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Date: March 7, 2015
Target Audience: K-12 educators
Locations/Times:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California: 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. PT
UCAR - Boulder, Colorado: 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. MT
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas: 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. CT
Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland: 11:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET
For more information and to register, visit: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/discovery/design_of_discovery.asp. The deadline to register is February 20.
Overview: What does it take for scientists and engineers to work together and move fantastic ideas from dream to reality to meet the challenges of complex missions? Find out in the Discovery Program's fifth annual workshop with a special focus on the engineering solutions associated with space exploration. Be the first to learn a new guided-engineering, maker-based "design a mission" project to help students understand the relationship between scientific objectives and the engineering and design process.
• Hear the latest on emerging science from the New Horizons mission as it begins to return images of Pluto -- after more than nine years of travel!
• Follow the ion-propelled Dawn mission as it nears orbit around dwarf planet Ceres.
• Learn how the MESSENGER mission -- after returning so much fantastic science data about Mercury -- will make a big bang once it runs out of fuel.
Hands-on, standards-aligned science and engineering activities and multimedia interactives:
• For both K-12 and out-of-school time educators
• Break-out sessions at varying grade levels
Resource materials:
• A flash drive containing mission-designed curriculum and activities for all grade levels with links to great online interactives.
• Posters, bookmarks, stickers and more!
The cost of the workshop is $25. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
Webinar Option:
For those who cannot attend in person, the panel discussions will be streamed live and archived. See the workshop website for the link as the time gets closer.
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