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World Space Week 2002 Plans & Reports
Nationwide
- The National Space Grant Foundation underwrote the Earth & Sky radio broadcasts world-wide on 4 Oct 2002 and 10 Oct 2002. The broadcasts, which referenced World Space Week, were heard on approximately 655 radio stations in the United States by approximately 1,310,000 listeners. The programs were also broadcast around the world on Voice of America (6 times daily), American Forces Radio and World Radio Network to potentially several million additional listeners. We will be repeating the underwriting for this program next year .
- The GLOBE Program invited its schools to once again celebrate World Space Week, and we are planning a Web Chat on October 10 from 1500-1600 UT
entitled "GLOBE Data: Contributing to Satellite Missions from Below." Information on this can be found at www.globe.gov.
- The National Space Society did a 'Letters-to-the-Editor Campaign'. It challenges all Space enthusiasts to write a letter
in support of the space movement to the Editor of their local newspaper, magazine or any national newspaper and have the letter printed during World Space Week. For each letter submitted the participant will be
entered in to a grand prize drawing to win an all expenses paid trip to the National Space Society's ISDC 2003.
For more info visit www.nss.org and click on 'Now More Than Ever: Sharing our Vision of
a Spacefaring Society'
California
- Santa Clara County and Beyond -- Over 2,500 science teachers in Santa Clara County and adjoining communities received the World Space Week Teacher Kit, courtesy of Space Systems Loral. These materials will help the teachers use space to excite students about
learning during World Space Week. Teachers are competing for up to $10,000 in awards, including the Space Web Page design competition sponsored by Best Buy. Teachers anywhere in the world can
participate by downloading the Teacher Activity Guide at www.spaceweek.org.
- On October 5, the California Science Centers newly remodeled Air and Space Center will celebrate the United Nations World Space Week (entrance is
free). Organized by the California Science Center, Space Generation Foundation, Yuri's Night, the USC Small Satellite Club and the Caltech Mars Society.
- 1:00- 2:00 pm- Explore the new Air and Space Exhibits with other Space Gen folk
- 2:00- 3:00 pm- Join us as Laura Woodmansee, author of the new book 'Women Astronauts', tells us about life on the front lines as a space
activist/writer. We will also discuss what things we can do to make space cool in the coming months. In the Air and Space gallery theater (bottom floor- west side- unless you hear otherwise)
- 3:15 pm- Watch the new IMAX 3D movie Space Station- narrated by Tom Cruise.
- 4:00- 5:00 pm- Explore the new Air and Space Exhibits
- 5:30 pm- Descend on local eatery to meet the people you will end up going to Mars with. Or the people who will change the face of the
aerospace industry forever. Plus beer! We will also trade all the latest space gossip and listen to your favorite space war stories.
Georgia
- The Museum of Aviation, is planning a Young Astronauts' Day for Oct 19 with a former astronaut as a speaker and lots of space related activities
for 5th grade. We are working on getting an exhibit from Marshall Space flight Center, and have comet models coming from JPL's space place.
Iowa
- The sixth-period 9th grade physics class at Turkey Valley High School in Jackson Junction won this year's Space Week Science Challenge, a contest open
to all K-12 Iowa classrooms. The winning class, taught by Caroline Scheidel, will receive a Meade ETX Astro telescope and a Garmin e-TREX GPS receiver for their classroom and a field trip to the Science
Station and IMAX Theatre in Cedar Rapids. The teachers at Turkey Valley High School won an in-service training session and curriculum materials from the Iowa State University Extension Service's Science,
Engineering and Technology team. Meade ETX Astro telescopes also were awarded to the top classroom entries in two other categories. The 2nd-3rd grade talented and gifted classroom of Marilyn Hawkins
at Mount Ayr Elementary won for category K-3, and the 4th-8th grade science classroom of Gary Bottorff at Lansing Middle School won for category 4-8. Contestants listened to special editions of the Earth
and Sky radio program broadcast by WHO Radio in Des Moines during Space Week, October 4-10. Topics included the greenhouse effect, volcanoes, the moon and asteroids. Students then took a quiz based on the radio
programs and supporting activities. Each of the 43 classrooms that entered the contest will receive a classroom space travel kit from Team Encounter. The number of entries for the competition has doubled
since last year. Corporate contest sponsors were WHO Radio and the Earth and Sky radio program. The Iowa Space Grant Consortium is a NASA-supported organization aimed at increasing interest in aerospace
education and research. Its academic members are the University of Northern Iowa, Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and Drake University, Maryland
Maryland
- Education Office, Goddard Space Flight Center -- World Space Week Educational Materials distributed to schools
- Prince George's County Council Proclamation -- Tuesday, September 24. 9:15 a.m. County Administration Building, 14741
Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD
- Free Public Planetarium Program, "There's No Place Like Home" -- Friday, October 4, 7:30 p.m., Howard B. Owens Science
Center, 9601 Greenbelt Road, Lanham, MD (Space limited to 160 seats)
- "Prince George's County Space and Flight Center", Release of Feasibility Study Findings -- Monday, October 7), Prince
George's County Economic Development Corporation , 4640 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD
- Eleanor Roosevelt High School -- Assembly and Career Panel, facilitated by NASA Goddard Education Office, Tuesday, October
8, 10 a.m.-noon, 7601 Hanover Parkway, Greenbelt, MD
- Prince George's County School Board Proclamation -- Thursday, October 10, 7 p.m., Sasser Administration Building, Upper Marlboro, MD
Massachusetts
- Mars Week 2002, a three-day conference about the exploration of Mars, will be held at the MIT campus in Cambridge on October 4-6. Mars Week is an annual conference discussing
the engineering, scientific, political and social aspects of Mars exploration. Topics will include present and future missions, including the prospects for the human exploration and settlement of the Red Planet.
The student-run conference is organized by the MIT Mars Society, a chapter of the Mars Society, an international organization founded in 1998 to further the goal of human space flight to Mars through public
outreach and technical research. For further information, please refer to our web page: http://web.mit.edu/mars/www/marsweek02/
New York
- A conference on "Space Technology for Developing Nations, October 4, 10 AM - 5 PM with reception following. New York University (32 Waverly Place, room to be
announced. There will be five panels of roughly 1 or 1.30 hours each. The conference is co-sponsored by SpaceEquity.com & the NYC Chapter of the National Space Society (NSS/NYC) with participation
from the U.N. and the World Bank. For more info: http://www.nssnyc.org
- Panel 1 - Precision Agriculture (GPS Farming)
- Panel 2 - Remote Sensing (Joanne Gabrinowitz may moderate this one. Joanne is the Director of the National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center, University of
Mississippi School of Law)
- Panel 3 - Distance Learning (RS Bhatia from the Indian Embassy will participate)
- Panel 4 - Telecommunications & the digital divide.
- Panel 5 - Space Technology and the future of humanity as a whole (moderated by Taylor Dinerman of SpaceEquity.com)
Pennsylvania
- The North Museum of Natural History and Science in Lancaster, PA plans to become a participant in World Space Week 2002. We are planning a series of
speakers and programs on the weekend of October 5 and 6, 2002 that address the theme 'Space and Daily Life'.
Texas
- The World Space Congress in Houston begins on October 10. It combines the annual meetings of world space engineers and scientists into a congress of historic proportions. Click here for associated events that are planned.
- The Concho Valley Partnership represents 22 Independent School Districts in West Texas. We have distributed World Space Week Information to all of our
22 ISDs. We will have a World Space Week Orientation through the distance learning lab on September 25, 2002 from 3:45 to 5:00. This will be a 'pep rally' to get everyone excited about participating in
World Space Week. Teachers at the participating ISDs will then complete activities during World Space Week.
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