| Presenter Name | Date of Activity | Program Name and Description | Facility Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs. Becca Sepan | 11/4/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Presentation to the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Information Technology at Landsdowne High School. Invited as a guest speaker to give the students an idea of what my career is like, including some details about the New Horizons and MESSENGER missions. | Landsdowne High School |
| Mr. Hadi NAvid | 10/28/2009 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, Solar Probe, STEREO, MSL, Topic of discussion/presentation was the field of Mechanical Engineering and how it relates to design and construction of space flight hardware. | National Electronics Museum |
| Dr. Debra Buczkowski | 10/22/2009 | CRISM, I presented a discussion on Mars geology and geography, along with a introduction the CRISM instrument and the use of the CRISM-Map tool, to the students involved in the Mars Exploration Student Data Teams associated with the CRISM project. | JHU/APL |
| Ms. Christina Hammock | 10/3/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Expand Your Horizons STEM Career expo for middle school girls | Stevenson University |
| Dr. Eddie Tunstel | 10/3/2009 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, MER, MetroKidz Career Day -- opportunity to share engineering career information, my experiences, and paths to success in the profession. Also provided an overview of what I do and what the JHU/APL Space Dept. does overall. | Charm City Church |
| Mr. Carl Ercol | 10/1/2009 | NEAR, STEREO, We watched the carriers in space video and did the lunar cratering experiment with approximately 15 brownies. Both were well received as were the handout that we provided. | Davidsonville Elementry School |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 9/15/2009 | CRISM, Hands-on geology detective game was set up at a booth in Education Alley. Students solved hands-on geology mysteries and puzzles to learn mineral and rock characteristics and identification. Emphasis was on minerals that are found on both Earth and mars and the type of work that scientists do. | Pasadena Convention Center |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 8/3/2009 | LRO, Played short educational ovreview video then did a hands-on cratering activity and discussed Mini-RF technology. In addition to materials listed above, stickers and pins were distributed. | Colorado Convention Center |
| Mr. Ken Honecker | 8/3/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Event is a 5 day Cub Scout day camp sponsored by the 4Rivers District of the Baltimore Council. Camp is held at Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds with different themes each year. Theme for this year's camp is space, so the materials provided will support the program for the week. Event organizers were very pleased to receive the materials due to their quality and relevance. | Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds |
| Dr. Christopher Michaelis | 7/24/2009 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, TIMED, Attended from JHU/APL SD: Chris Michaelis and Bryon Hargis Talked with the kids about the work we do as engineers. We spent 15 minutes discussing the NASA satellites at APL and showed them a video highlighting civilian space projects. We spent another 10 minutes showing them other work we do through AMDD. We both judged a MESA balsa bridge building competition they have been working on for the past 2 weeks. We showed them a video of the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. We discussed careers. | Ilchester Elementary School |
| Dr. Debra Buczkowski | 7/23/2009 | CRISM, I gave a talk on bringing Mars research to the classroom to the Science Foundation Teachers’ Tour of APL group. I discussed Mars geology, geography and missions, as well as the CRISM instrument and the CRISM MESDT program. | JHU/APL |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 6/27/2009 | MESSENGER, MESSENGER, Presentation on the background on Mercury, historical exploration of Mercury, and the MESSENGER Mission, including images and science results from the the flybys in 2008. | Green Bank National Radio Observatory |
| Ms. Keri Johnson | 6/25/2009 | a specific mission will not be covered, MESA after school program's national competition Submitted by Leeha.Herrera@jhuapl.edu | Hotel - MESA National Competition |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 6/24/2009 | TIMED, Lecture about TIMED objectives, instruments, and science. Hands on graphing activity that related earth's atmosphere to take back to classroom. | University of Alaska |
| Ms. Helene Winters | 6/8/2009 | Mini-RF, 3rd Grade Career Day | Hammond Elementary School |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 5/30/2009 | CRISM, GEOSPACE/LWS, MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, RBSP, Cheryl Reed, Kerri Beisser, Linda Butler and I conducted hands-on booth activities which included magnetism, gyroscope, and clean room suit activities. A variety of missions were discussed, RBSP and STEM careers such as science and engineering were the focus. | Baltimore Convention Center |
| Mrs. Rebecca Sepan | 5/22/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Spoke with four third grade classes (two groups of 40) about my work and "daily life" on the mission ops teams for New Horizons and MESSENGER during Hilltop Elementary's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Day. | Hilltop Elementary School, AA County |
| Mr. Matthew Angert | 5/20/2009 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Described what engineers do and what APL space department is involved in. Encouraged kids to become involved in math and science. Discussed recent APL missions and showed some launch videos. Also had one child try on a clean room suit for each of the six sessions. | Friendship Elementary |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 5/14/2009 | MESSENGER, Presentation on the background on Mercury, historical exploration of Mercury, and the MESSENGER Mission, including images and science results from the the flybys in 2008. | Reading Public Museum and Planetarium |
| Dr. Frank Morgan | 5/9/2009 | CRISM, GEOSPACE/LWS, New Horizons, RBSP, Discussed APL mission science and engineering | Maryland Science Center |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 5/9/2009 | CRISM, GEOSPACE/LWS, MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, RBSP, Frank Morgan, an APL CRISM scientist and I conducted hands-on booth activities with Science Center guests. Families participated in magnetism activities and learned about the Earth's magnetic field and the relationship with the sun as well as Earth's radiation belts. Children tried on clean room suits and learned about careers in STEM fields. A wide variety of missions were discussed as participants asked questions. Materials from a variety of APL missions were distributed. | Maryland Science Center |
| Dr. Michael Kelly (work) | 5/7/2009 | New Horizons, Meteorology, It was Career Day at Victory Elementary. I described my career at JHU/APL and some of the missions that we support. | Michael Kelly |
| Mr. anthony scarpati | 5/7/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Explained and demonstrated to students the purpose and importance of space simulation testing for space flight. | swansfield elementary school |
| Ms. Martha Kusterer | 5/5/2009 | cassini, Discussion of what a Ground Software Lead does | Cary Academy |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 5/1/2009 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Mini-RF, I presented two assemblies that covered the entire 6th grade. I then taught four 6th grade science classes. Students conducted a cratering exercise that was based on the Mini-RF Program. | Martin Meylin Middle School |
| Mrs. Rebecca Sepan | 4/30/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Spoke with two third grade classes about my work and "daily life" on the mission ops teams for New Horizons and MESSENGER during Belle Grove Elementary's Career Day. | Belle Grove Elementary School |
| Dr. James Kinnison | 4/28/2009 | New Horizons, Solar Probe, Brief description of Solar Probe science to go with their study of the Sun, followed by description of process for building, integrating, testing and launching spacecraft using New Horizons I&T/Launch pictures. | Simpson High School |
| Mr. Richard Hildebrand | 4/28/2009 | NEAR, STEREO, Career day presentation to 2 classes on engineering | Davidsonville Elementary |
| Mr. Al Chacos | 4/24/2009 | New Horizons, Solar Probe, Discussed atoms, matter, fundamental forces of nature, e=mc2, elements, space | Glenelg Country School |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 4/24/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Solar Probe, STEREO, Mini-RF, I presented two assemblies (1/2 of the school at a time) as the culminating activity of their "space week" I also did the alka-seltzer rocket assembly/launch activity in between assemblies for a 2nd grade class. | Conewago Township Elementary School |
| Mr. Eric Finnegan | 4/23/2009 | MESSENGER, Presentation to local university IEE chapter on the MESSENGER Mission to Mercury. Covered desing, development, launch and operations through first two Mercury Flybys. Brought 1/10 MESSENGER model and test sun shade for discussion and interest. | Leigh University |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 4/23/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Solar Probe, STEREO, Mini-RF, I "manned" a station during the schools station rotation day as part of their space week activites. I demonstrated "spinning objects", "orbital mechanics" and an air launched rocket. | Conewago Township Elementary School |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 4/21/2009 | NEAR, New Horizons, Solar Probe, As part of "space academy" I performed the clean room suit talk/demonstration in the K-Center. | JHU/APL |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 4/17/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Mini-RF, I gave a 30 minute presentation on recent missions. I then lead the class in an alka-seltzer rocket building and launch activity. | Sacred Heart Elementary School |
| Mrs. Rebecca Sepan | 4/14/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, As the invited speaker at the Laurel Lions Club bi-weekly meeting, I gave a Power Point presentation comparing the New Horizons and MESSENGER missions with a focus on mission operations. Discussed spacecraft design considerations, trajectory, science objectives, Deep Space Network operations. | Laurel Volunteer Fire Co. - Lions Club Meeting |
| Mr. Carl Ercol | 4/14/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, I discussed my career as a spacecraft thermal engineer with my daughters second grade class. | DAvidfsonville Elementry School |
| Dr. Kenneth Potocki | 4/7/2009 | GEOSPACE/LWS, Solar Probe, Main points: 1) Sun is variable; 2) Earth is in the atmosphere of the Sun; 3) Earth responds to the changing Sun (radiation belts, aururae), | Gerstell Academy |
| Dr. Tracy Terry | 4/7/2009 | New Horizons, ongoing research for NASA, My presentation focused on an ongoing astrobiology project we are working on for NASA. The project goal is to develop a sensor for biological molecules that can be sent to an asteroid or planet. We are using molecularly imprinted polymers to achieve this goal, so I incorporated a polymer formation experiment into the presentation. Many of their space related questions were answered with examples from the Mars rovers and New Horizons, because those are the ones I know the most about. | Lowell School |
| Dr. Helen Hart PhD | 4/1/2009 | New Horizons, Discussed Pluto and the New Horizons mission; all the 3rd grade assembled in the gym; after presentation, kids returned to class rooms to color, cut out and build the small black-and-white paper model of the spacecraft; I visited for more questions. Presentation aids: power point; tape marks on the floor to show kids where to stand for a 1 ft = 1 AU model of the solar system; 12-inch Earth globe; 2-inch styrofoam ball for Pluto, 1-inch ball for Charon; my 1:7 scale model of the spacecraft. | Graff Elementary School |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 4/1/2009 | GEOSPACE/LWS, RBSP, Age appropriate power point given about Earth's magnetic field, sun-earth connection, radiation belts, and RBSP mission. Question and answer session following presentation. Students then tried on clean room suits while reasons for wearing them, engineering and other STEM careers were discussed. Pam Napilillo from public affairs observed. | West Friendship Elementary |
| Mr. Christopher Hersman | 3/31/2009 | New Horizons, This was a field trip for the North Chevy Chase Elementary School third grade class of 100 students. The field trip included a tour of the air and space museum. During the tour we broke into smaller groups and visited the New Horizons model and discussed different aspects of the spacecraft design such as the thermal blankets, power source, communication techniques, etc. | Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum |
| Dr. Helen Hart PhD | 3/31/2009 | New Horizons, Discussed Pluto and the New Horizons mission; guided class to build a 1:4 scale model of the spacecraft. Presentation aids: power point; 12-inch Earth globe; 3-inch styrofoam ball with a face for the moon; ID of local landmark to represent the distance to the sun; ID of local towns to represent the distance to Pluto; my 1:7 scale model of the spacecraft. Model building: parts of cardboard, etc; a space blanket, gold foil tape. | Laurel Middle School |
| Dr. Helen Hart PhD | 3/30/2009 | Spacecraft orbiting Earth, spotting the ISS, Discussed and demonstrated the size and relative locations of the Earth, Moon, Sun, and the 2 main s/c orbits: geosynch and LEO. Talked about actually seeing some of these in the sky; handed out the next few day's ISS predictions from Heavens Above; explained how to read the tables, and how to figure out Azimuth from the compass points and Altitude from the tilt of your head. Luckily the sky was clear and there was a bright ISS pass due later that night, went outside to point out the track. | Old Middle School building |
| Mr. Christopher Hersman | 3/27/2009 | New Horizons, In preparation for a field trip to the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum, I presented information on the New Horizons mission the one of the third grade classes. The presentation covered spacecraft design features, launch, operations, and science results from the Jupiter flyby. | North Chevy Chase Elementary School |
| Dr. Robert Gold | 3/27/2009 | MESSENGER, Overview of MESSENGER through Mercury flyby 2 | U S Naval Academy |
| Mr. James McAdams | 3/25/2009 | MESSENGER, An overview of the MESSENGER mission was followed by display of MESSENGER website-released images from the spacecraft's second flyby of Mercury. Educational facts about Mercury were provided. A few animations were used to show aspects of the second Mercury flyby. | The Lamb of God School |
| Dr. Richard Meitzler | 3/25/2009 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, Pack meeting with careers theme. Discussed space technology and exploration with multiple groups of 3 to 5 boys for about 10 minutes per group. | Glenelg Country School |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 3/24/2009 | CRISM, Poster session about Mars Education Student Data Teams, an innovative program which engages high school students in CRISM data analysis under the guidance of CRISM team mentors. | Woodlands Waterway Marriott |
| Mr. Nick DeMatt | 3/21/2009 | NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, This was a Blue and Gold dinner event. The theme of the event was Space. The material was placed on each of the 20 tables for attendees to review. Due to an unfortunate limitation of time, my 10 minute new Horizon's presentation was removed from the agenda. | Trinity Lutheran Church |
| Dr. Susan Benecchi | 3/14/2009 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Annual event at the NASM. Booths from around the area are set up throughout the museum with interactive activities. Students and parents/leaders come around and interact with presenters. We built Near spacecraft models and discussed the Pluto mission, how old the students will be when we get to Pluto and what we hope to do there. Other activities at our table included building constellation maps, classifying the planets, cratering, telescopes, and recognizing spectra of different elements. | Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum |
| Mr. Thomas Milnes | 3/7/2009 | CRISM, MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, Maryland Engineering Challenges Elementary School Paper Airplane Challenge. Educational participation packages consisting of APL / NASA Space Mission handouts given to students and teachers to encourage them to become interested in or interest their students in Careers in Aerospace. | Baltimore Museum of Industry |
| Mr. Ed Eubanks | 3/6/2009 | Solar Probe Plus, Students are are currently designing their own thermal protection system designs to protect a simulated vehicle from re-entry heating. Betsy Congdon and myself of the APL Space Department presented our work to on the Solar Probe Plus program to develop a TPS to protect against incident solar flux at 9.5 solar radii. | Clarksville Middle School |
| Mr. Ed Eubanks | 3/5/2009 | Solar Probe+, Students are are currently designing their own thermal protection system designs to protect a simulated vehicle from re-entry heating. Betsy Congdon and myself of the APL Space Department presented our work to on the Solar Probe Plus program to develop a TPS to protect against incident solar flux at 9.5 solar radii. | Clarksville Middle School |
| Ms. Christina Hammock | 3/1/2009 | CRISM, MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Girls in Science (STEM) outreach activity | JHU/APL |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 3/1/2009 | CRISM, MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, RBSP, Girl Power: STEM Career Fair- booth style demonstrations and hands on activities designed to inspire girls to stay interested and pursue careers in STEM fields | JHU/APL Kossiakoff Center |
| Dr. Robert Gold | 2/22/2009 | MESSENGER, An overview of the MESSENGER mission and the science of Mercury including information from the first two Mercury flybys | Timbuktu Restaurant |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 2/20/2009 | RBSP, RBSP power point presentation, clean room demo and try-on, and cut-out model take away. | Baltimore Convention Center |
| Mr. Michael Buckley | 2/20/2009 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Solar Probe, Mini-RF, Took the students through the steps of designing a space mission, using New Horizons as the prime example, but weaving other missions in where possible. Left three "teacher packets" and several videos at the school. | Southampton Middle School |
| Mrs. Kimberly Cranford | 2/9/2009 | MESSENGER, STEREO, career day activity - discussed audit program at low level and the importance of learning to read and write | Tracey's Elementary School |
| Mr. Chris DeBoy | 1/30/2009 | New Horizons, 1st and 4th grade-level presentations to classes at Woodmont. Planetary science, New Horizons. | Woodmont Academy |
| Dr. Debra Buczkowski | 1/20/2009 | CRISM, I presented a discussion on Mars geology and geography to the students involved in the Mars Exploration Student Data Teams associated with the CRISM project. | telecon presentation |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 1/17/2009 | MESSENGER, Presentation on the background on Mercury, historical exploration of Mercury, and the MESSENGER Mission, including images and science results from the the flybys in 2008. | Gaston Caperton Center |
| Dr. Paul Romani | 1/12/2009 | New Horizons, What is a planet discussion and students worked on their own definition of what is a planet. Visits spanned two days, the 12th and the 13th of January 2009. | Fort River Elementary School, Amherst Regional Middle School |
| Dr. Robert Eidson | 1/5/2009 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, A "What My Daddy Does at Work" type event in which I briefly covered my aeronautical and astronautical experiences including wind tunnel testing of rockets and aircraft as well as work on several space missions. | Clemens Crossing Elementary School |
| Mr. Ray Harvey | 12/16/2008 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Discussed Scientists and Engineers working in the space business together. As part of that, an introduction to some of the Basic Laws of Physics that Scientists and Engineers have to deal with every day. Newton's Laws of Motion, Bernoulli Principle, Law of Conservation of Energy, and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion were discussed and activities were used to demonstrate the concepts. Showed some pretty pictures of what Scientists and Engineers accomplish together and shot off 2 model rockets. | School of the Incarnation |
| Mr. James Kaidy Sr. | 12/15/2008 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Solar Probe, STEREO, ILN, New Frontiers 3 - Asteroid Sample Return, Described each mission. Showed and discussed rocket launch and spacecraft systems. Showed JHU/APL career in space videos and future asteroid landing videos. | Norbel School |
| Dr. Robert Gold | 12/15/2008 | MESSENGER, Overview of MESSENGER through Mercury flyby 1 | California Academy of Sciences |
| Ms. Julie Napp | 12/8/2008 | CRISM, GEOSPACE/LWS, MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Solar Probe, STEREO, Discussed current mission status of the various projects I work on. Took questions from the students which ranged from why we send probes to whether we still send animals into space. Told them of my education and work history and talked about their career aspirations and college plans. | Choctaw County High School |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 11/13/2008 | MESSENGER, Overview of the Mariner 10 and MESSENGER missions to explore Mercury, with concentration on the two Mercury flybys that MESSENGER performed this year. | Roland Park Country School |
| Dr. Debra Buczkowski | 11/8/2008 | Mars missions, I presented a talk on geology and geologic mapping for the Young Engineers and Scientists Seminars program. The was a 1 hour lecture and 1 hour hands-on mapping session. | Historical Electronics Museum |
| Dr. Debra Buczkowski | 11/1/2008 | CRISM, I participated in an internet-televised youth science program, NASA360. The episode was about the space program and I contributed dialog on Mars science and the CRISM instrument. The episode aired in November 2008. | JHU/APL |
| Mr. Patrick Hogue | 10/20/2008 | New Horizons, New Horizons ground testing at GSFC. | Double Tree Hotel, Annapolis |
| Dr. Robert DeMajistre | 10/15/2008 | Global Warming, Overview of global warming | Benfield Elementary School |
| Mr. Max Peterson | 9/30/2008 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, This activity was held over several weeks: the first week was to design and build a Bungee-launched Rocket, the second week was to launch and evaluate the design and fabrication of the Bungee Rockets; the third week was a presentation of engineering techniques used to design, build, launch and control a spacecraft, near-earth OR planetary, such as MESSENGER, NEAR or STEREO. | Crellin, MD Elementary School |
| Ms. Simmie Berman | 9/29/2008 | New Horizons, STEREO, Overview of space and technologies used to build spacecraft. | Wetherbee School |
| Mr. Paul Napoli | 9/27/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Mercury, Presentation on the history and value of Space Exploration, women's contribution to space programs, current programs of interest, and ending with the building/launching of several model rockets. Content should meet the requirements for the Space Exploration merit badges for Boy and Girl Scouts. | Scout Skill Day 2008 |
| Mr. James McAdams | 9/17/2008 | MESSENGER, title "MESSENGER Mission to Mercury: Trajectory Design and Implementation" Status and future plans for trajectory optimization, planetary encounters, and course-correction maneuver design were discussed. | JHU/APL Gibson Library |
| Dr. Don Jennings | 9/13/2008 | New Horizons, Goddard event called "Launchfest." Public walk-through of several buildings on center where booths, displays and activities highlighted NASA missions. | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Ms. Christina Hammock | 9/11/2008 | New Horizons, RBSP, General presentation on the missions that detectors are used for | Canberra |
| Dr. David Blewett | 9/3/2008 | MESSENGER, I visited researchers associated with China's Chang'E-1 lunar orbiter. I gave a talk on MESSENGER color imaging results and geological interpretations, and also a talk on my own lunar research. Attendees included grad students, professors, and the Head of China's Lunar Exploration Program. | National Astronomical Observatories of China/Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Dr. Elsayed Talaat | 8/12/2008 | TIMED, I was interviewed about TIMED for "NASA 360" a public outreach program. Please contact Jennifer Huego (x85618)/ | JHU/APL - MP3-W181 |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 8/6/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, EPO Material on JHU/APL Missions handed out on Family Visit Day 2008. | Family Day |
| Mr. Scott Weidner | 7/28/2008 | New Horizons, Brief Description of the New Horizons Mission to Pluto and the science instruments on board, with a special emphasis on SWAP (Solar Wind Around Pluto) Instrument. | Southwest Research Institute |
| Mr. Anthony Scarpati | 7/24/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Show and Tell demostration related to Space Simulation Testing. | Space Department - Building 23 room 147 |
| Mr. Neal Bachtell | 7/16/2008 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Provided DVD for viewing of MESSENGER program, spoke of the recent flyby of MERCURY and had question and answer session. Also spoke on New Horizons and NEAR. | The Discovery Station |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 7/5/2008 | MESSENGER, Overview of exploration of Mercury, from Mariner 10 to MESSENGER, presenting the latest findings from the January flyby. Repeat of previous day's talk. | Green Bank National Radio Observatory Visitor Center |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 7/4/2008 | MESSENGER, Overview of exploration of Mercury, from Mariner 10 to MESSENGER, presenting the latest findings from the January flyby | Green Bank National Radio Observatory Vicitor Center |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 7/2/2008 | New Horizons, Presentation on the New Horizons mission to Pluto. | Denver Convention Center |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 6/13/2008 | New Horizons, Presentation on Planetary Magnetospheres to a group of Research Experience for Undergraduates attending summer program at CU, including latest results from the New Horizons flyby of Jupiter and anticipated flyby of Pluto. | Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics |
| Dr. Qian Wu | 6/12/2008 | TIMED, I gave a lecture on TIMED/TIDI science to Research Experience for Undergraduate Students (REU) at University of Colorado LASP. | REU Student lecture |
| Ms. Erin Wood | 6/12/2008 | New Horizons, The material was covered at the Colorado Space Science Teacher's Summit, a week-long teacher workshop on Solar System astronomy. The material was covered in a session on NASA mission educational materials. The material is distributed on the website: http://lasp.colorado.edu/sdc/ | Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 6/9/2008 | New Horizons, Part of teacher workshop. Talk on Exploration of the Giant Planets. Involved discussion of how to teach concepts of planetary sciences as well as latest data from missions such as New Horizons. | Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics |
| Dr. Phillip Chamberlin | 6/9/2008 | TIMED, 2008 CU-LASP/HAO/NCAR/CORA Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program in Boulder, Colorado. TIMED-SEE funded an undergraduate student, Chris Moore from the U. of Iowa, to come to CU/LASP for 8 weeks to work under TIMED SEE scientists to work with data from TIMED SEE and tasks associated with the underflight calibration rocket. Chris gained valuable data analysis and space hardware experience during his time here that will prepare him for graduate school and a future job in research. | U of Colorado/LASP |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 6/6/2008 | New Horizons, The annual Mindlin Lecture - a public lecture in the area of space physics. Talk entitled New Horizons Observes the Giant Magnetosphere of Jupiter. | University of Washington |
| Mr. Nick DeMatt | 6/5/2008 | New Horizons, I gave the boys an update on the mission since we last spoke two years ago. Since some of the kids were new to the troop, my talk included information about the spacecraft and the instruments. | Trinity Lutheran Chruch |
| Dr. Nancy Chabot | 6/4/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Presentations during career day event at school | Bodkin Elementary School |
| Dr. Mark Perry | 5/30/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Space science discussions with elementary-school students who had completed science projects. | Pointers Run Elementary School |
| Dr. Debra Buczkowski | 5/22/2008 | Mars missions, I discussed the history of Mars research and exploration, touching on Mars in popular literature, Mars geology and past and present missions to Mars. | Northfield Elementary School |
| Ms. Karen Kirby | 5/15/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Solar Probe, STEREO, TIMED, Provided overview of space exploration and several recent space missions including Dawn and New Horizons. Presented space system engineering as a career option for Grades 3-5 students at school sponsored career day. | Cold Spring Elementary School |
| Mrs. Patty Seaton | 5/15/2008 | New Horizons, Provided information on the planetarium program being developed to support the New Horizons mission, along with handout materials from the mission. Had sign-up sheet available for institutions wishing to obtain a copy of the program once complete. Nineteen institutions signed up! | Holiday Inn Schenectady, NY |
| Dr. Mark Perry | 5/13/2008 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, Cassini, Discussion with 4th-grade students on aerospace carreers, including the excitement of science and the skills, classwork and training required. | Pointers Run Elementary School |
| Mr. Carl Ercol | 5/9/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Brief overview of the MESSENGER and New Horizons spacecraft and missions | Davidsonville Elementry School |
| Mr. Jim O'Leary | 5/3/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Space Day is an annual event at the Maryland Science Center at which we celebrate all things aerospace in the Baltimore Washington area. Representatives from APL's New Horizons team attended and interacted with general public visitors, describing the missions, handing out materials and fielding questions. | Maryland Science Center |
| Mr. Charles Robinson | 4/28/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Basic introduction to NASA and the support of JHU / APL | Grace Community Church Christian School |
| Ms. Nori Laslo | 4/25/2008 | MESSENGER, Science Park High School in Newark NJ invited me to talk with their upperclassmen about MESSENGER and careers in spacecraft operations. I spoke about the mission objectives and timeline, and showed (already public) images from January's Mercury flyby. I also passed around examples (from Ted Hartka, APL) of the carbon composite structure, thermal blanketing and sunshield material. After the talk and Q&A, I spent the rest of the day talking with students interested in this kind of career. | Science Park High School |
| Ms. Helene Winters | 4/25/2008 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Mini-RF (predominantly Mini-RF), Helene Winters gave an introduction to APL, work of the Space Department, education required to do perform this type of work, Mini-RF and its goals, highlights of some other missions, major space mission subsystems. Then, Dr. Ben Bussey presented the science of Mini-RF, and work searching for meteriods in Antarctica. | Montpelier Elementary School |
| Dr. Debra Buczkowski | 4/24/2008 | CRISM, Mars missions, I discussed the history of Mars research and exploration, touching on Mars in popular literature, Mars geology and past and present missions to Mars. | JHU/APL |
| Dr. Ben Bussey | 4/23/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Talked about each planet, how scientists study them, how spacecraft are launched, etc. | Elkridge Elementary School |
| Dr. Elsayed Talaat | 4/22/2008 | GEOSPACE/LWS, TIMED, I was one of the presenters for the Space Academy at JHU/APL where I discussed TIMED and other missions. | JHU/APL - Kossiakoff Center |
| Dr. Nancy Chabot | 4/22/2008 | MESSENGER, Gave a class about being a planetary scientist and my job. | Patapsco Middle School |
| Dr. Martin Mlynczak | 4/20/2008 | TIMED, I participated in the "Ask A Scientist" panel (two separate sessions) at the EarthFest activity at Christopher Newport University. This was a panel discussion and question and answer session with the general public. | Christopher Newport University |
| Mrs. Rebecca Sepan | 4/19/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Power Point presentation primarily about the New Horizons mission - design, pre-launch testing, mission phases, the Deep Space Network, with focus on mission operations. Devoted a few slides to the MESSENGER Mercury 1 flyby and gave an overview of the MESSENGER mission. Presentation was followed by an extensive Q&A period - lots of very good technical questions from an audience that primarily consisted of AACC faculty & astronomy club members but also included college students and general pubic. | Anne Arundel Community College |
| Dr. Nancy Chabot | 4/19/2008 | MESSENGER, Panel member/presenter at UAB career weekend workshop. | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Mr. James McAdams | 4/18/2008 | MESSENGER, Presentation "MESSENGER and the First Encounters of Mercury in 33 Years" - mission overview, spacecraft description, science payload, science goals, mission design, trajectory profiles, Mariner 10 Mercury flybys, MESSENGER Mercury flybys, MLA, Magnetometer, MDIS images from first MESSENGER flyby of Mercury, plans for future Mercury encounters | Towson University - Smith Hall |
| Mr. Michael Paul | 4/18/2008 | MESSENGER, I gave a talk to Vince Pisacane's Senior Design class on the critical design trades that enable the MESSENGER mission. I hope to go back next year and do the same talk for his next class. | United States Naval Academy |
| Ms. Nori Laslo | 4/17/2008 | MESSENGER, The Aerospace and Communications chapters of the New Jersey IEEE organization sponsored this public talk at the Eatontown Public Library. I spoke about MESSENGER's mission objectives and timeline, about the Mercury Dual Imaging System, and showed some (already public) images from the Mercury flyby in January. I also passed around examples (from Ted Hartka, APL) of the carbon composite structure, thermal blanketing and sunshield materials. The talk ended with audience Q&A. | Eatontown Public Library |
| Dr. Andrew Lennon | 4/16/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Kindergarten: Inspired by the New Horizons mission to Pluto, I used the solar system to reinforce math concepts of ordinal numbers measurement, and scale. Discussion centered on "scale" model of solar system made using students as planets at a scale of 1 ft = 1 AU. Second Grade: Inspired by New Horizons and MESSENGER missions, used math concepts of measurement, relative units, scale, and fractions to determine the relative gravity on Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto. | Manor Woods Elementary School |
| Mr. John Goldsten | 4/11/2008 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Major parts of a satellite and a comparison of the NEAR, MESSENGER, and New Horizons spacecraft designs. Also talked abouts science instruments and what they measure and the role of an engineer versus a scientist. | The Sheridan School |
| Dr. Robert Gold | 3/26/2008 | MESSENGER, An overview of MESSENGER science, technology, and results of the M1 flyby. Since the audience were primarily ham radio operators, paid particular attention to the radio communications system. | Howard County Gateway Building |
| Mr. Anthony Scarpati J | 3/25/2008 | STEREO, DVD of STEREO mission and show and tell with space environment demos. Two groups of 50 back to back. | swansfield Elementary School |
| Dr. Robert Gold | 3/25/2008 | MESSENGER, Overview of MESSENGER through Mercury 1 flyby | Howard County Gateway Bldg |
| Dr. Robert DeMajistre | 3/17/2008 | MESSENGER, Overview of Mercury and MESSENGER | Benfield Elem. (AA county) |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 3/12/2008 | MESSENGER, Presentation on the MESSENGER Mission and history of Mercury exploration to the Westminster Astronomical Society | Bear Branch Nature Preserve |
| Mr. Jeremiah Finnigan | 3/8/2008 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, RBSP, This was a presentation of a technical paper on the topic of software reuse, that discussed software techniques used on the MESSENGER, New Horizons, CRISM, and that might be reused in the future on the RBSP mission. The title of the paper was: "A Forward-Looking Software Resue Strategy" | 2008 IEEE Aerospace Conference |
| Mr. Thomas Milnes | 3/7/2008 | New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Provided prizes for Maryland Engineering Challenges Elementary School Paper Airplane Challenge Participants. | Baltimore Museum of Industry |
| Dr. Phillip Chamberlin | 2/29/2008 | TIMED, I was invited to teach a full day (5 periods) of science classes at Manhattan Middle School. I gave an overview lecture of the Sun, including its variations from the solar cycle to solar flares. I also showed the latest video of the TIMED SEE underflight rocket launch (36.233) as well as showed them the retired TIMED SEE EGS prototype instrument. | Manhattan Middle School |
| Dr. Randy Gladstone | 2/28/2008 | New Horizons, Overview of NH mission, results obtained at Jupiter, and plans for the Pluto flyby | AMPL, Australian National University |
| Dr. Michael Kelly | 2/23/2008 | New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Girl Scout Mall Day | Manassas Mall |
| Mr. Neal Bachtell | 2/23/2008 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Presented an updated DVD of Messenger and discussion on I&T, launch, and fly-by. Also had discussions on New Horizons and NEAR. | The Discovery Station |
| Mr. Michael Buckley | 2/19/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Discussion and presentation on how scientists and engineers send robots into space, using the MESSENGER mission as the example. | Fountain Green Elementary School |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 2/10/2008 | CRISM, GEOSPACE/LWS, MESSENGER, New Horizons, Solar Probe, STEREO, TIMED, Girls STEM career expo. Designed to keep girls interested in pursuing a career in a STEM field. | Howard County Room, JHU/APL |
| Dr. Uday Shankar | 2/8/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Talked to 5th graders about Messenger, Stereo, and New Horizons spacecraft--their mission, the science data they were to collect, and how that influences the spacecraft design. | Sandy Spring Friends School |
| Mr. James McAdams | 2/6/2008 | MESSENGER, title of presentation "The First Flyby of Mercury in 33 Years" provided Mission Design focus background on MESSENGER , and the plans and preliminary results of the January 14, 2008 flyby of Mercury. Public access (website posted) images and animations of Mercury were shown. | The Lamb of God School |
| Dr. JUAN CARLOS ARIAS CAÑÓN | 2/2/2008 | CRISM, NEAR, New Horizons, Solar Probe, STEREO, TIMED, Soho, Sun Trek, ceres scool, ASTRONOMY GROUP AT THE SCHOOL ESCLAVAS DEL SAGRADO CORAZÓN DE JESÚS, FOR STUDIES OF THE SOLAR ACTIVITY AND ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE | Colegio Esclavas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús |
| Dr. JUAN CARLOS ARIAS CAÑÓN | 2/2/2008 | Solar Probe, STEREO, TIMED, The aplication of comunicatoin and information technologies at study of astronomy. | Astronomy Group, SOHO, Rocks Around The World, CERS S'COOL |
| Mr. Mike Buckley | 1/31/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Talk covered how (and why) APL puts together space missions, using New Horizons and MESSENGER as examples. | Trinity Lutheran School |
| Mr. DEANE SIBOL | 1/30/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Focus on MESSENGER spacecraft and mission, with emphasis on first flyby operations and results. Also gave update on STEREO and New Horizons. | Woodmont Academy |
| Ms. Heba Koch | 1/26/2008 | General ideas about living in outerspace, The event was a girl's scouts event. It was the Fulton Cluster Thinking Day. About 200 Brownies, Girlscouts, and Juniors attended. The event was built around living in outerspace. | Cedar Lane School |
| Mr. Jim Stratton | 1/25/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, General presentation on space and our Solar System to a class of young students. Discussion focused on the sun and planets, and our missions MESSENGER and New Horizons. | school |
| Dr. Andrew Newman | 1/25/2008 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Preschoolers had the chance to be a spacecraft or a planet and act out the space missions. | Columbia Academy Preschool |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 1/20/2008 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, From the Sun to Pluto overview of missions and objectives. Suggestions for physics teachers to use in their classrooms. | Baltimore Marriott Waterfront |
| Ms. Dawn Turney | 1/20/2008 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, TIMED, Staffed an information booth at the American Association of Physics Teachers Annual meeting. Discussed missions and program ideas with physics teachers, distributed materials, promoted APL and discussed mission related educational opportuntities. Other presenters in attendance were Kerri Beisser and Marc Clayton. | Marriott Waterfront Hotel |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 1/19/2008 | MESSENGER, An overview of Mercury, the Mariner 10 mission, the MESSENGER mission, and the latest, greatest results from the first Mercury flyby of MESSENGER | Gaston Capertown Center |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 12/4/2007 | New Horizons, New Horizons observations of the Magnetosphere of Jupiter. LASP seminar | Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 11/15/2007 | New Horizons, Presented talk on "50 years of Solar System Exploration: From Apollo at the Moon to New Horizons at Pluto" to audience of donors to the ARCS (Achievements & Rewards for College Scientists) foundation. | Ritz Carlton Hotel |
| Mr. Francisco Salas | 11/10/2007 | TIMED, Space Storm is a planetarium show about the Sun-Earth connection and related science. The show has been given 14 times this fiscal year to an average audience number of 23 people. The show is ongoing and has been mass distributed to other planetariums around the country. | Fiske Planetarium |
| Ms. Jennifer Fischer | 11/8/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Speaking at my son's school for career day | Atholton Elementary School |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 11/6/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Spoke to the Belle Grove Elem School's Aviation Club about the MESSENGER and New Horizons missions. | Belle Grove Elementary School |
| Ms. Teresa Betenbaugh | 10/27/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, I spoke very briefly about NH & Messenger, but primary focus was STEREO. I showed the STEREO 4 part DVD. I brought a wooden model of STEREO and explained the parts of a spacecraft. I showed the STEREO rocket poster. I had some structural and thermal materials to pass around. I demonstrated solar power w/solar car, fountain, music box. | Stoneleigh Elementary School |
| Mr. Eric Finnegan | 10/24/2007 | MESSENGER, Discussed with students the planet Mercury, the MESSENGER mission and the challenges of Human Space Exploration. | St. John's Parish Day School |
| Dr. Cathy Olkin | 10/17/2007 | New Horizons, Discussion of the New Horizons mission, what we know about Pluto and what we learned at Jupiter. | Niwot Elementary School |
| Mr. Robert Holder III | 10/17/2007 | GEOSPACE/LWS, New Horizons, STEREO, discussion of different types of engineers; how computers help various fields (eg space, biology); discussion of future advances in technology (eg virtual worlds, combining humans and computers); demonstration of how older vs newer search engines work; distinction between using computers and humans natural abilities and how software engineers can work to improve both. | Landsdowne Elem. Sch. |
| Ms. Carolyn Slivinski | 10/17/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Aviation Education Expo consists of guest speakers, exhibits, booth, demonstrations, static displays, and presentations. Students are invited from 45 high schools and colleges. APL materials were distributed from the Baltimore AIAA section booth at the event. | Frederick Municipal Airport |
| Mr. Juan Cifuentes | 10/12/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, I acted as an interperter for Dr. Ralph McNut who spoke of his background and the recent spacecraft operations/science events on MESSENGER and New Horizons. This was a Q/A session with kids at the Planeterium in Bogota, Colombia (South America) and the video-telecon link was supported by APL A/V. | Video-telecon between APL & Planeterium in Bogota, Colombia |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 10/4/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, General presentation overview of the MESSENGER and New Horizons missions, but in more detail than the previous day's exhibit/presentation (more time available) | Washington-Irving Middle School |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 10/3/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Gave multiple brief (15-20 min) overview presentation of the MESSENGER and New Horizons missions to students as they rotated through from other demo tables. | (unknown) |
| Ms. Simmie Berman | 9/21/2007 | New Horizons, STEREO, Overview of spacecraft design, space environment, etc. Talked about New Horizons and STEREO with lots of hands on activities and hardware to look at. | Wetherbee School |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 8/21/2007 | New Horizons, Panel discussion of planetary protection | Gates Planetarium, Denver |
| Dr. Henry Throop | 8/14/2007 | New Horizons, Spent full day with production team from History Channel. Interviewed for 'The Universe' series, episode 'The Outer Planets.' Discussed Pluto and New Horizons. Program distributed nationally via cable on 14-Aug-2007. | TV |
| Mr. Max Mutchler | 8/1/2007 | New Horizons, I conducted one of many sessions for blind students attending the "Youth Slam" event hosted by the National Federation for the Blind. The students assembled plastic Hubble models while we discussed how the telescope works. I discussed recent Hubble solar system observations (Pluto, Ceres, Vesta, and Jupiter), and the Dawn and New Horizons missions. The students then debated and voted on the definition of a planet, concluding that we should wait for more data and discoveries from these missions. | Johns Hopkins University |
| Dr. Bonnie Buratti | 7/30/2007 | New Horizons, A partnership between JPL and this Explorer School has been established, and activities such as teacher training, in-class visits, and hands-on activites will take place over the 2007-2008 school year. This was an organizing meeting. The main projects that will form te core of this activity are New Horizons, Cassini, and the Moon Multispectral Mapper. | Broughal Middel School (NASA Explorer School ) |
| Dr. John Spencer | 7/30/2007 | New Horizons, Talk about Pluto and New Horizons to a science teacher workshop | North Arvada Middle School |
| Dr. Jeffrey Moore | 7/28/2007 | New Horizons, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is on its way to Pluto, scheduled to arrive in 2015. However, it recently interrupted its journey by taking a side trip to visit the Jupiter system. Dr. Jeffrey Moore shares with us these new views. include the closest look yet at the Earth-sized “Little Red Spot” storm churning materials through Jupiter’scloud tops; detailed images of small satellites herding dust and boulders through Jupiter’s faint rings; and of volcanic | Eastbay Astonomical Society At Chabot |
| Dr. Jeffrey Moore | 7/24/2007 | New Horizons, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is on its way to Pluto, scheduled to arrive in 2015. However, it recently interrupted its journey by taking a side trip to visit the Jupiter system. Dr. Jeffrey Moore shares with us these new views . include the closest look yet at the Earth-sized “Little Red Spot” storm churning materials through Jupiter’scloud tops; detailed images of small satellites herding dust and boulders through Jupiter’s faint rings; and of volcanic | Mount Diablo Astronomical Society |
| Dr. Helen Hart | 7/14/2007 | New Horizons, An overview of the New Horizons mission with science "pretty pictures" from the Jupiter flyby. My talk was 3rd in that day's Science Track at the Shore Leave 29 science fiction convention (http://www.shore-leave.com/) I followed an excellent talk about the Hayabusa sample return mission to asteroid Itokawa. I brought 50 copies of the NH Fact Sheet, 50 NH stickers, and 50 copies of a for-further-reading list which I compiled. | Marriott's Hunt Valley Inn |
| Mr. Stewart Bushman | 7/11/2007 | New Horizons, Presentation of AIAA Paper 2007-5581, "In-Space Performance of the New Horizons Propulsion System." at the 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit | Cincinnati Duke Energy Convention Center |
| Dr. Mark Showalter | 7/9/2007 | New Horizons, Overview of recent results from NASA missions to outer planets, including New Horizons. | SETI Institute |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 7/7/2007 | MESSENGER, An in-depth presentation on the MESSENGER mission | Green Bank National Radio Astronomical Observatory |
| Mr. Mark Kochte | 7/6/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, High level overview of the MESSENGER and New Horizons missions | Green Bank National Radio Astronomical Observatory |
| Mr. Max Mutchler | 6/27/2007 | New Horizons, Attended the summer intern program, where Richard Shope of JPL was teaching about ice in the Solar System. I discussed Hubble observations of Pluto, the New Horizons mission, and the definition of a planet. | National Great Blacks in Wax Museum |
| Mr. Andrew Poppe | 6/26/2007 | New Horizons, Presented to the Colo. Springs Astronomical Society on the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter onboard the New Horizons mission. Lecture included an overview of dust science, a history of the EPO nature of SDC and initial performance and data from SDC. | Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Building |
| Mr. Neal Bachtell | 6/9/2007 | CRISM, MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Solar Probe, STEREO, TIMED, Space Shuttle to Space Station, Gave updates on all active missions built by APL. STEREO, New Horizons, TIMED, CRISM, MESSENGER. Group comprised of general public. Opened the floor for general discussion, question and answer on building and flying a mission. Made a presentation on contamination control and demonstrated cleanroom gowning and why, involving a member of the audience. Also spoke on the thermal control systems of different satellites, and why they differ by destination. Answered questions on the Shuttle. | The Discovery Station |
| Mr. Mike Buckley | 6/8/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Updated fourth grade students on the progress of New Horizons; showed 3-D images from STEREO; used both missions to reiterate the work and creativity that go into creating a robotic space mission. | Fountain Green Elementary School |
| Mrs. Jean Trusedell | 6/4/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, This is an enrichment camp for students who are of limited financial resouces. The students will be learning about science and math and how they might be a part of the next generation of Scientists. | Lynwood Elementary School |
| Dr. Mark Perry | 6/3/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Keynote speech for award cerimony honoring 7th and 8th graders who qualified for the Center for Talented Youth. Discussed future careers and described APL missions as examples of exciting science and engineering. | Shriver Hall, Homewood Campus, JHU |
| Mr. Michael Buckley | 5/29/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, TIMED, Presentation to 5th grade students on how a robotic space mission comes together, using the New Horizons mission as the example. | Fountain Green Elementary School |
| Ms. Simmie Berman | 5/29/2007 | New Horizons, A brief overview of satellites and space; how they are made, testing, space environment, etc. I had lots of samples and handouts for the students to look at whic definitely kept them engaged. | Lawrence Elementry School |
| Mr. Max Mutchler | 5/22/2007 | New Horizons, Talk about Hubble observations of Pluto, Ceres, and Vesta, missions to visit them (Dawn and New Horizons), and the planet definition debate. For the STScI "Youth for Astronomy and Engineering" program. | Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Mr. Neal Bachtell | 5/19/2007 | Cleanroom garment presentation, Spoke about why we wear clean room suits to protect the spacecraft from becoming contaminated. Demonstrated dressing in a clean room suit and two members of the audience dressed up too. Discussed why it is so critical to protect the spacecraft. Talked about how humans generate a large amount of skin cells that can contaminate the S/C. Talked about the different types of contamination. Had a question and answer session after each presentation. This was all for the "Moon Day" activity. | Washington County Free Library |
| Mr. Gabe Rogers | 5/18/2007 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Provided a talk to 2nd graders about space in general and JHU/APL NASA missions specifically. | Maryland City Elementary School |
| Dr. William McKinnon | 5/18/2007 | New Horizons, Title: New Horizons at Jupiter and its Satellites | McDonnell Hall |
| Mr. Tim Collins | 5/17/2007 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Advanced Science Course...smart kids...discussed NASA and the missions...deep dive on "follow the water" as we move around the solar system...showed powerpoint slides, videos, used the internet, gave them stickers, books, posters...it ROCKED! | Pallotti High School |
| Dr. Mark Perry | 5/17/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Part of an in-house field trip, where 6 engineers and scientists came to the school to talk to students about their jobs. I gave two 40-minute talks to separate groups of 25 students. These were students who had participated in the school's Science Expo. I used models of MESSENGER and NH to discuss how the spacecraft were designed and built. | Pointers Run Elementary School |
| Mr. Mike Staring | 5/15/2007 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, School First M.I. Last Sol C. Johnson H.S. Lori L Derf Orono M.S. Mr Richard Glueck Choctawhatchee H.S. Ricardo V. Soria Oil City Sr. H.S. Tim S Spuck Konawaena H.S. Nancy C. Tashima Key Peninsula M.S. Kareen Borders Kearsley H.S. Russ L Billings | Orbital Sciences - Dulles Campus |
| Mrs. Shaneen Braswell | 5/12/2007 | New Horizons, The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum’s mission is to inspire people to discover the wonder of science, math and technology. Our group has fabricated an interactive children’s solar system exhibit that consists of a magnetized solar system model that will allow users to “feel” the gravitational pull and explore concept of comparative planetology. This exhibit aims to articulate the physical, cognitive and affective aspects of learning. | Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 5/7/2007 | STEREO, STEREO, assembly, testing, launch and science. How it all comes together to put a working spacecraft into space. | Hammond High School |
| Mrs. Jean Trusedell | 5/4/2007 | New Horizons, Students will be learning about the Space Program and the implications of getting a good education in Math and Science in a personal way. Students will be working to master the Power Standards in Math and Science which will prepare them to start the next level of their education. | Lynwood Elementary School |
| Mr. Carl Ercol | 4/19/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Discussed with the childeren aspects of my carrer as a spacecraft thermal engineer and highlighted the discussion with examples involving the MESSENGER and New Horizons spacecrat and mission operations. | Davidsonville Elementry School |
| Dr. Thomas Strikwerda | 4/19/2007 | New Horizons, Roger B. Chaffee Scholarship Fund - annual scholarship award presentation and dinner. I was the dinner speaker and talked for about 30 minutes and followed by Q&A. | Boulder Creek Golf Club Restaurant |
| Dr. Mark Showalter | 4/19/2007 | New Horizons, Overview of the latest results on NASA's planetary missions, including New Horizons. | Google, Inc. |
| Dr. Thomas Strikwerda | 4/18/2007 | New Horizons, Presented a PowerPoint overview of New Horizons mission. Q&A afterwards. Presentation materials derived from combination of several talks by Dr. Stern and Glen Fountain. | Public Museum of Grand Rapids |
| Dr. Mark Perry | 4/18/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Described NH launch and early mission. Showed launch video. Described MESSENGER mission. Q&A on planetary science, solar system, rockets, and spacecraft. | St. Alphonsus Rodriquez Church |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 4/18/2007 | New Horizons, Seminar on the Magnetosphere of Jupiter, including NH observations. | University of Minnesota |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 4/17/2007 | New Horizons, Presentation on the New Horizons Student Dust Counter to the Society of Physics Students of Augsberg College | Augsberg College |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 4/16/2007 | New Horizons, Public talk on Magnetosphere of Jupiter - including NH observations | Augsberg College |
| Mr. Carl Herrmann | 4/14/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, The talk is a brief description of the MESSENGER, New Horizons, and STEREO missions. Launch pictures, descriptions of the satellites, orbits, acquired data and future plans are shown. | Pennsylvania State University, University Park |
| Mr. John Goldsten | 4/12/2007 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, Used spacecraft models to give an overview and comparison the NEAR, MESSENGER, and New Horizons missions. Discussed solar panels, radio antennas, batteries, science instruments, thermal blanketing, etc. | Sheridan School |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 4/11/2007 | New Horizons, Lecture on the Magnetosphere of Jupiter, including New Horizons observations | NCAR |
| Dr. Mark Showalter | 4/11/2007 | New Horizons, Overview of the latest results on NASA's planetary missions, including New Horizons. | Sun Microsystems |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 4/9/2007 | New Horizons, Science seminar on Magnetosphere of Jupiter, including NH observations | Rice University |
| Mr. Carl Engelbrecht | 4/6/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, I first addressed the entire middle school for 1.5 hours with a lecture and some Q&A. This was followed by a 1.5 hour Q&A session with just the 8th grade, and then another 1.5 hour Q&A session with the 7th grade GT science class. Students prepared for the lecture by visiting the APL and NASA websites. | Shanghai American School, Pu-Xi Campus |
| Mr. Carl Engelbrecht | 4/4/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, I spoke in three sessions, each 1.5 hours long. The first session was with the 2nd grade, and the other two sessions were with mixed 9-12th graders. For the second grade, I spoke for about 20 minutes, and the rest was Q&A. For the high schoolers, I spoke about 1/2 hour in each session, and the rest was Q&A. The 2nd graders had just completed a unit on the solar system, so they had lots of questions. The high schoolers had recently visited the APL and NASA websites to prepare for the talk. | Shanghai American School, Pu-Dong Campus |
| Mr. Carl Engelbrecht | 4/2/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, I was scheduled for 9 different sessions, 45 minutes per session. Each session had a different grade level, though high school (grades 9 - 12) were combined into one session. Typically I spoke for about 20 minutes and took Q&A about the solar system and science in general for the rest of the time. Students visited the APL and NASA websites and viewed the DVDs prior to attending. | The International School of Beijing |
| Ms. Margaret Strong | 4/2/2007 | general science, Our Oncology Community Science Day - A local elementary school (General Wolfe Elementary) brought 4th and 5th grade students for a morning of hands-on workshops about science. The afternoon consisted of 2 half hour presentations. Goodie bags with science related materials were handed out to each student when leaving. | Cancer Research Building |
| Ms. Heather Weir | 3/31/2007 | New Horizons, IPY/ICE: Ice Explorations for International Polar Year Educators explore the properties of ice and investigate how scientists find evidence of past climate in ice cores through a series of activities. | America's Center |
| Dr. Noam Izenberg R | 3/30/2007 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, Mars lander missions, This was my son's "VIP" day for his 7th birthday. Parents come to tell about what they do. I gave a little solar system overview and talked about studying the Sun and planets, and sending spacecraft to different planets and bodies to be our eyes, and sometimes our hands. We talked a lot about the status of Pluto, and did a little exploration/planetary geology "experment" using Hershey's Kisses as rock samples. | Krieger Schechter Day School |
| Ms. Margaret Strong | 3/29/2007 | general science, Our Basic Sciences Community Science Day - A local elementary school (Harford Heights Elementary) brought 4th and 5th grade students for a morning of hands-on workshops about science. The afternoon consisted of 2 half hour presentations. Goodie bags with science related materials were handed out to each student when leaving. | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Basic Science Complex |
| Ms. Alice Bowman | 3/29/2007 | New Horizons, Presentation by the Mission Operations Manager (Alice Bowman) & the Science Operations Jupiter Lead (Debi Rose) entitiled "Prelude to Pluto, Orchestrating New Horizons Jupiter Flyby" In February of 2007 the New Horizons spacecraft received a gravity assist from Jupiter, passing within 2.3 million km of the giant planet, on its way to Pluto. The science instruments were used to observe the planet and its satellites in preparation for observing the Pluto system. Integrating and implementing observations of multiple target bodies by multiple science instruments in the short time available during a planetary flyby is a complex and difficult task. Come hear how the New Horizons team met this challenge at Jupiter and see some results of their efforts. | JHU/APL Parson's Auditorium |
| Mrs. Tanya Shank | 3/29/2007 | New Horizons, Lead teacher workshop using the New Horizons materials. Teachers were engaged with hands-on activities and demonstration. Judith Walker co-taught this workshop. | University of North Carolina Charlotte |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 3/29/2007 | New Horizons, I gave the "Spring Equinox" lecture at Rowan University. | Rowan University |
| Ms. Taunya Sweet | 3/23/2007 | New Horizons, We watched the shortened version of Passport to Pluto to introduce the educators to the New Horizons mission. We then participated in the "What is a Planet?" activity. At the end, we had a question and answer session about New Horizons and implementing it in the classroom. | Stetson University |
| Dr. robert demajistre | 3/23/2007 | New Horizons, STEREO, Talk about the sun, the heliosphere and STEREO measurements. | Benfield Elementry School |
| Mr. Deane Sibol | 3/20/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, "Career presentation" of my job in space - the building, testing and operation of spacecraft, including TIMED, MESSENGER, STEREO, and New Horizons. | Woodmont Academy |
| Ms. Tady Dina | 3/17/2007 | New Horizons, It was a 'women in science' day so experiments were performed and then the science women volunteers (from different companies) gave talks about what they do and their projects. I spoke about New Horizons (I did thermal testing on NH). | Peterson Center (for Scouting) |
| Dr. Cathy Olkin | 3/16/2007 | New Horizons, Presented an overview of the New Horizons mission and some new Jupiter results at a lunch time talk at NOAO. | NOAO |
| Mr. Al Chacos | 3/15/2007 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Discussion of distances, sizes and temperatures in space. Showed models of NH and MESSENGER spacecraft and discussed. | Glenelg Country School |
| Mr. Max Mutchler | 3/10/2007 | New Horizons, Via webcam from Baltimore, I gave a talk to students, teachers, and parents assembled at Adler Planetarium as part of the Yerkes Astrophysics Academy for Young Scientists (YAAYS). I talked about Hubble observations of Jupiter in support of the New Horizons flyby. | Adler Planetarium |
| Ms. Taunya Sweet | 3/7/2007 | New Horizons, We did a brief introduction to New Horizons, what it is and information about the Jupiter gravity assist. We viewed the pod casts and explored the New Horizons website. Since all of the educators were lower elementary, we started out with “Earth Matters” and applied the classification principles to a modified version of “What is a Planet?”. We did not do the debate portion of the planet activity, but used SMART Board technology for the first part – the sorting of the Solar System objects. | U.S. Space & Rocket Center |
| Mr. Alan Mick | 3/3/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Judged science fair. Each participant I spoke with received information about space science and engineering and a mission memento. | Annapolis High School |
| Mr. Glen Fountain | 3/3/2007 | New Horizons, Two talks were given at the Cosmosphere. The first talk was to a goup of adults that were taking a multi-day course. These individuals were drawn from around the country (New York, New Jersy, the Carolinas, as well as Kansas). The second, larger, group was a general audience that included a scout troop from Oklahoma as well as young people and adults from the local Kansas area. | Kansas Cosmosphere |
| Dr. John Spencer | 3/1/2007 | New Horizons, Public talk describing results from the Jupiter encounter | APL |
| Mr. Ben Ballard | 2/28/2007 | New Horizons, I gave the class a description of Pluto, its position in the solar system, the New Horizons mission, and the Jupiter flyby which occurred that morning. I answered questions from the class and teacher throughout the talk. Marian Titerence assisted me in providing her knowledge and enthusiasm, as well as being a female role model for the students in the all girl school. | Bryn Mawr School |
| Mr. Glen Baer | 2/28/2007 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, TIe in of history of the school to the space program from the 60s to today. | Prettyboy Elementary School |
| Dr. Gary Heiligman | 2/27/2007 | STEREO, Described STEREO mission with Powerpoint presentation. Presented early science results from STEREO mission. Described activities involved in building a spacecraft. Dressed 2 students in cleanroom suits. | Beth Tfiloh Middle School |
| Dr. Gary Heiligman | 2/26/2007 | STEREO, Viewed STEREO DVD. Described STEREO mission via PowerPoint presentation. Presented early results of STEREO science. Described activities involved in building a spacecraft. Dressed 2 students in cleanroom suits. | Kennedy-Krieger Institute |
| Ms. Jeanie McGowan | 2/17/2007 | New Horizons, Public was invited to a Planet Head Day Pool Party celebration of New Horizons Jupiter Fly-by and of technology advances in science/medicine. Volunteer barber shaved heads. Swim caps for a charitable donation were available so everyone could get painted like a planet or a Jupiter moon. Refreshments (drinks, cookies, & 12 donated PizzaHut pizzas). New Horizons tabletop display with available educ. mtls. Local astronomy club, cancer support group, and geo-eclogy displays. Swim session, door prizes | Gentile Hall UMaine Presque Isle |
| Dr. Richard Binzel | 2/16/2007 | New Horizons, Science Fiction Writers Convention | Boston Convention Center |
| Ms. Taunya Sweet | 2/13/2007 | New Horizons, We had four educators attend our February 13th workshop. We did a brief introduction to New Horizons, what it is and information about the Jupiter gravity assist. We viewed the pod casts and explored the New Horizons website. We then did shortened versions of many of the activities that were discussed at the January workshop. | U.S. Space & Rocket Center |
| Ms. kerri beisser | 2/13/2007 | CRISM, MESDT beta program - Schools participating were from: Kickapoo High School (Springfield, Missouri), Livonia Central School (Livonia, NY), Medgar Evers College (Brooklyn, NY),Village Academy High School (Pomona, CA), Klein High School (Astronomy Club—Klein, TX), Durham Academy (Durham, NC). Program MESDT manager –Brian Grisby from ASU, participating CRISM team members, PI Scott Murchie and Frank Seelos. | distance learning |
| Dr. Randy Gladstone | 2/9/2007 | New Horizons, Overview of New Horizons flyby of Jupiter and the science observations that are planned. | Christ Lutheran Church |
| Mr. Max Mutchler | 2/6/2007 | New Horizons, Talk during the school's morning "Collection" about Hubble observations of Ceres and Pluto, including the Dawn and New Horizons mission, and the planet definition debate. Also a discussion in a science classroom after the talk. | Friends School |
| Dr. ANDREW CHENG | 2/4/2007 | New Horizons, Debate on whether Pluto is a planet; moderated by Owen Gingerich, with myself, Kelly Beatty (Sky and Telescope) and Brian Marsden as panelists among others. | Clay Center Observatory |
| Mr. Max Mutchler | 1/29/2007 | New Horizons, Talk about Hubble observations of Ceres and Pluto, including missions to visit them (Dawn and New Horizons), for the STScI "Youth for Astronomy and Engineering" program. | Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Mr. Andrew Poppe | 1/14/2007 | New Horizons, New Horizons: Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, overview of dusty plasma science, description of VSDC mission and science derived from VSDC | U.S. Space & Rocket Center |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 1/13/2007 | New Horizons, Teacher workshop | Space Camp, Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Mrs. Tanya Shank | 1/10/2007 | New Horizons, I conducted a teacher workshop demonstrating the hands-on application of the New Horizon Labs. Teachers were also shown how the materials cover the NC Standard Course of Study. | Martin Luther King Middle School |
| Mrs. Tanya Shanj | 12/18/2006 | New Horizons, I shared with the principals a science newsletter concerning the fly-bys of New Horizons and the pictures of Saturn taken during the fly-by. | Professional Development Center |
| Dr. Michael Dennis | 12/13/2006 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, Scout meeting revolved around two activities: 1. Constructing the paper model of the NEAR spacecraft 2. Discussing various space missions (man-made satellites) and natural satellites (particularly the results about them from various missions.) | Cub Scout den meeting |
| Dr. Robert DeMajistre | 12/1/2006 | STEREO, Overview of space weather, starting with early observations, ending with STEREO. | Benfield Elementary School |
| Mrs. CYNTHIA KEELING | 11/28/2006 | New Horizons, THE PRESENTATION WAS GIVEN TO THE STAFF | GORE ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE |
| Mr. Kevin Balon | 11/20/2006 | STEREO, Class lecture material for college junior-level Aerospace Engineering class on Flight Software Systems - ENAE380 Flight Software Systems. Presentation was an overview of the STEREO command and data handling flight software system and the APL's Space Department's software development process and lifecycle. | Univ. of Maryland - Dept. of Aerospace Engineering |
| Dr. Nancy Chabot | 11/15/2006 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, Spoke about my job as a planetary scientist for the annual career day at Winters Mill High School. Gave the same presentation 3 times, followed by questions from the students. Highlighted the missions of MESSENGER and New Horizons and the CRISM instrument. | Winters Mill High School |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 11/15/2006 | New Horizons, Boulder Cafe Scientifique | Redfish |
| Dr. Robert DeMajistre | 11/13/2006 | New Horizons, STEREO, General information about STEREO and New Horizons with an emphasis on "Going Places" (Spacecraft, Rockets, Trucks, Cranes) and "the Sun" to fit in with teacher requests. | Benfield Elementary School |
| Dr. Jon Vandegriff | 11/10/2006 | STEREO, ACE, Presentation titled "What is Space Weather," which includes interactive things for the kids to do | Linthicum Elementary School |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 11/9/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Co-Presenting with Debbie Evans (SSA) on using NASA resources in the classroom. Specifically covering MESSENGER and New Horizons. | Tulsa Convention Center |
| Mr. Ed Schaefer | 11/9/2006 | New Horizons, Paper will be presented titled "Extending the Qualification Limits of the General Purpose Heat Source-RadioIsotope Thermoelectric Generator for the New Horizons Mission". | Doubletree Hotel Annapolis |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 11/8/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Co-Presenting with Debbie Evans (SSA) on using NASA resources in the classroom. Specifically covering MESSENGER and New Horizons. | Tulsa Convention Center |
| Mrs. Tanya Shank | 11/7/2006 | New Horizons, I presented the New Horizon Mission activities primarily to middle school teachers at the Southwest Education Alliance. The activities were presented as inquiry based hands-on activities linked to the NC Standard Course of Study. The teachers had to figure out how to model “Spin and Orbit”. They also “Discovered Planet X”. They investigated extremophiles with yeast. The impact craters were a crashing success. Judy Walker UNCC Resource Librarian, NASA Educator provided the group with resources. | Charlotte Convention Center |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 10/28/2006 | New Horizons, I participated in an event called "Lunch with a Scientist", which matches science writers/communicators with a scientist. I told the people at my table about the New Horizons mission. We also discussed the issue of "what is a planet" and the recent IAU resolution that removed Pluto from the list of planets. | Tremont Hotel |
| Dr. S. Edward Hawkins III | 10/25/2006 | MESSENGER, STEREO, Discussed physics of spacecraft control and central forces. Demonstrated centripetal acceleration using a mass and a string. Discussed Newton's laws and principle of Action and Reaction. Allowed scouts to experience this using a "sit and spin" and having one scout push against another. Demonstrated and allowed scouts to "feel" the gyroscopic force produced by a spinning bicycle tire. Described how these forces are used in reaction wheels to control spacecraft. | St. John's Episcopal Church |
| Dr. Jesper Gjerloev | 10/24/2006 | GEOSPACE/LWS, New Horizons, Time and Space A brief introduction to the evolution of the universe. | Benfield Elementary |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 10/20/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Co-Presented with Debbie Evans (SSA) on NASA Resources available for educators. Focus on MESSENGER and New Horizons Missions. | Tulsa Convention Center |
| Dr. S. Edward Hawkins III | 10/20/2006 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Toured Building 23 Environmental Test Facilities. Described details of testing flight hardware. Explained physics of radiative heat transfer. Discussed cleanliness and contamination as it pertains to space vehicles and instrumentation. Toured vacuum and vibration labs. | JHU/APL Environmental Test Facility |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 10/20/2006 | New Horizons, Planetarium show " Jupiter: what will New Horizons see?" | Fiske Planetarium |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 10/19/2006 | New Horizons, Planetarium show | Fiske Planetarium |
| Mr. Edward Schaefer D | 10/12/2006 | CRISM, New Horizons, STEREO, Talk to students about the interaction of engineering , science in spacecraft design | Park Hills Elementry |
| Dr. Jon Vandegriff | 10/12/2006 | New Horizons, ACE, This was an interactive lecture covering the topic "What is Space Weather?" given to a 4-H Rocketry Club. | Montgomery County 4-H Office |
| Dr. Denis Bogan | 10/10/2006 | New Horizons, Cassini, Show launch videos, spacecraft pictures, pictures of Saturn system, Q/A, and discussion | Christ the King School (4th Grade) |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 10/6/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, My presentation entitiled; STEREO, assembly, testing and launch; talks about the science of the mission, how the observatories were assembled and tested and what is involved in launching them into space. | Conewago Township Elementary School |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 10/4/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, My presentation entitiled; STEREO, assembly, testing and launch; talks about the science of the mission, how the observatories were assembled and tested and what is involved in launching them into space. | Sykesville Middle School |
| Dr. Richard Binzel | 10/4/2006 | New Horizons, Society for Exploration Geophysics Convention -- feature presentation for students. Thank you Kerri and Linda for shipping handout materials. | New Orleans Convention Center |
| Dr. S. Edward Hawkins III | 10/4/2006 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Discussed general space environment, and how space hardware differes from ordinary electronics or mechanical assembly. Discussed the rigors of the space environment and specific details about the thermal environment, power systems, and communications with space craft. | St. John's Episcopal Church |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 10/3/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, My presentation entitiled; STEREO, assembly, testing and launch; talks about the science of the mission, how the observatories were assembled and tested and what is involved in launching them into space. | Susquehanna Township Middle School |
| Dr. Andrew Cheng | 9/27/2006 | New Horizons, Evergreen Society consists of Johns Hopkins alumni and their invited guests. Wide-ranging discussion of New Horizons mission and space exploration | JHU Montgomery County Campus |
| Mr. Stephen Williams | 9/21/2006 | New Horizons, We presented a paper about the software implementation of thermal control on New Horizons. | AIAA Space 2006 Conference |
| Mr. Max Mutchler | 9/16/2006 | New Horizons, For STScI "Science Night" at the ASP Education and Public Outreach Conference, I gave a talk about recent Hubble observations of Ceres and Pluto, the latter being mission support for New Horizons. I presented new high-resolution images of Ceres, and described the discovery and followup research on Pluto's moons Nix and Hydra. The unavoidable topic of "what is a planet" was also cautiously addressed. | Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Mrs. April Whitt | 9/15/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, As guest speaker for the September meeting, I used power-point presentations from mission scientists to describe the extreme ends of the solar system, the missions heading there (MESSENGER and New Horizons), and what we hope to learn from them. | White Hall, Emory University |
| Mr. Robert Bokulic | 9/14/2006 | Apollo 11 Moon Landing, Video on the Apollo 11 moon landing as part of the Space Exploration merit badge. | Troop 617 Scout Meeting |
| Mr. Max Mutchler | 9/11/2006 | New Horizons, During the morning closed-circuit TV program at my son's school, I answered student questions about Pluto and the planet debate. I reassured the students that Pluto has not left the Solar System and they are free to continue loving Pluto unconditionally, while getting a rare glimpse into the classification debate which is an integral part of scientific progress. I mentioned the NH mission, and donated a "Passport to Pluto" DVD to the science coordinator, for interested students to check out. | Lutherville Lab Elementary School |
| Mr. Robert Bokulic | 9/7/2006 | Discussion of Manned Spaceflight, Discussion of the history of manned spaceflight, from the Mercury program through the new Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. | Boy Scouts, Troop 617 Meeting |
| Mr. SKIP BIRD | 9/4/2006 | New Horizons, BASICALLY SAME PROGRAM AS 8-26-06. MOSTLY EXPLAINED THE CHANGE IN PLUTO'S STATUS BY SAYING "80 YEARS AGO WHEN THE WERE LOOKING FOR PLANET X THEY FOUND PLUTO. 80 YEARS LATER PLUTO IS JUST AN X-PLANET." HAD ONE PERSON JUST ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT PLUTO, IT STATUS AND WHAT WE HOPE TO FIND WHEN WE GET THERE. | MD STATE FAIR |
| Mr. SKIP BIRD | 9/3/2006 | New Horizons, BASICALLY SAME PROGRAM AS 8-26-06. MOSTLY EXPLAINED THE CHANGE IN PLUTO'S STATUS BY SAYING "80 YEARS AGO WHEN THE WERE LOOKING FOR PLANET X THEY FOUND PLUTO. 80 YEARS LATER PLUTO IS JUST AN X-PLANET." HAD ONE PERSON JUST ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT PLUTO, IT STATUS AND WHAT WE HOPE TO FIND WHEN WE GET THERE. | MD STATE FAIR |
| Ms. Honora Dash | 9/1/2006 | New Horizons, Cassini, Professional Development for Science and Special Education teachers on the most recent findings from Cassini and a follow-up on New Horizons mission. | John Dewey High School |
| Mr. DAVE GEDE | 8/31/2006 | New Horizons, BASICALLY SAME PROGRAM AS 8-26-06. MOSTLY EXPLAINED THE CHANGE IN PLUTO'S STATUS BY SAYING "80 YEARS AGO WHEN THE WERE LOOKING FOR PLANET X THEY FOUND PLUTO. 80 YEARS LATER PLUTO IS JUST AN X-PLANET." | MD STATE FAIR |
| Mr. SKIP BIRD | 8/30/2006 | New Horizons, BASICALLY SAME PROGRAM AS 8-26-06. MOSTLY EXPLAINED THE CHANGE IN PLUTO'S STATUS BY SAYING "80 YEARS AGO WHEN THE WERE LOOKING FOR PLANET X THEY FOUND PLUTO. 80 YEARS LATER PLUTO IS JUST AN X-PLANET." | MD STATE FAIR |
| Mr. SKIP BIRD | 8/29/2006 | New Horizons, BASICALLY SAME PROGRAM AS 8-26-06. MOSTLY EXPLAINED THE CHANGE IN PLUTO'S STATUS BY SAYING "80 YEARS AGO WHEN THE WERE LOOKING FOR PLANET X THEY FOUND PLUTO. 80 YEARS LATER PLUTO IS JUST AN X-PLANET." | MD STATE FAIR |
| Mr. MALCOLM WILLETTE | 8/28/2006 | New Horizons, BASICALLY SAME PROGRAM AS 8-26-06. MOSTLY EXPLAINED THE CHANGE IN PLUTO'S STATUS BY SAYING "80 YEARS AGO WHEN THE WERE LOOKING FOR PLANET X THEY FOUND PLUTO. 80 YEARS LATER PLUTO IS JUST AN X-PLANET." | MD STATE FAIR |
| Mr. BRIAN ENEY | 8/27/2006 | New Horizons, WE SET UP 1-4 SOLAR SCOPES SHOWING THE SUN, WHEN IT WAS CLEAR, OR THE NORTH AMERICAN OPEN STAR CLUSTER, IT'S ONE OF THE FEW STAR CLUSTERS YOU CAN SEE DURING THE DAY IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK, IT HAS 50 MEMBERS AND SOME PEOPLE SAY THEY CAN SEE SOME BLUE NEBULOSITY AROUND THE STARS, WHEN IT WAS CLOUDY (IN CASE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THE CLUSTER ITS THE AMERICAN FLAG ON TOP OF ONE OF THE RIDES. WE MOSTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO PLUTO, AND WHAT THE SATELITE WAS GOING TO DO WHEN IT ARR | MD STATE FAIR |
| Mr. SKIP BIRD | 8/26/2006 | New Horizons, WE SET UP 1-4 SOLAR SCOPES SHOWING THE SUN, WHEN IT WAS CLEAR, OR THE NORTH AMERICAN OPEN STAR CLUSTER, IT'S ONE OF THE FEW STAR CLUSTERS YOU CAN SEE DURING THE DAY IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK, IT HAS 50 MEMBERS AND SOME PEOPLE SAY THEY CAN SEE SOME BLUE NEBULOSITY AROUND THE STARS, WHEN IT WAS CLOUDY (IN CASE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THE CLUSTER ITS THE AMERICAN FLAG ON TOP OF ONE OF THE RIDES. WE MOSTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO PLUTO, AND WHAT THE SATELITE WAS GOING TO DO WHEN IT ARR | MD STATE FAIR |
| Mr. Ken Brandt | 8/22/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Cassini, MER, Apollo, ISS, Teachers were briefed about New Horizons, as well as the other missions of discovery and ss exploration. | Robeson Planetarium and Science Center |
| Dr. Thomas Strikwerda | 8/21/2006 | New Horizons, Session on sensors for spacecraft - talk summarized NH star tracker performance for first six months of the mission. | AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference |
| Dr. John Spencer | 8/18/2006 | New Horizons, Description of the history of Pluto, current research, and the New Horizons Mission | Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Mr. Patrick Hogue | 8/15/2006 | New Horizons, Delivered two papers: 1) ground processing lessons learned, 2) potential biofouling of DI water systems. | SPIE conference 6291A San Diego, CA |
| Mrs. CYNTHIA KEELING | 8/7/2006 | MESSENGER, THE SESSION WAS GIVEN TO TEACHERS FROM RANDOLPH COUNTY SCHOOLS AT DAVIS AND ELKINS COLLEGE. | DAVIS AND ELKINS COLLEGE |
| Mr. Tracy Herriotts | 8/5/2006 | New Horizons, STEREO, Discussion of two missions to 4h Clovers. Their float theme in the 2006 Howard Co Fair is Space Science. | Howard co Fair |
| Dr. Neil Dello Russo | 8/1/2006 | New Horizons, Talked to the students about the Solar System, and careers in space science. Talked about how we study the planets and space, and what types of exploration and study would be done in the future. Passed out a story/coloring book about "Our Star the Sun" and read it to the students and answered questions. Talked about other Solar System objects such as asteroids and comets, showed pictures of astronauts on the Moon, and talked about New Horizons and passsed out NH growth charts to the students. | Columbia Acadamy Preschool |
| Dr. David Humm | 7/27/2006 | CRISM, Lecture to undergraduate students participating in a summer internship program at JHU/APL | JHU Applied Physics Lab |
| Mrs. April Whitt | 7/26/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, My presentation for the IPS conference in Melbourne, Australia was titled Worlds of Fire and Ice, and was a discussion of the MESSENGER and New Horizons missions. We included part of a MESSENGER activity using UV sensitive beads. The participants evaluated the presentation. Those evaluatiosn were submitted to the MESSENGER education team. | Bayview Hotel |
| Ms. Anita Ganesan | 7/24/2006 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, A tour was set up for the GSFC Astrobiology Summer Interns. Events included: Overview presentation of APL planetary missions by Dr. Louise Prockter; tour of Mass Spectrometer Lab by Dr. Will Brinckerhoff, visits to Vibration and Thermal Labs, Satellite Communications, and the NH/Messenger MOC. | Mass Spectrometer Lab (4-211), Vibration and Thermal Testing, Satellite Communications, MOC |
| Mr. James Kaidy Sr | 7/13/2006 | New Horizons, Discussed mission profile and science instruments along with G&C related topics | Bear Branch Nature Center |
| Mr. Bruce Booher | 6/29/2006 | New Horizons, Scouts went on a tour of the solar system and identified various facts about each planet. Information about Pluto and the New Horizons mission was shared with the scouts. Scouts traveled around to various space related stations in groups of 25. Each station lasted approximately 45 minutes. At the end of each session there was a brief question and answer period. | Boy Scouts of America, VA |
| Mr. Grant Tregre | 6/28/2006 | New Horizons, STEREO, This was an exciting event. My co-worker Andre Smith and I, presented information about general types of engineering and the particulars of what we actually do as engineers at APL. We used the missions we’ve been involved with (STEREO & NEW HORIZONS) as the key focus of our discussion. The students also watched DVD’s related to the missions and received materials about science, APL, and in particular NEW HORIZONS and STEREO. We received positive feedback form the students and administrators. | University of Maryland College Park |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 6/27/2006 | New Horizons, Teacher workshop sponsored through the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority. This session will cover NASA Education Resources, Solar System Exploration and the New Horizons Mission. Teachers must be selected to attend: http://www.spaceed.org/workshops/available.html | Tulsa Public Schools |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 6/22/2006 | New Horizons, Session at the Oklahoma Space Grant's Summer Teacher Workshop "Mission to Planet Earth". This session will cover NASA Education Resources and the New Horizons Mission. Teachers must apply and be selected to attend. I will also be available the 21st and all day the 22nd to answer questions and visit informally with participants. | University of Oklahoma |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 6/20/2006 | New Horizons, Session at the Oklahoma Space Grant's Summer Teacher Workshop "Mission to Planet Earth". This session will cover NASA Education Resources and the New Horizons Mission. Teachers must apply and be selected to attend. I will also be available the 21st and all day the 22nd to answer questions and visit informally with participants. | Western Technology Center |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 6/14/2006 | New Horizons, Talk with visuals plus discussion | Frasier Meadows Retirement Home |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 6/13/2006 | New Horizons, Session at the Oklahoma Space Grant's Summer Teacher Workshop "Mission to Planet Earth". This session will cover NASA Education Resources and the New Horizons Mission. Teachers must apply and be selected to attend. I will also be available the 21st and all day the 22nd to answer questions and visit informally with participants. | Western Technology Center |
| Mrs. CYNTHIA KEELING | 6/12/2006 | New Horizons, THE WORKSHOP WAS A SESSION FOR PRE SERVICE TEACHERS FROM FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY | NASA IV&V FACILITY |
| Mrs. CYNTHIA KEELING | 6/12/2006 | New Horizons, THE WORKSHOP WAS A SESSION FOR PRE SERVICE TEACHERS FROM FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY | NASA FACILITY |
| Mrs. CYNTHIA KEELING | 6/12/2006 | New Horizons, THE PRESENTATION WAS FOR THE NASA PRODUCT REVIEW IN HOUSTON, TX. | NASA FACILITY |
| Dr. Mark Perry | 6/10/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Keynote speech for the CTY award presentation. 10 minute overview of MESSENGER and New Horizons. | JHU, Homewood Campus, Shriver Hall |
| Dr. Ralph McNutt Jr. | 5/26/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Cassini, General discussion of space science with focus on the solar system and what we will learn with MESSENGER and New Horizons and how we will do it | Mount View Middle School |
| Mr. Rick Shelton | 5/25/2006 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Did talk about solar system and APL missions. Talked about NASA Deep Space Network, concept of round trip light times. | Mount View Middle Shcool |
| Mr. Stan Farley | 5/23/2006 | New Horizons, In-depth presentations about Pluto and the New Horizons mission. | John Marshall Middle School |
| Dr. Ben Bussey | 5/22/2006 | NEAR, I gave a talk to 75 third graders descriping my trip ti Antarctica on a meteorite hunting expedition | Jeffers High Elementary school |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 5/18/2006 | New Horizons, Three separate sections of the students in the Environmental Science Magnet at Sudbrook Middle School attended, along with their teachers. They have been taking a unit in astronomy and wanted to hear about the New Horizons mission. | Sudbrook Magnet Middle School |
| Mr. Joseph Cannon | 5/17/2006 | New Horizons, if CD-ROMs available that would be great. The overview will cover the New Horizons mission to Pluto, as well as general solar system info. | Vernfield Elementary |
| Mr. Max Peterson | 5/15/2006 | GEOSPACE/LWS, MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, MSX, spacecraft design and operation | River Hill High School |
| Dr. Robert Gold | 5/10/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Missions to the Frontiers of Space - Fire and Ice. This talk covered the New Horizons and MESSENGER mission science and key engineering concepts and a mission update. | Snyder's Willow Grove |
| Mr. Robert Jepson | 5/4/2006 | New Horizons, For Space Day - Discussed timeline/growth chart wth respect to significant dates in their future. Discussed current space activities (Shuttle, ISS, Rovers, MRO) as well as space contributions to weather monitoring. Discussed need to study math and science to support future space efforts. | Hallowell Elementary School |
| Mr. Joseph Cannon | 5/4/2006 | New Horizons, For Space Day - will discuss the mission to pluto and would like the growth chart to show where the ship will be as they get older. We will discuss how important they will be to the future of this program. | Vernfield Elementary |
| Mr. Andrew Webb | 5/2/2006 | CRISM, NEAR, New Horizons, Solar Probe, STEREO, The discussion was geared to an Earth Sciences class for 6th graders during section where they were discussing satellites. My talk started with mission concept and then moved into the engineering and types of problems that engineers must solve to meet the mission objectives set forth by the scientists. Lot's of material samples to pass out showing weight reduction techniques. Also talk about power of S/C with solar power examples. Talked about temperatures of space and had some demonstration | Fallston Middle School |
| Mr. Max Mutchler | 5/2/2006 | New Horizons, I gave a presentation to my son's 1st grade class. I discussed the Hubble and New Horizons missions, and the similar origin theories of the moons of Earth and Pluto. The students did a moon-making (collisions and cratering) activity, and launched nerf rockets to the moons they created. | Lutherville Lab Elementary School |
| Mr. Carl Engelbrecht | 4/27/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, Career day presentation at an elementary school. I described my job, and discussed the missions listed, including showing and describing s/c models. I also handed out and discussed posters and fact sheets, and then answered general questions about spacecraft, space, and APL. | Jeffers Hill Elementary School |
| Mr. Jerry Hombel | 4/25/2006 | New Horizons, During this presentation the value of using information from the NASA Education Platform to help teach science was discussed. Various fact sheets, posters, and activities were displayed and their uses described. The end resuolt of the presentation is the adoption by the these these teachers to use some of the NASA activites in their classrooms as a supplement to their teaching. Currently, these programs will be used by teachers at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade levels. | Wellpinit School District |
| Ms. Taunya Sweet | 4/25/2006 | New Horizons, The hour started out with a brief tour of the sky and pinpointing where/when Pluto would be above the horizon. We then moved into an activity on parallax using the New Horizons "Finding Planet X" activity. This then transitioned into how Pluto was found with a blink comparator, and attempting to locate Pluto on two slides. The discovery of Charon was then discussed. The audience then made thier own "Blink Comparator". The lecture concluded with finding Plutos new satellites. | Von Braun Astronomical Society Planetarium |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 4/22/2006 | New Horizons, I presented a talk on the New Horizons mission to a group of high school students, from 3 different schools, who are in a robotics group. | Park School of Baltimore |
| Mrs. Cynthia Keeling | 4/22/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Exhibits of missions, space food, space suit, posters, information, The Educator Resource Center and the Civil Air Patrol conducted an Aviation Day at the Morgantown Airport. We held a public exhibit and handed out materials. We had planned to conduct teacher workshops but was unable to do so. Materials were distributed to the public. The response was very good and it was an excellent way for NASA to show community support. | Morgantown Airport |
| Dr. Ivan Linscott | 4/22/2006 | New Horizons, My talk was on the scale and organization of the solar system, with the intent of leaving the students with a sense of scale. Most of the students knew the names of the planets, but mostly not their order or how far away. Even those who guessed great distance didn't appreciate the scale. Using simple fractions, we figured that out. | Horace Mann Middle School |
| Mr. Max Mutchler | 4/20/2006 | New Horizons, As part of Irvine's monthly lecture series, I gave a talk about the Pluto moon's discovery, and the status of both the Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons missions. | Irvine Nature Center |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 4/20/2006 | New Horizons, Presentation for "Teacher's Thursdays" at the Maryland Science Center. | Maryland Science Center |
| Ms. Melissa Snider | 4/20/2006 | New Horizons, Students attended activities in 3 sessions. Students made toilet paper solar systems and were impressed by how far Pluto is. Presenter talked about New Horizons, emphasizing that robotic probes are much faster than human spacecraft. Defined planets and talked about Kuiper Belt Objects. Students voted on the number of planets in our solar system (85% said 10). Growth charts and bookmarks were distributed. | New Hope Elementary |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 4/18/2006 | New Horizons, Denver Cafe Scientifique | Wine Coup |
| Mr. Richard Hildebrand Richard | 4/18/2006 | New Horizons, Presented an overview of the New Horizons mission and discussed some of the information on the Growth Charts. | Davidsonville Elementary School |
| Ms. Melissa Snider | 4/14/2006 | New Horizons, Students were divided into five groups. Students made toilet paper solar systems and were impressed by how far Pluto is. Presenter talked about New Horizons, emphasizing that robotic probes are much faster than human spacecraft. Defined planets and talked about Kuiper Belt Objects. Students voted on the number of planets in our solar system (99% said 10). Growth charts and bookmarks were distributed. | Monte Sano Elementary |
| Dr. John Spencer | 4/10/2006 | New Horizons, Talk on the discovery of Pluto, our current knowlege, and the New Horizons mission | Southwest Research Institute |
| Dr. Mark Perry | 4/8/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Part of JHU's Knowledge of the World Tour. Panel topic was Extreme Exploration | Lowes Hotel |
| Dr. Will Grundy | 4/7/2006 | New Horizons, Talked about recent Pluto and Kuiper belt science, how materials behave when very cold, did demonstrations with liquid nitrogen, and talked about the New Horizons mission. | Pinon Accelerated Middle School |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 4/6/2006 | New Horizons, Research seminar on the Kuiper belt and New Horizons. | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Mr. Bruce Savadkin | 4/5/2006 | New Horizons, I participated with NASA/Goddard in a class on Satellite design at UVA. My lecture covered flight software. | University of Virginia |
| Ms. Karen Kirby | 4/4/2006 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Dawn, RLEP, Cassini, Described space exploration and why we do it; past and present NASA missions; system engineering acitivities and skills needed to be an engineer; s/c power (solar, nuclear, battery); chemical versus electric propulsion; JHU/APL missions to Pluto and Mercury; Back to the moon (RLEP); rocket launches; DSN communication and Dawn mission to Vesta/Ceres. | Lakewood Elementary School |
| Dr. Andrew Lennon | 4/4/2006 | New Horizons, Discussion of New Horizons Mission to Pluto (VERY high level) and the distances between planets in our solar system, incorporating Kindergarten-level math concepts such as ordinal numerals, sorting (greater than, less than), measurement, and estimation. Demonstration consisted of constructing a scale model of the solar system using student volunteers to stand-in as planets, with a scale of 1ft = 1AU (dist. to Pluto 39.5 ft). Then discussed how old the students would be as NH passed each planet. | Manor Woods Elementary School |
| Ms. Honora Dash | 4/4/2006 | New Horizons, Sharing with elementary school children about New Horizons' journey through the solar system, using various activities. | PS 205 |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 3/28/2006 | New Horizons, I gave a presentation on New Horizons and the Kuiper belt as part of the planetary science mini-keynote section of the AbSciCon06 meeting. | Ronald Reagan Center, Washington, DC |
| Dr. Bob DeMajistre | 3/28/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Talk to kindergaten class | St. Martin in the Fields day school |
| Dr. Mark Perry | 3/25/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Part of JHU's Knowledge of the World Tour. Panel topic was Extreme Exploration | Universal Hilton |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 3/25/2006 | New Horizons, Training on NASA materials which will enhance the GLOBE objectives. Activities include: - Mission Geography - New Horizons Education Activities - EarthKAM - Solar System Fast Lesson Finder: Why do we Explore activity, Tricky Terrain activity, Unveiling Titan's Surface activity | Midwest City Public Schools |
| Mr. Jerry Hombel | 3/24/2006 | New Horizons, This was a general informational type lecture to a group of people interested in the NASA Space Program. | Moose Murals |
| Mr. Chris DeBoy | 3/23/2006 | New Horizons, TIMED, Career Day lecture/discussion about engineering and working in the Space program. Covered personal experience at JHU/APL, with particular focus on work on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto. | Mount Saint Joseph High School |
| Ms. Dina Tady | 3/19/2006 | New Horizons, Women in Science was the theme. Experiments were performed by the girls, then there was a talk. My segment was women in aerospace careers and an overview of the New Horizons mission. | Peterson Activity Center |
| Mrs. Cynthia Keeling | 3/17/2006 | New Horizons, A workshop was held at the West Virginia Conference of Teachers of Mathematics in Flatwoods WV. The presentation contained a Power Point,hands-on activities, demonstration, and several materials were distributed to teachers. The teachers loved the materials and wanted more information. | Days Inn Conference Center |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 3/16/2006 | New Horizons, I gave a presentation on the Kuiper Belt and New Horizons as part of the Space Physics Seminar at the Center for Space Physics at Boston University. | Boston University |
| Mr. Jerry Hombel | 3/15/2006 | New Horizons, During this presentation we discussed the purpose behind the New Horiozns Project, the types of research information that can be expected, the actual launch sequence, and the technical aspects behind preparing a mission. We also took the time to look at slides of the launch and the launch events leading upto launch day. | Wellpinit High School |
| Mr. Barry Fried | 3/10/2006 | New Horizons, Integrating New Horizons mission into space science curriculum. Share a variety of activities relating to the mission for teachers of all grade levels. | Petrides Educational Complex |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 3/9/2006 | New Horizons, I covered our new view of the solar system, the recent scientific results on the Pluto system, and an overview of the New Horizons mission. | JHU Dept of Physics & Astronomy |
| Mrs. Tanya Shank | 3/6/2006 | New Horizons, Charlotte Mecklenburg School System interviewed me regarding my solar system educator training. They asked quetions about the mission and how our school system would use the resources acquired. The crew also interviewed and observed how the mission is modeled in the classroom. | Frances Bradley Middle School |
| Mrs. Tanya Shank | 3/6/2006 | New Horizons, Charlotte Mecklenburg School System interviewed me regarding my solar system educator training. They asked quetions about the mission and how our school system would use the resources acquired. The crew also interviewed and observed how the mission is modeled in the classroom. | Frances Bradley Middle School |
| Mrs. Tanya Shank | 3/3/2006 | New Horizons, Students were engaged in using the New Horizons curriculum and its activities. The students created models, looked at NASA video on line. The activities were taught to classes of three classes of 30 over two days. | France Bradley Middle School |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 3/3/2006 | New Horizons, I was the speaker for the Goddard Scientific Colloquium. The title of my talk was: "Pluto: Gateway to the Solar System's Third Zone". I covered some general background info on Pluto and the Kuiper belt and presented material on New Horizons, including showing a launch video. | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Dr. Joel Parker | 3/1/2006 | New Horizons, Interview for student documentary. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nes3cAh8_DI | SwRI, Boulder office |
| Mr. James McAdams | 2/26/2006 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Spoke about careers for women is space-related focus area. Included hands-on participation of solar system scale activity. | Catonsville United Methodist Church |
| Mr. Nickalaus Pinkine | 2/26/2006 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Answered questions related to the New Horizons, MESSENGER and NEAR programs. Discussed satellite operations, I&T and basic science facts. | Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School |
| Mr. Mike Buckley | 2/25/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Overview of how scientists and engineers put together a space mission, using New Horizons as the big example! | Fountain Green Elementary School |
| Dr. Kevin Baines H. | 2/24/2006 | New Horizons, Cassini, Venus Express, Galileo, Monthly lecture series sponsored by JPL at PCC (Pasadena City College). Topic: "New Views of Hidden Worlds". Concluded with videos of NH launch and upcoming flyby of Jupiter,and new images of Pluto and its satellite system. | Auditorium at Pasadena City College |
| Dr. Robert Gold | 2/24/2006 | MESSENGER, Presentation to the Senior Aero/Astro Seminar on the MESSENGER mission, its science background, and the engineering that met the technical challenges of the extreme environment at Mercury. | U S Naval Academy |
| Dr. Kevin Baines H. | 2/23/2006 | New Horizons, Cassini, Venus Express, Galileo, Monthly lecture series at JPL. Described "New Vies of Hidden Worlds" about advances in exploring the depths of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Titan. Concluded talk with 2 videos and images of New Horizons going to Jupiter, and then onto Pluto. | Von Karmon Auditorium, JPL |
| Mr. Stan Farley | 2/22/2006 | New Horizons, History of Pluto, New Horizons, expectations for the future of the mission. | Jardine Middle School |
| Mrs. Tanya Shank | 2/22/2006 | New Horizons, We discussed the New Horizons Mission. Use of the curriculum in our Middle School. | Bradley Middle School |
| Dr. Ivan Linscott | 2/22/2006 | New Horizons, Briefing to the DSN on the New Horizons Mission and the REX experiment. | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Ms. Melissa Snider | 2/17/2006 | New Horizons, Students made toilet paper solar systems and were impressed by how far Pluto is. Presenter talked about New Horizons, emphasizing that robotic probes are much faster than human spacecraft. Defined planets and talked about Kuiper Belt Objects. Students voted on the number of planets in our solar system (79% said 10). Growth charts and bookmarks were distributed. | Caldwell Elementary |
| Mr. edward sdhaefer | 2/17/2006 | New Horizons, Discussion of the Solar system, design of the NH Spacecraft and its journey to Pluto | St Johns Regional School |
| Mr. Mike Buckley | 2/16/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Overview of how scientists and engineers put together a space mission, using New Horizons as the big example! | Fountain Green Elementary School |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 2/16/2006 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, I conducted three 1 hour assemblies for the entire 6th grade at Martin Meylin Middle School. I focused on the STEREO mission. I presented a self developed power point presentation entitled, "STEREO, spacecraft assembly, testing and launch" I also included a clean room suit demonstation for each assembly. | Martin Meylin Middle School |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 2/16/2006 | New Horizons, mission presentation | Boulder Senior Center |
| Dr. Ivan Linscott | 2/15/2006 | New Horizons, Overview of New Horizons and the January 19th launch. | Stanford Univeristy |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 2/14/2006 | New Horizons, 2 presentations to 6th and 8th grades | Shaw Heights Middle School |
| Mr. Ross Rottier | 2/11/2006 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, For Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet, provided handhouts, poster, banner-ups on recent NASA/APL space missions | Ressurection Church |
| Dr. Jeffrey Moore | 2/11/2006 | New Horizons, New Horzons Mission | San Jose Astronomical Association, Hoge Park |
| Mrs. Linda Gauthier | 2/11/2006 | New Horizons, These New Horizons activities were explored by the teachers: I. Growth Poster Activities II. Discovering Planet “X”. III. Orbit and Spin IV. Models of Solar System, including "solar system" bracelets We ended the wksh with a cake celebrating the 100th anniversary of Clyde Tombaugh's birth. He was born on Feb. 4 one hundred yrs ago and I was born on the same date 59 yrs ago! **These teachers are to be commended for their attendance less than 6 mos after Hurricane Katrina hit our area! | La. Arts and Science Museum Challenger Learning Center |
| Mr. Raghuram Tumkur | 2/10/2006 | New Horizons, Talked about the Solar System, Pluto in particular. Described the mission and the time it would take to reach Pluto. | Good Shepherd Montessori School |
| Mr. Scott Weidner | 2/9/2006 | New Horizons, New Horizons Mission to Pluto | O'Connor High School |
| Max Mutchler | 2/8/2006 | New Horizons, I gave a talk to the Westminster Astronomical Society about the discovery of two new moons of Pluto, and the New Horizons mission in general, including photos from launch week. | Bear Branch Nature Center |
| Dr. Kevin Baines H. | 2/6/2006 | New Horizons, Hubble, Galileo, Feature talk at Cub Scouts graduation to Boy Scouts. Talked about "Death of the Dinosaurs", using Hubble and Galileo images of comets clobbering Jupiter in 1995. Showed images of upcoming exploration of Jupiter by New Horizons and discussed the mission in numerous Questions and Answers after the talk. | Outdoor Center at Dana Point, CA |
| Dr. Hal Weaver | 2/4/2006 | New Horizons, I gave 3 talks on the New Horizons mission as part of Family Engineering Day at Boise State University. The audience included parents and children down to the elementary school level. All 3 talks were well-attended (standing-room only for one) and lasted for about 1 hour each. | Boise State University |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 2/4/2006 | New Horizons, Through graphics and hands-on projects, the participants will experience the exciting New Horizons Mission to Pluto Charon and the Kuiper Belt Objects. Mission information and a summary of the numerous educational activities will be provided. Each participant will receive a CD-ROM with the activities utilized in this presentation and other educational resources related to the New Horizons Mission and Solar System Exploration. Dont miss this invigorating look at the future of space exploration | Space Center Houston |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 2/4/2006 | New Horizons, Introducing innovative ideas to ignite imaginations! Participants will learn out of this world space games for the classroom. Develop ideas for building your learning community through an imaginative space carnival. Participants will play games, receive hand-outs on activities, construct a make-and-take craft, and brainstorm ideas for other events. Fun prizes will be awarded. | Space Center Houston |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 2/3/2006 | New Horizons, Participants will learn ways to merge language arts and space exploration together in a variety of fun activities. This workshop will focus on mythology, poetry, and creative writing with lesson plans and handouts included. | Space Center Houston |
| Dr. James Kinnison | 2/2/2006 | New Horizons, Showed presentation of New Horizons pre-launch and launch activities, including pictures of the spacecraft stacking, vehicle roll-out and launch. | Pickering Elementary School |
| Dr. Richard Binzel | 1/31/2006 | New Horizons, Research lecture. | Paris Observatory |
| Miss Taunya Sweet | 1/28/2006 | New Horizons, Planetarium show was given to all groups, with a focus on the solar system & New Horizons. They also did an abbreviated version of the New Horizons "Discovering Planet X" activity on parallax and the blink comparator. Bookmarks and Growth Charts were distributed. | US Space & Rocket Center |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 1/28/2006 | New Horizons, Northeastern Oklahoma Mathematics and Science Teachers Association Conference Overview of the New Horizons Mission and related Educational Activities | Northeastern State University |
| Max Mutchler | 1/27/2006 | New Horizons, A talk about moons in general, including the moons of Pluto, for my daughter's special education class. Make-a-moon activity where the students drop balls into a pizza-plate full of flour and cocoa to make craters. | Oakleigh Elementary School |
| Dr. Joel Parker | 1/26/2006 | New Horizons, What is a scientist, what does an astronomer do, Pluto, Kuiper belt, New Horizons mission | Mountainview Elementary School |
| Ms. Honora Dash | 1/23/2006 | New Horizons, Post-launch discussion and showed video footage of the launch and shared information provided at the New Horizons educator's workshop in Cocoa Beach, FL. Devoted time to the technology behind the Student Dust Counter. | John Dewey High School |
| Mr. Barry Fried | 1/23/2006 | New Horizons, A follow-up classroom discussion on the New Horizons launch and disseminated information provided at the NH Educator's Workshop in Florida. | John Dewey High School |
| Mr. R. Brad Perry | 1/20/2006 | New Horizons, Described the New Horizons Mission to Pluto and the science investigation planned for the Pluto-Charon flyby via a PowerPoint presentation and videos. Engaged the students with a question/answer dialog for active participation. | Windy Hill Middle School |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 1/20/2006 | New Horizons, 1 of 4 talks in an all-evening symposium on space exploration | University of Toronto |
| Max Mutchler | 1/18/2006 | New Horizons, I gave a "launch week" colloquium talk about the discovery of two new moons of Pluto and the New Horizons mission, at the Florida Institute of Technology which is near the Kennedy Space Center. My former professor, Terry Oswalt, invited me to give the talk. | Florida Institute of Technology |
| Dr. Richard Binzel | 1/18/2006 | New Horizons, Scientific briefing during the New Horizons launch. | Kennedy Space Center |
| Mr. James Stepp | 1/17/2006 | New Horizons, Amateur astronomer Jim Stepp, co-hosting with Dr. Kevin McCartney at the New Horizons Launch Party, gave a short PowerPoint -accompanied talk on space exploration, the planet Pluto, and the New Horizons Mission. The Launch Party was organized by NHz E/PO coordinator McGowan, then in Florida at launch. Helium balloons (pink / gray pairs with streamers) floated in the room; NASA NHz E/PO materials were on hand for visitors, refreshments were served. UMe Pres and VP, faculty and students attended. | UMaine Presque Isle Campus Center |
| Dr. Cathy Olkin | 1/17/2006 | New Horizons, Presented the New Horizons mission to third grade students in Cocoa Beach. | Freedom 7 Elementary School |
| Dr. Cathy Olkin | 1/16/2006 | New Horizons, Follow-up to january 11 visit. The kids had many questions about New Horizons and space exploration. | Alexander Dawson School |
| Max Mutchler | 1/16/2006 | New Horizons, I gave a talk about the discovery of two new moons of Pluto at the New Horizons Educators Workshop during "launch week". The event was hosted by Kerri Beisser. | Marriott |
| Mr. Joseph Peterson | 1/14/2006 | New Horizons, The New Horizons Science Data Pipeline was described (why we need it, what it does, and how it works). The pipeline, part of the Science Operations Center in Boulder, Colorado, is how raw data packets from the spacecraft are assembled and calibrated into science data for use by scientists and EPO. | Marriott Courtyard |
| Dr. Henry Throop | 1/13/2006 | New Horizons, Invited talk which covered the New Horizons mission in the context of exploration of our solar system and formation of nearby planetary systems. | Florida Institute of Technology |
| Mrs. Patty Seaton | 1/13/2006 | New Horizons, Stardust, First hour was visual tour of the solar system (no facts) to the music of Holst's "The Planets", with a 5-minute "intermission" to discuss the New Horizons mission to Pluto (not discovered at the time of Holst's compositions). In keeping with current events, we also mentioned the return of Stardust along with the launch of New Horizons as two missions that will drastically alter the way we view our solar system. A tour of the night sky with Q/A followed the musical presentation. | Howard B. Owens Science Center Planetarium |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 1/13/2006 | New Horizons, Public evening planetarium show | Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 1/12/2006 | New Horizons, Public evening planetarium show | Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado |
| Mr. Chris DeBoy | 1/11/2006 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Identical to Twin Ridge Elementary School presentation on same day. | Woodmont Academy |
| Mrs. Brenda Clyde | 1/11/2006 | New Horizons, I gave an overview of the New Horizons mission and gave a little background on Pluto. | Atholton Elementary School |
| Dr. Cathy Olkin | 1/11/2006 | New Horizons, Spoke to the kids about the upcoming launch of New Horizons. Then they watched it on the computers and I followed up by coming back post launch and answered more questions. | Alexander Dawson School |
| Mr. Chris DeBoy | 1/11/2006 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, Presentation to 3rd Grade. Demostrated planetary size and distance from Sun with models with emphasis on Pluto's uniqueness. Ran tour of entire solar system on projected computer screen using Celestia, incl Mercury/MSSGR and Eros/NEAR. Concluded with presentation on New Horizons mission, launch video animation, etc. | Twin Ridge Elementary School |
| Dr. Will Grundy | 1/10/2006 | New Horizons, Interview about New Horizons for local newspaper Arizona Daily Sun. | Lowell Observatory |
| Ms. Honora Dash | 1/10/2006 | New Horizons, Overview of New Horizons mission, background information on the planets, specifically concentrating on Pluto. | John Dewey High School |
| Mr. Barry Fried | 1/6/2006 | New Horizons, Provided information and set-up activity stations on the upcoming New Horizons mission to Pluto. Scout leaders assisted in manning the stations as the cub scout troop and parents participated in the fun in learning about the mission. | Glen Rock Central School |
| Dr. Joel Parker | 1/6/2006 | New Horizons, Rosetta, What does an astronomer do, types of astronomy, Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons mission, space missions | Mesa Elementary School |
| Mr. Barry Fried | 1/4/2006 | New Horizons, Description and lessons on the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. | John Dewey High School |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 1/4/2006 | New Horizons, Public and press briefing on mission | Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado |
| Max Mutchler | 1/3/2006 | New Horizons, As part of the STScI "Public Lecture Series", I gave a talk about the discovery of two new moons of Pluto. Although this discovery was made with the Hubble Space Telescope, the observations were conducted in support of the New Horizons mission, at the request of Hal Weaver and Alan Stern. Due to the New Horizons launch delay, Hal was also able to make a cameo appearance, and give a pre-launch mission update. The webcast can be viewed here: http://hubblesite.org/about_us/public-talks.shtml | Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Max Mutchler | 1/1/2006 | New Horizons, In conjuntion with a poster paper at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Washington DC, I gave a brief talk about the dicovery of two new moons of Pluto in the AAS Science Writers Seminar, hosted by AAS press officer Steve Maran. | Wardman Park Marriott |
| Mr. Christopher Kersey | 12/30/2005 | New Horizons, Gave brief description of Pluto. Spoke on most instruments; distinguished between planet/moon system and double planet. Slides on Pluto/Charon size comparisons to Earth/Moon, Atlas rocket. | Highland Road Park Observatory |
| Dr. Will Grundy | 12/22/2005 | New Horizons, Interview about New Horizons for local FM radio station KAFF. | Lowell Observatory |
| Mr. Nick DeMatt | 12/21/2005 | New Horizons, The talk focused on mission facts and the types of careers needed to do a deep space mission. | Trinity Lutheran Church |
| Mr. Nick DeMatt | 12/21/2005 | New Horizons, The talk focused on mission facts and the types of careers needed to do a deep space mission. | Sacred Heart School |
| Dr. Will Grundy | 12/19/2005 | New Horizons, Interview about New Horizons for local television stations 2 and 12 (might have run in Phoenix television market, as well, since these are affiliate stations). | Lowell Observatory |
| Mr. Luke Becker | 12/19/2005 | STEREO, I conducted three 1 hour assemblies for the entire 6th grade at Susquehanna Township Middle School. I focused on the STEREO mission. I presented a self developed power point presentation entitled, "STEREO, spacecraft assembly, testing and launch" I also included a clean room suit demonstation for each assembly. | Susquehanna Township Middle School |
| Dr. Miquel Antoine | 12/13/2005 | New Horizons, MESA Program Students | Celebration Christian Academy |
| Mr. Elliot Rodberg | 12/12/2005 | MESSENGER, NEAR, New Horizons, STEREO, TIMED, Discussed planets and solar system with students. Presented information on MESSENGER, New Horizons, and STEREO. Lots of student questions. | St. Johns Lane Elementary School |
| Dr. Bonnie Buratti | 12/3/2005 | New Horizons, This was a teacher's workshop with teachers from all over the country. There were hands-on activities, experiments and demonstrations. I gave a talk on Pluto and New Horizons. | Jet Propulsion Lab |
| Mr. Edward Schaefer D | 11/29/2005 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, How scientists and engineers work together to solve problems and answer key questions about the world around us. What types of engineers there are, and what thy do. Concluded with each of the scouts building a bridge which we then tested. | St Johns Scool |
| Luke Becker | 11/22/2005 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, I lectured as part of an Astro-BIology course at McDaniel College in Westminster Maryland. I conducted a "spacecraft 101" lecture which covered everything from mission selection through launch. | McDaniel College |
| Dr. Mark Perry | 11/22/2005 | New Horizons, Described the New Horizon mission and the technical challenges to an 8th-grade science class. This charter school emphasizes informal student-teacher interaction, so the talk was more of a discussion than a lecture. Also talked for 1/2 hour at a lunch-time science club. School website: http://www.mcaulifferegional.org/ | Christa McAuliffe Regional Charter Public School |
| Dr. Bonnie Buratti | 11/18/2005 | New Horizons, This was a general talk on New Horizons and Pluto/KBO science. | Pasadena City College |
| Dr. Robert Gold | 11/17/2005 | MESSENGER, NEAR, Innovative Interstellar Explorer, Century HS Academy Day brings in speakers who work in the associated fields of each Academy to help students understand professional life in their field. I described the science interests that drove the development of the NEAR, MESSENGER, and IIE missions and the engineering and technical developments required to realize each mission. | Century High School |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 11/17/2005 | New Horizons, Lively discussion with enthusiastic audience (including several retired aerospace engineers) | Boulder Senior Center |
| Dr. Bonnie Buratti | 11/17/2005 | New Horizons, This was an invited lecture - part of JPL's premier lecture series to the public. It covered the New Horizons mission, as well as the main topics in Pluto/KBO science. | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Dr. Nancy Chabot | 11/16/2005 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, Speaker at Career Day at Winters Mill High School. I spoke to 3 groups of about 25 students each for 20 minutes each about why and how I became a planetary scientist and about what I do as a planetary scientist. Included in that discussion, I mentioned Messenger, New Horizons, and Crism as space crafts and instruments which planetary scientists at APL work on, describing each briefly. | Winters Mill High School |
| Ms. Taunya Sweet | 11/14/2005 | New Horizons, Display table set up during an informal educator/teacher event. As participants approached table, they were made aware of the New Horizons mission and the availability of an educator workshops. Very informal setup - information shared on individual/small group basis. | US Space & Rocket Center |
| Ms. Melissa Snider | 11/12/2005 | New Horizons, Hands on exploration of solar system focusing on sun light distribution to planets, planetary orbits, other objects in Solar System including Kuiper belt, and robotic exploration of the Solar System. | Von Braun Astronomical Society Planetarium |
| Mrs. Kelly Wardlaw | 11/12/2005 | New Horizons, Aerospace workshop for Civil Air Patrol Aerospace Education Officers and Aerospace Education Members. Participants will learn about the NASA resources available and the New Horizons Mission | Oklahoma State University |
| Mrs. CYNTHIA KEELING | 11/11/2005 | New Horizons, THE PRESENTATION WAS GIVEN AT THE WEST VIRGINIA SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION MEETING. | GLADE SPRINGS |
| Dr. Alan Stern | 11/9/2005 | New Horizons, Science and engineering presentation of the New Horizons mission to Pluto/Charon and the Kuiper Belt. | Glenelg Country School |
| Ms. Honora Dash | 11/8/2005 | New Horizons, Teacher training for K-5 teachers on upcoming launch of New Horizons. Shared activities for teachers to use in their classes. | Petrides Educational Complex |
| Mr. Robert Moore | 11/5/2005 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Overview of spacecraft autonomy system design, using the MESSENGER mission and the New Horizons mission as examples. | JHU/APL Kossiakoff Center |
| Luke Becker | 10/31/2005 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, STEREO, I held a "space day" at Trinity Pre-School. | Trinity Pre-School |
| annette dolbow | 10/23/2005 | New Horizons, STEREO, Discussed Satellites in general, natural and man-made. Then discussed space and the planets. Talked about what we learn about space from satellites, then why and how we build them. Showed the STEREO dvd and then finished off dressing a few students in full cleanroom attire. I gave the same talk to three seperate third grade classes covering about 80 kids in all. The program was very well received and the kids were full of questions. | Clemmens Crossing Elementary School |
| skip bird | 10/22/2005 | New Horizons, cassini, voager, soho etc, We are presently working with the Carroll County library system to help out with their AHA! Science programs they have on Saturdays and Wednesdays. We set up solar telescopes outside if it's clear or we set up a night sky network program inside if it'sraining. we show kids the sun, the moon and anything else we can find. we ask them questions and when they can't answer them we send them into the library to find the answer or a book on astronomy to get a gift. they get book markers, stickers,etc | eldersburg branch carroll county library, bear branch nature center, soldiers delight regional park, |
| Dr. Fran Bagenal | 10/17/2005 | New Horizons, Pre-launch briefing on mission | Orlando Sentinel |
| Dr. Louise Prockter | 10/16/2005 | CRISM, MESSENGER, New Horizons, We handed out APL-mission-related literature at the Planetary Geology Division Booth at the annual Geological Society of America meeting in Salt Lake City. The New Horizons Height Charts/Posters were especially popular. | GSA Annual Meeting Exhibition Hall |
| Dr. David Humm | 10/12/2005 | CRISM, Talk on CRISM, including some science background on Mars from other missions and general description of CRISM | Bear Branch Nature Center |
| Dr. David Humm | 10/12/2005 | CRISM, Dinner and talk on CRISM engineering and science to Westminster Astronomical Society, Westminster, MD | Bear Branch Nature Center |
| Mrs. Gerri Purkey-Otto | 10/10/2005 | New Horizons, Discussed the materials I have and how Baltimore County could implement it itno their current curriculum. | Middlesex Elementary School |
| Dr. Will Grundy | 10/3/2005 | New Horizons, Built scale model of solar system scaled to 8" sun (outdoors: 863 m to Pluto). Talked about exploration of solar system, with emphasis on New Horizons and other current missions. Answered questions about careers in science & engineering. | Dilcon Community School |
| Mr. Jeffrey Simmons | 10/1/2005 | MESSENGER, New Horizons, Jeff will be discussing the missions of MESSENGER and New Horizons to his niece's elementary (3rd grade) school class and is requesting materials as a handout to help with the visualization of the topic (space). Jess would also request the New Horizons (short video) that is available (he will return it after use). | Elementary School in Calvert County |