Elementary and Secondary Education

NEAT Member’s School Teams Share ARMD Competition’s Awards
POC:  Lynn Harden, Carolyn.S.Harden.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
MD:  Aeronautics Research
Goddard Network of Educator Astronaut Teachers (NEAT) member Glenn Elert reported that his school (Midwood HS, Brooklyn, NY) fielded teams that won the Second Place and Honorable Mention Awards in the high school level competition of “Air Transportation in 2057” sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. The high school level competition attracted nearly 90 submissions from America and six other nations.
http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/edu_fa_essay_contest_07.htm
 

GSFC NEAT Member to Host ISS Downlink
POC:  Lynn Harden, Carolyn.S.Harden.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
MD:  Space Operations
Goddard Network of Educator Astronaut Teachers (NEAT) member Ken Forman will host an ISS Downlink at Central Islip HS on Thursday afternoon, May 31. Expedition 15 flight Engineer, Astronaut Sunita Williams will answer questions from students throughout the Central Islip Public School District between approximately 2:00 p.m. and 2:18 p.m. (EDT), and the event will be carried live on the Web and NASA TV. Ken returned to his school system this year following an IPA assignment in the Teaching From Space office at JSC.
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
 

Learning Technologies Supports Pete Worden in Second Life Speech at ISDC
POC:  Daniel Laughlin, daniel.d.laughlin@nasa.gov
CC:  eEducation
Ames Center Director Pete Worden was the first NASA Center Director to do a presentation in the persistent immersive synthetic environment Second Life during the International Space Development Conference, May 26, 2007. Dr. Worden spoke about the importance of small satelites, collaborative science and how virtual world (persistent immersive synthetic environments) will enable us to "all go" to space. The LT project office and LT team at JSC support the presentation moderating questions from the Second Life audience.
http://isdc.nss.org/2007
 

NASA Learning Technologies to host NASA CoLab Salon on Real Science and Engineering in Virtual Worlds
POC:  Daniel Laughlin, daniel.d.laughlin@nasa.gov
CC:  eEducation
Designing a massively multi-player, collaborative game engine for science and technology. Are game engines up the challenge of doing real science and engineering? As long as we've been using modern computers, we've been using them to do scientific research. ENIAC was used to model ballistic trajectories for artillery shells. Today scientists model global processes and engineers work with digital models. The central question of this salon is whether the power of game engines has evolved to the point where real science and engineering can be done on personal computers on a network.
http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/virtual
 

Learning Technologies to participate in Experiment Virtual Worlds Conference
POC:  Daniel Laughlin, daniel.d.laughlin@nasa.gov
CC:  eEducation
Ludium II will bring together 400 participants from industry, government and academia for a two day experimental conference on public policy and virtual worlds. Participants will be engaged in an interactive, live-action, game environment for two days to address real issues through informed play. Leading workers and thinkers in the field of persistent immersive synthetic environments will participate in the revolutionary event sponsored by the Sythetic Worlds Initiative at the University of Indiana.
http://www.indiana.edu/~swi/ludium02.htm
 

Upcoming Events

GSFC NEAT Member to Host ISS Downlink
05/31/2007
POC:  Lynn Harden, Carolyn.S.Harden.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
MD:  Space Operations
Goddard Network of Educator Astronaut Teachers (NEAT) member Ken Forman will host an ISS Downlink at Central Islip HS on Thursday afternoon, May 31. Expedition 15 flight Engineer, Astronaut Sunita Williams will answer questions from students throughout the Central Islip Public School District between approximately 2:00 p.m. and 2:18 p.m. (EDT), and the event will be carried live on the Web and NASA TV. Ken returned to his school system this year following an IPA assignment in the Teaching From Space office at JSC.
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
 

NASA Learning Technologies to host NASA CoLab Salon on Real Science and Engineering in Virtual Worlds
05/31/2007
POC:  Daniel Laughlin, daniel.d.laughlin@nasa.gov
CC:  eEducation
Designing a massively multi-player, collaborative game engine for science and technology. Are game engines up the challenge of doing real science and engineering? As long as we've been using modern computers, we've been using them to do scientific research. ENIAC was used to model ballistic trajectories for artillery shells. Today scientists model global processes and engineers work with digital models. The central question of this salon is whether the power of game engines has evolved to the point where real science and engineering can be done on personal computers on a network.
http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/virtual
 

Learning Technologies to participate in Experiment Virtual Worlds Conference
06/22/2007 - 06/23/2007
POC:  Daniel Laughlin, daniel.d.laughlin@nasa.gov
CC:  eEducation
Ludium II will bring together 400 participants from industry, government and academia for a two day experimental conference on public policy and virtual worlds. Participants will be engaged in an interactive, live-action, game environment for two days to address real issues through informed play. Leading workers and thinkers in the field of persistent immersive synthetic environments will participate in the revolutionary event sponsored by the Sythetic Worlds Initiative at the University of Indiana.
http://www.indiana.edu/~swi/ludium02.htm