NASA to Welcome Schools into Program
Posted on: Thursday, 27 May 2004, 06:00 CDT
National Aeronautics and Space Administration representatives will visit with students of the Biddeford Middle School from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. today to welcome Biddeford Middle School and John F. Kennedy School into the NASA Explorer School family.
Angela Diaz, deputy associate administrator for education out of NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., will visit with students. She is second in command in the congressional affairs office.
Accompanying Diaz will be NASA astronaut Richard Linnehan, a Lowell, Mass., native who attended Colby College and the University of New Hampshire and has strong ties to New England.
Linnehan has flown in space as a mission specialist. His biography information can be read online at www.jsc.nasa.gov/bios.
Gov. John Baldacci, Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, Rep. Tom Allen and Mayor Wallace Nutting have been invited to the event, as have other city officials and school board members.
The two schools have the distinction of being the only two in the state that are part of the program. They will work directly with NASA to obtain resources, teaching materials and training in content areas.
Students will have opportunities to participate in NASA missions and design experiments to possibly fly in microgravity.
The NASA Explorer School Team consists of five staff members, including one administrator, three teachers from BMS and one from JFK, who are working to improve instruction in math, science and technology. The team will travel to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in July for a week of intensive content training.
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