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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
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...
- Session
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...
- Session
- 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,...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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
- Session
- 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...
- Session
- 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