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Thursday 7 February, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Return to the Moon
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration

Session

Rebecca Moreland, Highland Middle School (Participant)

Joyce Hill, Texas Space Grant Consortium (Participant)

Margaret Baguio, NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium (Participant)

Current plans have astronauts exploring the surface of the moon! How do the Earth and Moon compare? How did the Moon form?  What causes phases...
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
STEAM Powered Space Challenge
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
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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
Tracking Satellites, Orbits, & Modeling!
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
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Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration

Session

Ms. Frances Dellutri, National Space Society (Participant)

Lynne Zielinski, National Space Society (Participant)

Be empowered and ignite excitement with your students through the lens of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tracking as it applies to physics, art...

Friday 8 February, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Modeling the Expanding Universe in the Classroom
1 hour 30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
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Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration

Session

Emily Neuheimer, Perimeter Institute (Outreach Teacher Network) (Participant)

The Expanding Universe - a teacher resource by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Activities explore how scientists use emission spectra ...
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
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Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration

Session

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

Learn how to use "The Martian" to inspire learning in science through hands-on study. See what one teacher did to get her students excited about le...
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
Fantastic Forces with Bernoulli
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
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Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration

Session

Holly Mentillo, Ocean Breeze Elementary (Participant)

Betty Bigney, Sneads Ferry Home School (Participant)

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...