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Shelley Potts

Teacher - M.S. Science & Stem, StellarXplorers Coach, CAP Aerospace Ed. Officer
South Belton Middle School, BISD
Participates in 1 Session

Shelley Potts is a self-proclaimed NASA Nerd and has even been called the Mary Poppins of Space. (She is always pulling space stuff out of her bags!)

Shelley is currently an Aerospace Education Officer for Civil Air Patrol and a middle school Science and STEM teacher at South Belton Middle School. She has had a team competing in StellarXplorers and a middle school space club.

 

Shelley attended Honeywell Educators at Space Academy in 2017, Advanced Space Academy in 2018, and has taught at a NASA Explorer School.  She has taught at both SEEC and SPACE conferences.  She attended Texas Space Grant Consortium's Lift-Off and Air Camp in 2019.

 

 

Current projects include Tomatosphere and serving as a Space Station Ambassador.

 

Sessions in which Shelley Potts participates

Friday 8 February, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
Let's Go Into Orbit
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Signup required

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

Session

Bill Yucuis, AFA StellarXplorers (Participant)

Shelley Potts, South Belton Middle School, BISD (Participant)

Wondering how a satellite orbits the Earth? Learn the basics of orbital mechanics and design an orbit for a satellite using the free software- Syst...

Sessions in which Shelley Potts attends

Wednesday 6 February, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
2:00 PM
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
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
Expert/Educator: Abort! Propelling Astronauts to Safety
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Signup required

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

Session

John Olansen, Johnson Space Center (Participant)

Patricia Moore, NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (Participant)

NASA's Orion Spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket will carry humans back the Moon and on to Mars. Meet an Ascent Abort Test Director and l...
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
Astronaut Dive Training (Dive Session) Double session
3 hours, 12:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Signup required

Tours Off-Site locations (take bus) - Dive Session (Williams Pool Bus)

Session

3:45 PM
3:45 PM
How To Talk To An Astronaut 250 miles Above Us
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Signup required

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...
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Starlight Social
3 hours, 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Available

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

Elevate your evening and network with young professionals during Space Center Houston’s Starlight Social 5:30-8:30 p.m. Feb 7. Mingle with other pr...

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...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Lunch 1 Friday
1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Signup required

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

12:15 PM
12:15 PM
Grappling with a Robotic Arm
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 1

Session

Tom Brestel, NASA Nebraska Space Grant (Participant)

Pam Petersen, York Middle School (Participant)

During this session, you will learn the importance of a robotic arm on the International Space Station.  You will then build and participate i...
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
To the Stars! – Leaving Complacency Behind with ISS Commander Dr. Leroy Chiao
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Signup required

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

Session

Jami Sunkel, OneOrbit (Participant)

Leroy Chiao, OneOrbit (Participant)

Complacency is an incipient black hole that can creep into organizations with little or no warning. Caught up in day-to-day operations, leaders ...
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
Launching Student Dream: Ballooning to the Edge
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- Lab 1

Session

Joules Webb, LUNAR CAVE ANALOG TEST SITES PROGRAM (Participant)

Ronald Wells, UTSA- College of Engineering (Participant)

A fun filled Physics investigation of near real time data acquisition showcasing the efforts of LCATS students to develop, build and collect the da...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Expert/Educator: Spaceflight Operations Training
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Signup required

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

Session

Phyllis Friello, Space Center Houston (Participant)

Clay Anderson, Former NASA Astronaut (Participant)

Join Clay Anderson, NASA Astronaut, retired and Space Center Houston Education Manager, Phyllis Friello for Spaceflight Operations Training....
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
Ready for Lift-off!
45 minutes, 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Signup required

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

Session

Laura Dunn, School District Hillsborough County (Participant)

Mary Vaughn, School District of Hillsborough County (Participant)

How does the amount of force applied or the angle of launch affect the flight of a handmade paper rocket?  Explore these questions and more as...
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
Lunch 2 Saturday
1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Signup required

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

1:45 PM
1:45 PM
Expert/Educator: Martian Meteorites: Providing clues to the Red Planet's Past
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Signup required

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

Session

Prajkta Mane, Lunar Planetary Institute (Participant)

Renee Gamba, Museum of Natural History and Planetarium/Providence Parks (Participant)

Learn about martian meteorites and all the exciting things they reveal about Mars. How did Martian meteorites get here? How do scientists know they...
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Featured Keynote- Gene Kranz
1 hour, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Signup required

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

Keynote

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...