NASA will bring the Vision for Space Exploration to students and their families at Arrowhead Elementary School in Phoenix next Monday, Nov. 14, with programs for both students and the general public.
NASA flight test engineer Martin Trout, from the Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California, will tell students about the agency’s space exploration goals, aeronautics research and other topics during student assemblies at 8:45 and 9:50 a.m. at Arrowhead Elementary, a NASA Explorer School.
The Vision for Space Exploration will also be shared with the public at a family night beginning at 6 p.m. Monday evening at the school. NASA aerospace education specialists Norman Robinson, from NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., and Beth White, from NASA Dryden, will present an instructional program including hands-on activities. The Phoenix Astronomical Society will have telescopes available for stargazing. Arizona State University personnel will provide a Mars solar system demonstration and display.
News media representatives interested in attending these events should contact Carol Jessen, Explorer School team lead at Arrowhead Elementary, at (602) 493-6050.
A graduate of the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California, Trout will encourage students to study math and science to prepare for careers in aeronautics and space during his presentation. As a flight test engineer at NASA Dryden, also at Edwards, he is involved in flight test planning, execution, and reporting of subsonic and supersonic research.
Arrowhead Elementary, located at 3829 E. Nisbet Road in Phoenix, is one of 50 elementary and middle schools across the nation selected to participate in the NASA Explorer Schools program in 2005. The NASA Explorer School (NES) program is designed to help educators and students from diverse communities across the country join NASA’s mission of discovery through educational activities and special learning opportunities tailored to promote science, mathematics, and technology applications.
Over the next three years, students in the NES program will have opportunities to participate in challenges and investigations and to work with NASA scientists and engineers through digital videoconferences. Educators will participate in weeklong workshops at NASA centers to learn new ways to involve their students in science, mathematics, and technology fields.
For more information about the NASA Explorer Schools program on the Internet, visit: http://explorerschools.nasa.gov
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