Melissa Pore
Melissa Pore, M.Ed. KM4CZN is a STEM educator at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Virginia. She has taught for over 25 years in Texas, Maryland, and Virginia with a focus on technology and wireless communications. Melissa has led 3 student satellite missions to orbit and is a licensed Amateur Radio operator and an Ambassador for the Education Committee for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). She serves on the US ARISS Ops team at Goddard Space Flight Center, known as the original Space Shuttle Retransmission Station, performing antennae operations for ARISS education downlinks between schools and astronauts LIVE on the ISS. She was recently recognized by the Air & Space Forces Association (AFA) as Virginia State Teacher of the Year for 2022. She continues to expand her impact on education through work with commercial space partners and with government agencies focused on expanding access to all students, teacher retention/support, and student driven goals around equity. Her involvement outside the classroom includes such groups as SEEC Educator Crew, Space Station Explorers Ambassadors, Growing Beyond Earth Ambassadors, and as an active member of the User Advisory Committee (UAC) Education Subcommittee for the International Space Station National Laboratory (ISSNL) since 2020.
Sessions in which Melissa Pore participates
- The ARISS Education Proposal Process: How to Talk to an Astronaut LIVE with your Students!
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Participants will learn how to submit a competitive proposal to allow their students an experience to talk to an astronau...
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Sessions in which Melissa Pore attends
- SEEC Survival Course- Pre-Conference session
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket Tours Off-Site locations (take bus) - San Jac Maritime Campus
- 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Space Center U™ offers challenging, quality STEM education inspired by space exploration for students, adults and educators. The specific Space ...
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- 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...
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- 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,...
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- 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...
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- 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 ...
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- 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...
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- SEEC Crew Session one
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Mission Briefing Center
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- SEEC’s Space Educator Expedition Crew brings together exemplary educators from around the world to collaborate and further the mission of space ...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off-Site locations (take bus) - Building 9 Bus
- 9:20 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 40 minutes
- Explore the training grounds for the astronauts. See full- sized mock-ups of the International Space Station and Orion spacecraft. Take a peek a...
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- 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
- SEEC Crew work session
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 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...
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- 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...
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- Neutral Buoyancy Lab— Observation deck (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off-Site locations (take bus) - NBL BUS
- 1:10 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 35 minutes
- Take a trip to the pool where astronauts practice for their spacewalks—the NBL. This facility is the underwater training facility for astronauts...
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- Designing 3D Space Stations
- 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
- Learn to use online tools to design a 3D scale model of the the International Space Station. Then apply your knowledge to...
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