Exploring Small Worlds at Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO | Record Attendance at 2010 JPL Open House | Discovery & New Frontiers Bring NASA to Boaz, Alabama | Science Unwrapped Presentation by Mark Sykes | |||
In 2010, Mid-continent Research for Education & Learning (McREL) teamed up with NASA’s Discovery Program missions, University of Maryland, and the Space Science Institute’s National Center of Interactive Learning (NCIL) to herald the EPOXI, Stardust-NExT and Dawn missions’ arrival at their respective comets and asteroids - Learn more about the workshop |
Nearly 40,000 people attended the 2010 JPL Open House, including Dawn, a teacher who faithfully visits the Dawn booth every year. - Mission Control - Highlights from 2010 JPL Open House - Photo slide show |
An October 2009 visit to classrooms in Boaz, Alabama coordinated by Shari Asplund for the Discovery and New Frontiers (D/NF) Programs became "NASA Week," reaching 2,000 students at all five city schools. - Discovery Newsletter - Gadsden Times Article |
In June, 2009, nearly 300 explorers traveled through a simulated model of the solar system at Utah State University. After featured speaker Mark Sykes' evening lecture: The Dawn Mission: The Origin of Life and the Great Planet Debate, Sykes greeted the travelers at the end of their orbit at "Pluto," where they enjoyed an out-of-this world treat—Aggie Ice Cream. - Salt Lake Tribune article |
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Flipping Our Way Around Vesta: Creating an Asteroid Animation | Lecture: Mars, Saturn, Asteroids and Beyond | Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) at Denver Academy of Torah | Helping define planets, dwarf planets, and asteroids | |||
In addition to creating their own animated flipbook of Hubble images taken of asteroid, Vesta, students enjoyed llearning about accretion and simulated a model of Vesta with different-colored clay.
- Photo slideshow - Join the Vesta Exploration - Modeling in 3-D - Vesta Flipbook |
Chase a comet onboard ROSETTA and swoop past volcanoes at Jupiter’s Io on the way to Pluto. Visit the Shuttle Launch Pad with Dr. Ken Kremer on December 7, 2010 as NASA readies the final Hubble Servicing Mission. His lecture includes spectacular 3-D images placing you "Beyond Earth". - Learn more |
7th and 8th graders and their teacher, Rabbi Hyiam Reiffman, pilot tested Seeing Faraway Things as though Nearby using Calibrated Peer Review (CPR). Their classroom buzzed as the students learned about the discovery of telescopes, assessed each other’s writing, and voiced their perspective on the experience. - Photo slideshow |
Read about how the decision by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2006 has redefined the term planet in the Science Scope's Science Sampler about NASA's Dawn mission. - Science Scope article |
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Finding Meteorites After School | Dawn at STEMapalooza! What on Earth? | A Dream Come True: Searching for Meteorites | Girl Scouts Provide Feedback on Dawn Find a Meteorite | |||
Find out how NASA's Dawn Find A Meteorite (FAM) interactive tool has been used successfuly in afterschool settings to investigate and explore properties in matter to further enhance students' understanding of the mysteries and origin of the solar system. - Learn more |
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) came together in Denver, Colorado on October 24–25, 2008 for a palooza! - Learn more |
"It wasn't until 2006, when I found myself seated at a meeting with Ralph Harvey, the head of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program, that I could now seek the opportunity to pursue my dream of searching for meteorites...." - Dr. Lucy McFadden's 2008 presentation |
On November 2, 2007 in Brighton, Colorado, McREL's Dawn Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) lead, John Ristvey, presents an overview of the Find A Meteorite (FAM) interactive tool. - Learn more |
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Image of Dawn Spacecraft 600,000 miles away | All Aboard the Dawn Spacecraft | 2007 Dawn Educator Conference | Santa Monica Astronomy Club Features Dawn Mission | |||
Bill Dillon, regular advanced user of Sierra Stars Observatory, used the Sierra Stars Observatory telescope to image the Dawn spacecraft early in October, 2007. The spacecraft was only 20th magnitude and moving fast. Dawn was in a fairly crowded star field at the time, but, fortunately, the spacecraft was not hidden behind stars. - Enlarge image |
During the "Send Your Name to the Asteroid Belt" campaign, more than 360,000 people signed up to participate in a virtual voyage to the asteroid belt. The computer chip holding all the participants’ names has been installed on the Dawn spacecraft in preparation for flight in Fall 2007. - See Feature Story |
Science educators from more than 20 states convened in Cape Caneveral, Florida for the Dawn Mission Educator Conference, June 28-30, 2007. - Read more
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In Santa Monica, California, Dawn's Deputy Principal Investigator, Carol Raymond, presents an overview of the goals, science, technology, and challenges of the Dawn Mission at the May 2007 Santa Monica Astronomy Club meeting.
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2007 NSTA Educator's Workshop, St. Louis, MO | 2007 Dawn Educator Workshop in Denver, CO | Visit to Glenn Research Laboratory | Astronomy Day at Kansas City, School District | |||
McREL E/PO lead presents overview of the History and Discovery of Asteroids module at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
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At the Denver Museum of Natural History in Denver, Colorado, Lucy McFadden, Dawn E/PO Director & Co-Investigator walks interested participants through the Find a Meteorite interactive to learn how meteorites provide clues to unlocking the mysteries of the asteroid belt.
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In April, 2007 Lucy McFadden, Dawn E/PO Director & Co-Investigator visited the team developing the Next Generation Ion Propulsion technology at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. - Learn more
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On April 21, 2007, under the direction of Bob Riddle, students celebrated Astronomy Day at the Kansas City, Missouri Planetarium. In addition to watching presentations to increase awareness about astronomy, students learned how to spot Vesta in the morning sky and experimented with the Ion Propulsion interactive.
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JPL Open House | NASA Student Involvement Program Awards Ceremony | Calibrated Peer Review | ||||
The
Dawn
Mission
Team
participated
in
JPL
Open
House
at
Pasadena,
California May
20-21,
2006.
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Medals
are
presented
to
students
at
the Milken
Community
Middle
School during
the
NASA
Student
Involvement
Program
awards
ceremony
May
23,
2005
by
E/PO manager, Joe
Wise.
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In November 2004, teachers tapped into cutting-edge educational
technology during a three-day Calibrated
Peer Review ™ workshop sponsored by the
Dawn mission.
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