Shelley Potts
Teacher - M.S. Science & Stem, StellarXplorers Coach, CAP Aerospace Ed. Officer
South Belton Middle School, BISD
Shelley Potts is a self-proclaimed NASA Nerd and has even been called the Mary Poppins of Space. (She is always pulling space stuff out of her bags!)
Shelley is currently an Aerospace Education Officer for Civil Air Patrol and a middle school Science and STEM teacher at South Belton Middle School. She has had a team competing in StellarXplorers and a middle school space club.
Shelley attended Honeywell Educators at Space Academy in 2017, Advanced Space Academy in 2018, and has taught at a NASA Explorer School. She has taught at both SEEC and SPACE conferences. She attended Texas Space Grant Consortium's Lift-Off and Air Camp in 2019.
Current projects include Tomatosphere and serving as a Space Station Ambassador.
Sessions in which Shelley Potts 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
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
- STEAMtastic OUTREACH with the Canadian Space Agency CUBE SATELLITE Project
- 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
- The presentation will introduce the Canadian Space Agency CubeSat Project and its applications with middle and high schoo...
- 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
- Space Center University Survival Mission
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Do you and your students have what it takes to survive a submerged space capsule and get their team to safety? In the Spac...
- Session
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- How to Launch Your Robotics Club
- 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
- Interested in starting a robotics club but don't know where to start? Not sure if you know enough about robotics yourself...
- Session
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Designing and producing VR habitats
- 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
- Have your students ever done space habitats using cardboard, cups, and straws? Imagine how cool would it be to make them ...
- 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
5:15 PM
5:15 PM
- Networking Reception
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronuat Gallery
- 5:16 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 44 minutes
- Join the ISS National Lab for an evening of networking and learning we will be hosting a free reception to showcase our partners in the...
- Reception
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Thought Leader Series - Challenges of Building the Station Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour
- There will be a special Thought Leaders Series presented at 7:00pm. This year marks 20 years of humans continuously living and working off planet. ...
- Presentation
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
- Mission Possible: Grant-Writing 101
- 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
- The last keynote session of SEEC 2020 has ended, and teachers from NEAR AND FAR are headed back into their classrooms rea...
- 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
- 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...
- Session
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- Grant Writing Express
- 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
- Increase your skills at writing grant proposals! Learn the components needed for a successful proposal, directly from a grant reviewer/funder. Lear...
- 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
- Launch and Splashdown with Artemis I
- 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
- NASA’s Artemis I is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions that will enable human exploration to the Moon...
- Session
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- SEEC Banquet
- Signup required
- 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 4 hours
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- 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...
- Session
8:45 AM
8:45 AM
- How To Start a Robotics Team
- 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
- It’s hard to know which way to turn when beginning a robotics program whether it is students asking you to create a progr...
- Session
- Space Center University Flight Operations Mission
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- The Foundations of Mission Operations instill a culture of leadership that is unwavering in the highly stressful work that...
- Session
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Explore our Solar System with Thermal Imaging and Magnetism
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Mission Briefing Center- Preshow
- 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, participan...
- Session
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- 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
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Searching for Life: Europa Cryobot Mission for Students
- 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
- A hands-on lesson for students to create a 3-dimensional, real world cross section of Europa which will mimic NASA's even...
- Session
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Strange New Planet: Utilizing Phenomena Based Learning to Create Custom Units for your Classroom
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Saturn Club
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- This session will focus on how to create custom units for your classroom based in phenomena. Participants will be placed ...
- Session
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Any Bot, Any Place, Any Time: Creating Custom Robotics Competitions
- 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
- Robotics isn’t always “one size fits all.” This session’s focus is helping educators to use any available robotic technol...
- Session
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Keynote- Saturday
- 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
- Holly Ridings She is a mechanical engineer and the first woman to be chief flight director. She leads the elite gro...
- Keynote