Frank Ritter
Science Teacher
Early Middle School
Sessions in which Frank Ritter attends
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
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Exoplanets in Our Backyard
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour
- Our generation is the first in human history to travel to other worlds. With the help of robots, we’ve seen the lava plains of Venus, the fire f...
- Presentation
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
- Session
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Keynote Session- Thursday
- 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
- Mike Kincaid oversees strategic direction and leadership of NASA’s STEM engagement function,...
- Keynote
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- The Emerging Commercial Space Industry
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 50 words: Did you know that CubeSats are becoming more important in the commercial space business? One cube-shaped unit i...
- Session
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Quick lunch 1
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery - Lunch 1
- 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | 15 minutes
- This option is for those who would like to grab a quick lunch and then go to a session. We need to make sure we have a good count for food for the ...
- Lunch
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Exciting NASA Digital Learning Opportunities for Educators
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Exciting, cutting-edge NASA professional development is available to educators free of charge through convenient digital ...
- Session
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Engineering Our Ride to the Moon
- 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
- NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will carry humans to the Moon and on to Mars. Meet rocket propulsion experts fro...
- Session
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- Microsoft Hacking STEM Lessons on the International Space Station
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Your students are about to solve spaceflight challenges that they never knew existed! Using hands on activities that...
- Session
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Keynote- Friday
- 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
- Lara KearneyDeputy Program Manager, Gateway Program Kearney serves as Gateway Deputy Progra...
- Keynote
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- R.O.A.D.S.on Mars
- 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
- R.O.A.D.S. on Mars stands for Rover Observation and Drone Survey is a team challenge for students in grades 3 - 12. The ...
- Session
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Quick Lunch- Lunch 1
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery - Lunch 1
- 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | 15 minutes
- This option is for those who would like to grab a quick lunch and then go to a session. We need to make sure we have a good count for food for the ...
- Lunch
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Ideas On How To Obtain Materials For Your Classroom Through Grant Writing
- 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
- This session will discuss strategies and techniques to obtain materials to create innovative materials/funding for your c...
- Session
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- The Origins of Underwater Neutral Buoyancy Astronaut Training
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Mission Briefing Center- Preshow
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- NASA does not have a “weightless room” but it has the next best thing: simulated weightlessness in a huge water tank. It should have been obviou...
- Session
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- GPS system and Relativity
- 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
- Students investigate how the Ground Positioning Satellite (GPS) system depend on Einstein's theories of general and special relativity to functi...
- Session
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Seeing Black Holes with an Earth-sized Telescope and Understanding the Image of M87*
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Participants utilize teacher resources from Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Activities explore: How does the...
- Session
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- SEEC Banquet
- Signup required
- 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 4 hours
8:45 AM
8:45 AM
- Simple Schlieren photography and diffraction of lasers in the classroom.
- 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
- Attendees will set up a simple Schlieren photography system for use in the classroom using plane mirrors and light emitti...
- Session