Sun, Jan 09, 2011
As Many As 93,000 Students May Watch Live Telecast
International Space Station residents Scott Kelly, Cady
Coleman and Paolo Nespoli will speak on Tuesday, Jan. 11, to 150
students from Kathleen High School's Central Florida Aerospace
Academy (CFAA) in Lakeland, FL.
The CFAA prepares students to go into advanced aerospace
education or the aerospace industry. In 2009, the academy received
an agency grant to develop a NASA-based science, technology,
engineering and mathematics, or STEM, curriculum. The station
astronauts will answer student questions on Jan. 11, from 11-11:20
a.m. EST. In preparation for the conversation with astronauts in
space, the students have been participating in science activities,
exploring careers in science with local scientists and engineers,
studying a floor plan of the International Space Station and
learning about experiments in microgravity.
The live downlink will be shared with other students through the
Florida Aviation Network, the Federal Aviation Administration
Training Network and the Government Educational Training Network.
This will give approximately 93,000 students in Polk County's K-12
classrooms the opportunity to watch the event.
NASA astronauts Kelly and Coleman and Nespoli of the European
Space Agency are conducting science experiments aboard the space
station. Kelly serves as the Expedition 26 commander until March
when he returns home. Coleman and Nespoli will complete their
station mission in May.
This live, in-flight education downlink is one in a series with
educational organizations in the U.S. and abroad to improve
teaching and learning in STEM subjects. It is an integral component
of Teaching From Space, a NASA education program. Teaching From
Space promotes learning opportunities and builds partnerships with
the education community using the unique environment of space and
NASA's human spaceflight program.
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