Mr. Chris Miller

Planetarium Coordinator

Pogue Planetarium, Grand Prairie ISD

Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Mr. Chris Miller participates

Friday 8 February, 2019

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

11:15 AM

Our Solar System is BIG! Construct an outdoor model of the Solar System

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

Signup required

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

Session

Mr. Chris Miller, Pogue Planetarium, Grand Prairie ISD (Participant)

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...

Sessions in which Mr. Chris Miller attends

Wednesday 6 February, 2019

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

2:00 PM

Early Bird Check in

3 hours, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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

Session

Thursday 7 February, 2019

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

8:00 AM

Keynotes Session- Vanessa Wyche

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

Signup required

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

Keynote

10:00 AM

Return to the Moon

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

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

Session

Rebecca Moreland, Highland Middle School (Participant)

Joyce Hill, Texas Space Grant Consortium (Participant)

Margaret Baguio, NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium (Participant)

Current plans have astronauts exploring the surface of the moon! How do the Earth and Moon compare? How did the Moon form? What causes phases...

11:45 AM

Expert/Educator: A simple experiment can prove me wrong

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

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

Session

Tim Hall, Johnson Space Center (Participant)

Kate Newmyer, CCISD (Participant)

Can scientific knowledge change? Or is it just our approach to science that changes? When students begin to learn about STEM subjects in school,...

12:30 PM

Lunch 2 Thursday

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

1:45 PM

Plan An Orbital Space Station: A Semester-long STEM Project

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

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

Session

Natasha Wilkerson, WEX Foundation (Participant)

Can you keep a team of astronauts alive and happy during a space mission? Learn how to guide students through a semester-long classroom or aftersch...

3:45 PM

How To Talk To An Astronaut 250 miles Above Us

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

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

Session

Joanne Michael, Wiseburn Unified School District (Participant)

Kathy Lamont, Prince William County Public Schools (Participant)

Want to talk to an astronaut while they are in space? Learn from us how it's possible, through a FREE program called ARISS (Amateur Radio on the In...

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...

12:00 PM

Lunch 2 Friday

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Signup required

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

1:15 PM

Mission to Mars: Using "The Martian" as a Launchpad to Hands-On Study

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

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

Session

Elisabeth (Betty Jo) Moore, Wiley Magnet Middle School (Participant)

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...

3:15 PM

Expert/Educator: Are we there yet?

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

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

Session

Jeff Bertsch, Johnson Space Center (Participant)

Jennifer Duffer, Montgomery ISD (Participant)

If you're cruising around Deep Space like Starman in his Tesla how do you know where you are? Find out how NASA experts are developing techni...

7:00 PM

SEEC Banquet

4 hours, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

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

Saturday 9 February, 2019

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

8:45 AM

Seeing in the Dark: Preserving Dark Skies

45 minutes, 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM

Signup required

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

Session

Rachel Fuechsl, UT McDonald Observatory (Participant)

Dr. Keely Finkelstein, The University of Texas at Austin (Participant)

The dark night sky is a dwindling natural resource most people don't ever think much about. This session will explore the value of darkness a...

10:00 AM

A Mission to Mars: Inspiring STEM Through Stories

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) - Boardroom

Session

Claire Meschkat Meschkat, Vivify STEM (Participant)

Make STEM more accessible and engaging by integrating a storyline through a series of space-themed STEM challenges. Your students will transform in...

11:30 AM

Lunch 1 Saturday

1 hour, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery - Lunch 1