Report from Headquarters
Teachers: Plan Now for Next Summer
Educators who want to improve their classroom skills, better motivate their students and – potentially – earn a master’s degree can sign up for Space Foundation Space Across the Curriculum teacher professional development classes. These week-long, intensive, graduate-level courses provide PreK-12 educators with space-related STEM education knowledge and content that is instantly transferable to the…
Students Use Rockets to Study Math
Eighth grade students at the Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy in Colorado Springs are incorporating rockets into their math classes. Swigert Academy math teacher Andre Paul helped his students launch pop rockets fueled by water and Alka Seltzer tablets. The students then measure the distance of the launches. The Space Foundation and Colorado Springs School District…
Science Lessons Atop Pikes Peak
In October, Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy students visited Pikes Peak, just west of Colorado Springs, to learn more about the physiological effects of altitude on heart rate. At a height of 14,110 feet, Pikes Peak serves as an ideal altitude lab for the students to record observations about changes in ecosystems and to use scientific probes to record changes…
NASA Launches OPTIMUS PRIME Award
NASA has launched a video contest for students, grades 3-8, that raises awareness of how NASA technologies contribute to our everyday lives. The awards will be presented next April during the Space Foundation’s 27th National Space Symposium at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. Colo. The contest has also been granted Certified Space Education Product…
Pulham Addresses Economic Forum
Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham spoke about the impact of the space industry on the local economy at the 14th Annual Southern Colorado Economic Forum in Colorado Springs in October. Participating in a panel that also comprised Norman Bellingham, chief operating officer of the United States Olympic Committee, and Tom Duening, the El Pomar chair of business…
Popular Mechanics Honors Swigert Award Winner
NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which was honored earlier this year by the Space Foundation with the John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration, has won Popular Mechanics’ 2010 Breakthrough Award for innovation in science and technology. The Swigert Award is given annually to an individual or organization for…
Space Technology Hall of Fame® Inductee Honored
Randy Kimble, Ph.D., who was inducted into the Space Foundation’s Space Technology Hall of Fame® in 1997, is among three employees of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who have been honored with the 2010 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science. About Kimble Kimble, who now works on the James Webb Telescope as Integration and Test…
CEO Pulham Tours Charles County Schools
Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham recently toured Charles County (Md.) Public Schools to see first-hand how the teachers are using the lessons they gained from Space Foundation Discovery Institute classes. The Space Foundation has been providing professional development classes for Charles County teachers for the past four years. Pulham said. “Education is so central to…
Scholarship Available for Hawaiian Teacher
Educators of Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian ancestry or who work with pre-K-12 students of Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian ancestry have an extraordinary opportunity to travel to Colorado Springs – for free – to learn how to use space in the classroom. Each year, the Space Foundation provides professional development opportunities for a qualified Hawaiian educator through the…
ISU Call for Papers Ends October 8
The deadline is rapidly approaching to respond to the International Space University’s (ISU) call for papers for its 15th Annual International Symposium. The deadline for submitting an approximately 300-word abstract on the extension of the International Space Station (ISS) is Oct. 8. ISU will notify authors of selected papers by Nov. 3, 2010. The symposium, which will be held Feb. 15-17, 2011, in…