Expanding Universe in the Classroom

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

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Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration

Session

Emily Neuheimer, Perimeter Institute (Outreach Teacher Network) (Participant)

The Expanding Universe - a teacher resource by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Activities explore how scientists use emission spectra ...

11:15 AM

Fluid Dynamics and the Physics of Flight

45 minutes, 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1

Session

Loren Lykins, Carlisle High School (Participant)

Charla Nicholas, Carlisle High School (Participant)

Fluid Dynamics! Good demos, great labs, and spectacular paper airplanes?This is a hands-on presentation, so get ready to have some fun. Instruction...

12:15 PM

Coding a Jr. Botball robot using C++

45 minutes, 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2

Session

Gina Kwid, Galileo STEM Academy (Participant)

Beth Bivens, Galileo STEM Academy (Participant)

Participants will learn basic coding, using C++, to code a Jr. Botball robot to complete introductory challenges. Participants will be introd...

3:15 PM

Which Rocks Made This Sand? Or What Happened to the Rocks

1 hour 30 minutes, 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

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Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery

Session

Pamela Knab, Texas Space Grant Consortium/Lake Travis STEM Academy (Participant)

Some day, our students will be looking at the sand and soil on Mars, on asteroids, and on other distant bodies in space. Having an opportunity to s...

Saturday 9 February, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)

11:45 AM

The Physics of Light Using Light Emitting Diodes

45 minutes, 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3

Session

Pam Petersen, York Middle School (Participant)

Tom Brestel, NASA Nebraska Space Grant (Participant)

Participants will be shown how to do hands on activities using light emitting diodes. Including the energy of the photon, diffraction pattern...

12:30 PM

Lunch 2 Saturday

1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery- Lunch 2