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Space Shuttle Countdown:
Live from Cape Canaveral
Ongoing online NASA Quest webcast event
This series follows the processing of the space shuttle from landing
through launch, introducing young people to NASA and the experts
involved with shuttle missions. Each episode is a webcast accompanied
by a full complement of chats with NASA experts.
Preparation and lesson materiels will be referenced to assist teachers
in the classroom. Lesson plans are gathered from a variety of sources
and every attempt is made to cover many curricular needs. These
include primarily fifth grade through university materials with
easy adaptations for younger students.
URL for information is http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/events/ksc99/.
Contact: Linda Conrad
lconrad@mail.arc.nasa.gov
NASA Quest Learning
Technologies Channel
Ongoing webcasts and chats on NASA-related topics. K-12 students
and educators are invited.
URL for information is http://quest.nasa.gov/common/events/index.html.
Contact: Terri Littlejohn-Jones
tlittlejones@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Women of NASA:
Interactive Events
Ongoing live web events to encourage young women to pursue math,
science, engineering careers. Using videos, webcasts and webchats,
young women reporters deliver peer perspectives on how to succeed
in a NASA career.
Events include live, launch webcasts, Virtual Take Our Daughters
To Work Day, Women's History Month events and more.
URL for information is
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/.
Contact: Tish Krieg
tkrieg@quest.arc.nasa.gov
Solar System Online
Ongoing online NASA Quest webcast event
This NASA Quest series allows students to chat with experts about
our solar system. Discussions include the sun, planets, comets,
asteroids and more.
URL for schedule and registration information is http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/common/events/.
Contact: Oran Cox
ocax@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Virtual skies
Upcoming fall NASA Quest webcast event
This air-traffic, management project for students and teachers
in Grades 9-12 is a project-based, learning activity with hands-on,
multimedia to enhance student, decision-making and problem-solving
skills. Topics will include aviation navigation, aviation weather,
communication air-traffic research. Materials are tied to the National
Standards in Mathematics, Science, Technology, Geography and Language
Arts.
URL for information is
http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/virtual/.
Contact: Susan Lee
slee@mail.arc.nasa.gov
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Planetary flight
Upcoming fall NASA Quest webcast event
Students in Grades 5-12 will learn about aerospace technology including
what it takes to fly on Mars. This will be an inquiry-based, learning
project that will allow students to design an airplane to fly on
Mars - the stuff dreams are made of.
URL for information is
http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/planetary.
Contact: Susan Lee
slee@mail.arc.nasa.gov
NASA's Space Team Online
Upcoming NASA Quest webcast event
Join the men and women who make the space shuttle and space station
fly.
Peek behind the scenes as astronauts prepare for space missions
and share the adventure of designing and building humanity's new
home in space, the International Space Station.
Learn about how the space station is assembled in orbit and how
it will pave the way for humanity's long-term occupation of the
high frontier.
URL for information is http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/events/iss/.
Contact: Linda Conrad
lconrad@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Deep Space Online Questchat
with David Thompson
November 22, from 10-11a.m. (Pacific)
David Thompson is helping NASA Goddard Space Flight Center research
pulsars and gamma rays. He is collaborating with a group of particle
physicists and astrophysicists who are building the next-generation,
high-energy, gamma-ray telescope.
URL for information is http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/common/events.cgi.
Contact: Oran Cox
ocax@mail.arc.nasa.gov
SC 2000
November 4-10
Dallas Convention Center
Dallas, Texas
Supercomputing 2000 (SC2000) is the premiere conference on high-performance
computing. It will feature wireless communications, networking,
data-intensive applications, supercomputing, scalable computing,
palm/wearable computers and other technologies on the forefront
of communications and computer science. NASA's High Performance
Computing and Communications Program will exhibit at the conference.
URL for event and registration information is http://www.supercomp.org/.
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