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.
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Sessions in which Melissa Pore participates
Thursday 4 February, 2021
Sessions in which Melissa Pore attends
Thursday 4 February, 2021
Dr. Kjell N. Lindgren was selected by NASA in 2009. He spent most of his childhood abroad and returned to the U.S. to complete his education and earn a Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Colorado. He is board certified in emergency and aerospace medicine. After serving as the Deputy Crew Surgeon for STS-130 and Expedition 24, he was selected as an astronaut in June 2009 as one of 14 members of the 20th NASA astronaut class. Dr. Lindgren flew on Expedition 44/45 and logged 141 days i...
Friday 5 February, 2021
How did we get here from the Big Bang? Astronomers, geologists, and biologists all look back in time to work out the picture. I will show the history of the universe from the Big Bang to now, and how we found out. I will show the basic forces leading to complexity, from hurricanes to life. And how far can we go? That depends on our ingenuity, and on what Nature gives us to work with. Let’s get on with it!John C. MatherDr. Mather is the Senior Proje...
Do you want to find out about the latest NASA innovation for human exploration? Then this is the panel for you. Learn about the upcoming Artemis Mission and all of the innovation being developed to explore the Moon and keep our astronauts safe.Dr. Kathleen Boggs serves as the Capability Integration Strategy Lead in Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA. She leads strategic planning for development and demonstrat...
A highlight of SEEC is the Friday evening banquet, and this year will be no exception. The evening will kick off with a heartfelt welcome and thank you to all organizers, presenters, and participants. This will be followed by the announcement of the Cherri Brinley Outstanding Educator Award. The evening’s celebrations will continue in special Virtual Lounges where guests can mingle, chat and try their hand at our offerings. Be sure to pop in and out of any lounges to enjoy all the amazing act...
Saturday 6 February, 2021
ATTENDEES MUST ENTER PASSWORD TO VIEW TOURS: SEEC2021!Join our virtual tours of Space Center Houston as well as other partner tours.SEEC 2021 Sp...
Join us for a special panel on the research being conducted on the International Space Station. The event will be led by Dr. Liz Warren, Ph.D., Senior Program Director, ISS National Laboratory. Lucie LowDr. Lucie Low is a Scientific Program Manager for the NIH Tissue Chips (also known as ‘organs-on-chips’) program at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is also the NIH-NASA Liaison Point of Contac...
Persevering with innovation is a consistent theme in science fiction and in real life. Join us as author Andy Weir, astronaut Cady Colman, and IntelChief Data Scientist Melvin Greer, discuss ScienceFiction, ScienceFuture, and ScienceNow through the lens of space exploration and Andy’s new book Project Hail Mary.Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowe...