Students Visit AGS Exhibit Center

As part of the Space Foundation's educational outreach, more than 300 middle and senior high school students from throughout Nebraska and parts of Iowa toured high-tech space exhibits Nov. 3-4 at the Strategic Space Symposium at the Qwest Center Omaha. The tours were co-sponsored by Lockheed Martin and the NASA Nebraska Space Grant.

The student tours included briefings at 11 of the almost 40 exhibits in the AMERICOM Government Services (AGS) Exhibit Center:

• The Aerospace Corp.
• AGI
• ATK
• Bellevue University
• Boeing
• Harris IT
• Hawkeye Vision, Inc.
• Lockheed Martin 
• Missile Defense Agency
• NASA Nebraska Space Grant
• Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

The Strategic Space Symposium education events complement the overall Space Foundation education program.

For more on the educational events at the Strategic Space Symposium, click here.

To read more about the Strategic Space Symposium, read the articles in this issue of Space Watch.