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Larry Zurcher

Lake Oswego School District K-12 STEM TOSA
Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Larry Zurcher participates

Saturday 9 February, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Noctis Landing or Bust! A Martian Coding & Engineering Challenge
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Signup required

Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4

Session

Larry Zurcher (Participant)

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...

Sessions in which Larry Zurcher attends

Thursday 7 February, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
SEEC 101
15 minutes, 7:30 AM - 7:45 AM
Signup required

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

8:00 AM
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
10:00 AM
Houston - We're Solving Problems
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Signup required

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

Session

Laura Dunn, School District Hillsborough County (Participant)

Mary Vaughn, School District of Hillsborough County (Participant)

Participants will work as teams to create an engineering build with materials commonly found in the classroom.  Based on the Apollo 13 CAPCOM ...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Lunch 1 Thursday
1 hour, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Signup required

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

12:45 PM
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
Signup required

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
1:45 PM
STEAM Powered Space Challenge
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Signup required

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

Session

sarah freundlich, Lexington Local School District (Participant)

Lisa Dulin, Crestview Local Schools (Participant)

Terrie Chase, New London Local Schools (Participant)

The presenters will demonstrate how to create a STEAM multi-district collaboration for staff and competitions for students which include a culminat...
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
Genes in Space - your DNA experiment in space!
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Signup required

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

Session

Dr Emily Gleason, Genes in Space (Participant)

Robert Dennison, Genes in Space (Participant)

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...

Friday 8 February, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
Keynote- Dr. Alan Stern
1 hour, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Signup required

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
9:30 AM
One Launch, a Thousand Sparks: the Impact of Student-Developed Experiments
1 hour 30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Signup required

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

Karen Kingrea, NCSEA (Participant)

Lauren Milord, DreamUp (Participant)

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
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...
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
Martian Water
45 minutes, 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Signup required

Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4

Session

Emily Schaefer, North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (Participant)

Dr. Cassandra Runyon, College of Charleston (Participant)

Caitlin Nolby, University of North Dakota - NASA ND Space Grant Consortium (Participant)

Within their journey to Mars, participants will work alongside the Curiosity Rover to decipher which mystery liquid is water. Scientific knowledge,...
1:15 PM
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
Signup required

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
3:15 PM
Space App Attack!!
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Signup required

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

Session

Dr. Molly Nipper, Spring Branch ISD- Bendwood School (Participant)

Polly Osei, SpringBranch ISD (Participant)

Participants will engage in new and innovative technology apps for their space lessons to engage their 21st century learners.  Participants wi...
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
SEEC Banquet
4 hours, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Signup required

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
8:45 AM
Using space to engage Elementary Mathematicians
45 minutes, 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM
Signup required

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

Session

Mrs. Lori Schoenwiesner, Hanover County Public (Participant)

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...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Lunch 1 Saturday
1 hour, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Signup required

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

12:45 PM
12:45 PM
STEM Literacy "The Balancing Act"
45 minutes, 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Signup required

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

Session

Dr. Lakeisha Hamilton, Abundance Educational Consulting, LLC (Participant)

Samantha Thorstensen, CASIS-Space Station Explorers (Participant)