2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Early Bird Check in Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Main Plaza
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 3 hours
- Session
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
- SEEC 101
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 7:30 AM - 7:45 AM | 15 minutes
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
- Return to the Moon
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
- Session
- Space Wants YOU! Career Exploration
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Lonestar
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- NASA is more than astronauts, It's scientists, engineers, IT specialists, human resources specialists, writers, technicians and many others work...
- Session
- Geo-Inquiry: From Earth to Space with GeoSpatial Technology!
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Ready to engage your students in problem-based learning using National Geographic's Geo-Inquiry Process? Ask, Collect, Visualize, Create and Act! C...
- Session
- LIDAR Mapping with Lasers
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Destiny
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Learn about the history of LIDAR laser and its current uses. Understand how LIDAR laser measuring ...
- Session
- Space Environment Simulation Laboratory (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Vacumm chamber bus
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Planetary Analog Test Site (aka Rock Yard) (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Mars Yard Bus
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Neutral Buoyancy Lab— Observation deck (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - NBL BUS
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Houston - We're Solving Problems
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Destiny Theater
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Participants will work as teams to create an engineering build with materials commonly found in the classroom. Based on the Apollo 13 CAPCOM ...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- Launching Literacy with Space Exploration
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Launch space exploration into your ELA classroom! Presenters will share units that have successfully blended exploration and literacy. Partic...
- Session
- Voyager: Creating Your Own Golden Record
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Learn about the Voyager mission and its connection to the classroom with a digital engineering design challenge. Students create their own versi...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Going to Mars Without Leaving Earth
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- How would you perform in isolation, confinement, and remote conditions? The Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), a simula...
- Session
- Classroom Lasers Part 1
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
- Session
- Target Asteroid!: NASA Solar System Exploration
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Join us for this hands-on activity session and gain experience and insight into the process of selecting an asteroid to investigate as part of an e...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Abort! Propelling Astronauts to Safety
- 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
- 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...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Exploring the Universe: What is out there?
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What are ways scientists search for distant planets? What is gravitational lensing? Through a webinar with Dr. Ian Dell-Antonio, Professor of Physi...
- Session
- CAP's Free STEM Programs
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Saturn Club
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- From airplanes to rockets and robotics to drones, CAP provides it all to K-12 educators. Learn about how you can...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Results of the Year in Space/Twin Study
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Mission Briefing Center
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- On March 27, 2015 American Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko began their year in space aboard the International Space S...
- Session
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
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Launch Your Robotics Club of Tomorrow, Today!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Interested in starting a robotics club but don't know where to start? Not sure if you know enough about robotics yourself? Need a grant to get mate...
- Session
- Space4Everyone: Skills everyone should know for working with learners with disabilities
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Everyone will work with individuals with disabilities in their career. Ever wanted to learn skills to inspire these individuals? Experience fun and...
- Session
- They Drink What??? Designing a Water Filtration/Purification System
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Use curiosity about water recycling on the ISS to introduce a water filtration/purification engineering activity, consider applications in daily li...
- Session
- Solar system Mystery
- 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
- Participants will create a model of two unknown solar system objects, followed by applying math calculations to calculate scale models distances an...
- Session
- SEEC Crew Session one
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- SEEC’s Space Educator Expedition Crew brings together exemplary educators from around the world to collaborate and further the mission of space ...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: A simple experiment can prove me wrong
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Saturn Club
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Can scientific knowledge change? Or is it just our approach to science that changes? When students begin to learn about STEM subjects in school,...
- Session
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- Astronaut Dive Training (Dive Session) Double session
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Dive Session (Williams Pool Bus)
- 12:15 PM - 3:15 PM | 3 hours
- Session
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Lunch 2 Thursday
- 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
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- What's Math Got to Do With It? Making Critical Connections in the Mathematics Classroom
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Are you looking for authentic problems to promote understanding of 9-12 mathematical content? Explorations with data gathered from the Parker...
- Session
- Squishy Circuits
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Participate in an example of how to integrate the "A" (Arts) in STEAM. We will learn about basic circuits and how to teach them in a fun and engagi...
- Session
- Take STEM Literacy out of this world with Story Time and Science Time From Space!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Learn about the newest additions to the beloved Story Time From Space Program. Learn about science demonstrations that complement many of the...
- Session
- Grant Writing Express
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Increase your skills at writing grant proposals! Learn the components needed for a successful proposal, directly from a grant reviewer/funder. Lear...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Station, this is Mission Control
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Join Expert Jennifer Turner and Educator Amy Tinnell as they explore the world of ISS communication! Jennifer supports Mission Control as a CRONUS ...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: InSight: Taking the Vital Signs of Mars
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- UCLA and Lunar and Planetary Institute scientist Caroline Beghein will update participants on NASA’s historic InSight Mission, the first robotic ex...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- STEAM Powered Space Challenge
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The presenters will demonstrate how to create a STEAM multi-district collaboration for staff and competitions for students which include a culminat...
- Session
- National Geographic's Geo-Inquiry Process in Action!
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Lonestar
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- National Geographic invites you to empower students to think like space explorers. Join us for an interactive session to learn how The Geo-Inqui...
- Session
- When the sky is no longer the limit! Using IoT technology to make a Weather Station that will FLY IN SPACE"
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Participants will use one IoT technology solution to build a weather station/satellite that collects data from almost anywhere! From the top of a b...
- Session
- Plan An Orbital Space Station: A Semester-long STEM Project
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Destiny
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
- Session
- Mission Control Center (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Mission Control Bus
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Building 9 Bus
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Out of the Classroom; Into the Sky with CAP
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Ellington Field- CAP van
- 1:45 PM - 4:45 PM | 3 hours
- US citizen educators may join Civil Air Patrol and take a free flight over Houston during this double session! CAP vans will provide transpor...
- Session
- Dropping in on NASA's Commercial Crew Program
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Destiny Theater
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Did you know NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) is about to launch American astronauts using American vehicles from American soil once again? Par...
- Session
- Ignite Student Interest in STEM Careers
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Where would space exploration be without scientists? This session explores the wide range of science careers used by NASA, the many paths to ...
- Session
- Modeling the Expanding Universe
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Big Bang, the age of the universe, and the expanding and accelerating universe: this session will demonstrate a number of hands-on classroom ac...
- Session
- STEAMbots Robotics-It's Elementary
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- STEAMbots is for educators interested in infusing STEM concepts into elementary classrooms using robotics. Engage students in problem-solving, c...
- Session
- Expert/ Educator: To Boom or not to Boom
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Join Expert Orion System Manager Chris Matty and SCH educators Ashtyn Boggs and Ja’el Martin to learn about NASA’s Low Boom program to develop quie...
- Session
- Classroom Lasers Part 2
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Classroom Lasers Part 2 will be using simple lasers pointers in several hands-on activities. These activities will demonstrate refraction, reflecti...
- Session
- Orion Splashdown
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Learn about the future of the space program with the Space Launch System and the Orion capsule. Use the Engineering Design Process to design ...
- Session
- Bounding with NASA
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 1:45 PM - 4:45 PM | 3 hours
- In this session we'll look at three Mission Planning Activities to challenge, engage, and excite students in the design process. Two are old standa...
- Session
- The Search for Life on Mars and Beyond
- 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
- Does life exist beyond Earth? Join us and discover how to bring authentic astrobiology research into your classroom. Everything we know...
- Session
- Using Astronaut & Satellite Imagery to Compare Planetary Landforms
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Saturn Club
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Astronauts have long been taking images of Earth. Satellite imagery is an important part of student curriculum. Students gain an understanding of g...
- Session
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- Tracking Satellites, Orbits, & Modeling!
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Be empowered and ignite excitement with your students through the lens of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tracking as it applies to physics, art...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- How To Talk To An Astronaut 250 miles Above Us
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Mars Anomalies: Exploring Literacy and STEM Collaborations
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Destiny
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Experience the classroom edition of The Martian turned into an immersive team building, STEM, and literacy unit. Participate i...
- Session
- Neutral Buoyancy Lab— Visitors’ Gallery (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - NBL BUS
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Let's enjoy with the air: Balloon trampoline and Gagaku
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Destiny Theater
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Learn unique international educational activities that highlight the properties of air and what it can do. From balloons to Japanese musical ins...
- Session
- Small Steps to Giant Leaps: Looking to the Future of NASA Aeronautics Innovation and Exploring Sound with X-59
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Sound is something most of us take for granted, and rarely do we consider the physics involved. It can come from many sources, a voice, machinery, ...
- Session
- Cinespace: Calling all international space educators to produce space video stories
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Calling all international space educators for a networking session to share the great things happening in your region and learn how to participate ...
- Session
- The Eagle has Landed: A Hands-on Approach to Lunar Landings
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- As the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 nears, students will be immersed in the engineering, fascination, and the wonder of the moon. Starting off wit...
- Session
- Team Teach Lessons with Astronauts on the International Space Station
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Astronauts are teaching STEM lessons with microgravity demonstrations from the International Space Station. Johnson Space Center's STEM on Station ...
- Session
- Genes in Space - your DNA experiment in space!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
- Session
- Balloon Brain: Bringing Physics Down to Earth for K-5 Learners
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Participants in this session will actively engage in an integrated STEM/STEAM unit highlighting the hot air balloon. Attendees will participate in ...
- Session
- Living and Working on the ISS
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Living and Working together on the ISS, encompasses the skills necessary for crews with varied backgrounds and nationalities to work together to ac...
- Session
- Space Themed Quilts: Hands-On, No-Sew STEAM Education!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Saturn Club
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Experience no-sew quilting that takes you and your students out of this world! Discover uses of textiles in space exploration - past, present, and ...
- Session
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
- Starlight Social
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Main Plaza
- 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 3 hours
- 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...
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
- Modeling the Expanding Universe in the Classroom
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Expanding Universe - a teacher resource by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Activities explore how scientists use emission spectra ...
- Session
- One Launch, a Thousand Sparks: the Impact of Student-Developed Experiments
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Lonestar
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session provides educators with tools and confidence needed to engage an entire school community in a student-developed space experiment. Part...
- ISS National Lab's Space Station Explorers Latest and Greatest for Space Education including "Ant-stronauts"
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Space Station Explorers has over 20 programs that can help your students be inspired and engaged in real space science and research. As a non...
- Session
- Mars MAVEN and Planetary Magnetism
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Destiny
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In a collaborative classroom setup, Participants will act as scientists discovering magnetic fields and electromagnetism through inquiry and mea...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Space Travelers Guide to Packing for Mars - Tetris in Real Life
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Destiny Theater
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What does an astronaut require for extended travel in space? It isn't just about the mechanics - but what makes "home" f...
- Session
- Innovative Exploration: Teaching STEM Content with Origami in NASA Contexts
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- How do teachers prepare students to think like engineers, scientists, researchers, and mathematicians? Are educators equipping students with the...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- Inexpensive Space Activities for your Classroom (Revised)
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Are you interested in affordable, hands-on, curricular-connected space activities? Please join us for this workshop. Some of the activities done in...
- Session
- Coding for Kinder
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Bee Bots are exciting little robots designed for use by young children that bring fun into the classroom while learning sequencing, counting, and d...
- Session
- "STEM-Pals" - Traveling STEM Challenges
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Do you enjoy collaborating with other teachers around the world? Join us as we integrate literature and space science with traveling STEM ...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Lights, Camera... Space! Using HDEV to Bring Space to Your Teaching Plans
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Learn how to use NASA's High Definition Earth Viewing system in your reading and math lessons. Hear from experts about the latest news with t...
- Session
- Expert/ Educator: Working Under Pressure in Space Suits
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- How would you do performing critical space duties while working inside a balloon? The engineering of space suits have the issu...
- Session
- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Time Perception in Microgravity is a current ISS mission being conducted by neuroscience researcher Gilles Clément, Ph.D. Take your students on a j...
- Session
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Lunch 1 Friday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery - Lunch 1
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Expert/Educator: Productive Facilitation in Schools
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Pick up pointers on drawing out and utilizing the ideas and experience of your group! Expert Jim Oswald and Educator Laurie Newman will provide a h...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Space Rocks!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Session participants will learn about Martian meteorites including sediments from the Gale Crater from a meteoriticist and geochemist working as th...
- Our Solar System is BIG! Construct an outdoor model of the Solar System
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | 45 minutes
- 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...
- Session
- SEECing Science Buddies
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | 45 minutes
- SEECing Science Buddies provides interested educators with a program for implementing science mentoring between older and younger students. Init...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- Celebrating Apollo's 50th with NASA and the Peanuts Gang
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | 45 minutes
- For 60 years, NASA has inspired humans and beagles alike to travel into deep space. Join NASA, Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang as they prepare to...
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- Death, Destruction, and Mayhem: Using Simulator Classrooms to Teach 21st Century Skills
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Have you ever moderated tense peace negotiations in a world far away? Have you been tasked to discover the cause of an epidemic? Our students ge...
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11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Astronaut Dive Training (Dive Session) Double session
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Dive Session (Williams Pool Bus)
- 11:45 AM - 2:45 PM | 3 hours
- Craig Shannon, NBL Dive Master will show you how toTrain like astronauts in this exciting session! You will participate in underwater t...
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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
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- Developing Powerful Programs That Last
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Are you struggling to gain support for your STEM Program? In this session we will introduce strategies that work for the developing sustainable pro...
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- Martian Water
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Within their journey to Mars, participants will work alongside the Curiosity Rover to decipher which mystery liquid is water. Scientific knowledge,...
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- Floating, Eating, and Target Practice
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Floating, Eating, and Target Practice teaches about the challenges of living and working in space. From popcorn balls to balloons, participants wil...
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- Coding a Jr. Botball robot using C++
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Participants will learn basic coding, using C++, to code a Jr. Botball robot to complete introductory challenges. Participants will be introd...
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- Grappling with a Robotic Arm
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- During this session, you will learn the importance of a robotic arm on the International Space Station. You will then build and participate i...
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- SEEC Crew work session
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- SEEC Crew: SEEC’s Space Educator Expedition Crew brings together exemplary educators from around the world to collaborate and further the missio...
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- Expert/Educator: InSight: Taking the Vital Signs of Mars (copy)
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- UCLA and Lunar and Planetary Institute scientist Caroline Beghein will update participants on NASA’s historic InSight Mission, the first robotic ex...
- Session
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Mission to Mars: Using "The Martian" as a Launchpad to Hands-On Study
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
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- Not your Average Space Activities
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- West Ward was and has NEVER BEEN average! Please join us for 18 years worth of activities from our relationship with NASA, commercial space and Spa...
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- MissionX: Train Like an Astronaut
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Destiny
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Participants in this workshop will be presented with a potential model of implementation of the MissionX program. The case study is a 4th grade ...
- Session
- Planetary Analog Test Site (aka Rock Yard) (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Mars Yard Bus
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour the large multi-acre test area that simulates general features of the lunar and Martian surface terrain environment consisting of various s...
- Tour
- 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
- Texas High School Aerospace Scholars: Decision Mars
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Destiny Theater
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Be a part of NASA's travel from Moon to Mars! Join NASA Johnson Space Center Education Specialists to develop a unique mission to Mars. In this ses...
- Modifications and Adaptations for Students with Unique Abilities: Using Genetics by Making Your Own Dragon
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In today’s classroom, teachers are teaching students with unique needs. These unique students may include students on the autistic spectrum, ...
- Session
- Astro Spud Survival Challenge
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Fly into space with the Astro Spud Design Challenge. Join us for this hands-on lesson that will allow you to inspire and engage your students...
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- Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disk Certification- Double session
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 1:15 PM - 4:15 PM | 3 hours
- Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disks are real geologic samples in a Lucite disk. The Lunar Sample Disk has samples returned from Apollo astronaut...
- Where Space Science and Art - Intersection STEAM
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Explore the intersection of where art and science meet in this integrated STEAM aerospace workshop. Participants will explore the interplay of basi...
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- Expert/Educator: The Components of a Mars Habitat with HERA
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The 2018 Alan Shepard Award winner, Diego Martinez, will present on his student created Mars Habitat Components and mock landing. Over 8 separat...
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- Let's Go Into Orbit
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
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- Let's enjoy with the air: Balloon trampoline and Gagaku (copy)
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Learn unique international educational activities that highlight the properties of air and what it can do. From balloons to Japanese musical ins...
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- NASA STEM in Your Classroom
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Interested in NASA hands-on lessons and activities related to the Heliophysics (the Sun) and Earth Science for K-5th students in formal and informa...
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3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Fantastic Forces with Bernoulli
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session will provide multiple hands-on, easy to implement, low or no cost activities to add a bit of excitement in your classroom! Explo...
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- Coding with Curiosity
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Lonestar
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Need new ideas to engage your elementary students in Engineering and Technology? Want to build and program the Curiosity Rover? In this...
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- Which Rocks Made This Sand? Or What Happened to the Rocks
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
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- Build Your Planetarium
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Destiny
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Don't want to spend $6,000 on a planetarium? Fan filled planetarium won't inflate in the wind? On a budget? Come learn how to build a portable plan...
- Session
- Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Building 9 Bus
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Escape Space: Unlocking The Airlock to Survival
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Destiny Theater
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- There's an emergency on space station! Energy and oxygen levels are low, pressure is decreasing, the hatch door is stuck and the crew begins to pan...
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- CuRE (Cancer Microgravity Research Experiment): Helping students understand antigen-antibody interactions as a space-based cure for cancer.
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Micro-gravity may help cure cancer! Teachers will learn the science behind a unique experiment using micro-gravity to a new antibody-conju...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Are we there yet?
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Making the Cut in Space
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Come learn about the collaboration between students from Immaculata Catholic School in
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- The Space Adventure
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Space Adventure is a student-centered, hands-on science lesson for grades k-2. Join the journey into space as we discover the concept of grav...
- Session
- Space App Attack!!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Participants will engage in new and innovative technology apps for their space lessons to engage their 21st century learners. Participants wi...
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- 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 ...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Let's Eat!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Educators will learn how food is prepared for its mission to space and how space scientists use space bars to balance the nutr...
- Session
- Space Weight......or is it Mass?
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Saturn Club
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Our session will include hands on activities using a mini Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL), that can be focused on the youngest learner. We will explore ...
- Session
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- SEEC Banquet
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Main Plaza
- 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 4 hours
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
- Saturn V and Rocket Park Tour
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Saturn V Building
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- Tour
- International Collaboration: Bridging the STEM gap in China
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- With the help from US and Canadian teachers, STEM education in China gained momentum this past summer. This session will introduce participants to ...
- Session
- Using space to engage Elementary Mathematicians
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Briefing Room
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- 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...
- Session
- 3-2-1 Launch to Learning with PLTW VEX
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- This session will take you beyond the Troposphere for an out of this world experience! Join us as we operate Project Lead the Way VEX Robotics t...
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- Creating Your K-8 Makerspace with Confidence & Under Budget
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- This hands-on workshop will focus on how to create a STEAM Lab/MakerSpace on a budget by using everyday and recycled materials. In additio...
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- Getting a Feel for Space: Resources for the Blind / Visually Impaired
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- NASA has acquired thousands of images, video, and data that help us to visualize, interpret, and map planetary surfaces. What about students who ar...
- Session
- Launching Student Dream: Ballooning to the Edge
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- A fun filled Physics investigation of near real time data acquisition showcasing the efforts of LCATS students to develop, build and collect the da...
- Session
- Alaskan Astronauts - An Earth analog above the Arctic Circle
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- Space, a hostile environment. Isolated and confined, increased radiation levels and far from help. These are the conditions faced by our astronauts...
- Session
- Seeing in the Dark: Preserving Dark Skies
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- 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...
- Session
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- NASA HERA TOUR
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - HERA Tour
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- HERA is a unique three-story habitat designed to serve as an analog for isolation, confinement, and remote conditions in explorati...
- Tour
- Explore the History of Manned Space Flight
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Starship Gallery Tour
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Saturn V and Rocket Park Tour
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Saturn V Building
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Making Waves: Using Ham Radio to teach electromagnetic waves and to talk around the world
- 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
- Amateur Radio is a fun way to teach the electromagnetic spectrum. There is NO age limit ? ten year olds have earned their license and can talk to t...
- Session
- Noctis Landing or Bust! A Martian Coding & Engineering Challenge
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
- Session
- Explore Our Solar System Using Thermal Energy and Magnetism!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Engaging activities explore how spacecraft are used to map the solar system. Using Juno spacecraft as a guide, participants investigate infra...
- Session
- NASA's Eyes on the Solar System: An Integrated ELA Approach
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Many struggle regarding integrating Language Arts and Science. However, with NASA's Eyes on the Solar System there?s a way. This session focuses...
- Session
- Race Into Space with Dr. Seuss
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- K-5 cosmic cadets will love these mini-lab science stations; each designed around a Dr. Seuss book. Available in English and Spanish, these station...
- Session
- 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....
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- A Mission to Mars: Inspiring STEM Through Stories
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Make STEM more accessible and engaging by integrating a storyline through a series of space-themed STEM challenges. Your students will transform in...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: SimEVA
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Saturn Club
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This simulated spaceflight mission will provide first hand experience with the roles of ground and flight crews. Participation will support practic...
- Session
- Project Apollo: Recollection and Meaning
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Mission Briefing Center
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions, an overview of the program as the presenter experienced it, as a student, later in college partici...
- Session
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Lunch 1 Saturday
- 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
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Art and Science of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Presentation Description: Prior to Skylab, Mir and the ISS, was the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL). This partially classified program ...
- Session
- Ready for Lift-off!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- 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...
- Session
- The Physics of Light Using Light Emitting Diodes
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Participants will be shown how to do hands on activities using light emitting diodes. Including the energy of the photon, diffraction pattern...
- Session
- Space Week
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- An energetic session on Energy; Matter that matters; and Space, or lack thereof
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Activities to enhance your students? observation skills. Learn how little land is available for cu...
- Session
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
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Exoplanet Art
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Learn about the Kepler Space Telescope and other telescopes that discover exoplanets. Apply understanding of current planets to create fictional pl...
- Session
- Story Time from Space: Using NASA?s In-Orbit readings to boost STEAM learning in your classroom!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Spice up your elementary reading lesson with Story Time from space! Learn how to integrate NASA?s In-orbit readings to boost STEAM learning in your...
- Session
- Spark Interest in STEM: Creating a Personal Mission Patch
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- What makes your students light up? Learn how to get students more engaged in STEM by helping them identify their own "spark" or passion. Student sp...
- Session
- STEM Literacy "The Balancing Act"
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Session
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Explore the History of Manned Space Flight
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Starship Gallery Tour
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Saturn V and Rocket Park Tour
- Signup required Tours Off- Site locations (take bus) - Saturn V Building
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- ELAted For Space
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session is designed for English educators who are looking to incorporate hands-on activities into their classrooms and Science educators wanti...
- Session
- Living and Working on the ISS
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Living and Working together on the ISS, encompasses the skills necessary for crews with varied backgrounds and nationalities to work together to ac...
- Session
- The Why, When and Where of the Webb space telescope.
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Why, When and Where of the Webb space telescope. This workshop will develop and explain the science that will be nourished when the James...
- Session
- Expert/Educator: Martian Meteorites: Providing clues to the Red Planet's Past
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Learn about martian meteorites and all the exciting things they reveal about Mars. How did Martian meteorites get here? How do scientists know they...
- Session
- Creating and Implementing Large-Scale Student/Family Engagement Activities
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Through this hands-on STEM-based session, learn six how teachers from a variety of backgrounds (including high school English, career tech, element...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
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