Mrs Melinda Viteri
Mrs. Viteri serves as a Corporate/Private Partnership Advisor for Aviatiom Youth Mentoring Program non profit and is the Co-Founder. Mrs. Viteri is a British qualified elementary and high school teacher and has twenty years experience teaching at public and private schools in the United Kingdom and USA. She currently works as Aerospace Educator teacher at Milton Jewish Day School in Washington DC. She creates her own in-person and virtual Aviation and Space Camps which are approved by the FAA.
Mrs. Viteri's incredible career has span from one continent to another , Mrs. Viteri has for the past five years worked at the British International School of Washington DC teaching Kindergarten and then as a Learning Specialist Lead and MIT Coordinator for STEM Build a Plane. She established her own aviation non profit in 2015 in the USA and loves to rebuild airplanes with middle and high school students. She is the Education Chair for the Royal Aeronautical Society and sits on several aerospace boards. On a weekend Melinda enjoys family time at the airport, flying and hosting flight simulator sessions for local students. In 2018 she qualified as a NASA certified educator and has a vision to create the innovation needed to teach aerospace curriculum properly in schools globally.
Mrs. Viteri graduated from the University of Huddersfield, England where she gained qualified teacher status and believes that that teaching is a vocation. At the age of twenty five, Mrs. Viteri pursued her Masters Degree in Deaf Education, Speech Therapy and Audiology. She worked as Advisory Specialist to the government for Deaf and Blind children in the United Kingdom and was the Chair of Deaf Children’s Society UK. Mrs. Viteri is also a piano teacher for the Associated Board of Royal School of Music and has a 100% examination pass rate for piano and theory.
Sessions in which Mrs Melinda Viteri attends
- 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
- Cross-Curricular Coding to Engage Kids
- 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
- This session will discuss a number of ways that basic coding can be incorporated into the classroom and used to address a...
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- 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
- Protecting Astronauts in Space - Are You Up To The Challenge?
- 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
- We are going forward to the Moon and on to Mars! Help design innovative garments to protect astronauts from the hazards ...
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- SEEC Banquet
- Signup required
- 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 4 hours
- Poster/Networking session Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronuat Gallery
- 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Meet the SEEC regional crew member and learn about further STEM resources and opportunity.In addition, we know that many of yo...
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- Fairy Tale Engineering: Encouraging Young Students to Explore Space
- 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
- Centered around Margaret McNamara and Mark Fleming’s book Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot, this hands-on inquir...
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- Explore the History of Manned Space Flight
- 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
- Your journey into space begins with a guided tour of Space Center Houston’s Starship Gallery and Space Shuttle Mock-Up. Trace the progression of...
- Tour
- Quick lunch- 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
- From Soldier to Space Educator
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- This session will include a background of serving in the military to transitioning into a career in education and applying the history of spaceflig...
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- Building an Aerospace S.T.E.M. program in a Turnaround Elementary School
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Boardroom
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Discover some key elements to consider in building an Elementary Aerospace S.T.E.M themed campus. Come learn about the b...
- Session