Adrian Gardner, CIO NASA Goddard Space
Flight CenterMay 8, 2012
Educating Our Leaders of Tomorrow
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) est. 1958
White Sands Test Facility
Stennis Space Center (SSC)
Plum Brook Station (PBS)
Wallops Flight Facility (WFF)
Goddard Institute of Space Studies(GISS)
Ames Research Center (ARC)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) Kennedy Space
Center (KSC)Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
NASA Headquarters (HQ)
Langley Research Center (LaRC)
IV & V Facility(IV&V)
10 Centers7 Facilities19,134 civil servants30,000+ contractors
Glenn Research Center (GRC)
NASA Administrator, Gen. Charles Bolden Jr.
Vision: To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.
Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF)
NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
NASA Chief Information Officer, Linda Cureton
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
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NASA Education Vision Statement
To advance high quality STEM education using NASA’s unique capabilities
STEM Education Framework
Relevance NASA Content Diversity Evaluation Continuity Partnership/Sustainability
Engage
Inspire
Identify, cultivate, and sustain a diverse workforce and inclusive work environment that is needed to conduct NASA missions Employ
EducateEngage the public in NASA’s missions by providing new pathways for participation.
Inform, engage, and inspire the public by sharing NASA’s mission, challenges, and results.
Build strategic partnerships that promote STEM literacy through formal and informal means.
Learners
Educators
Institutions
OutcomesAudiences
Operating Principles
- Teachers
- Faculty
- Students
3/30/03
- NASA Education Programs
- NASA Career related decisions
NASA STEM Education Ecosystem
DOE, NSF, NIH, OSTP, USDA
Federal STEM Education Portfolio Priorities:
1.Effective K-12 STEM Teacher Education
2.Engagement in STEM
3.Undergraduate STEM Education
4.Serving Groups Traditionally Underrepresented in
STEM fields
Federal STEM Collaboration
STEM Partnerships…Reaching Learners, Educators and Institutions
STEM Partnerships…Building the Future Together
Will.I.Am
LEGO
Univision
• Over 45,000 students
• Over 5,500 educators
• Camps and activities in 46 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
• NASA’s Summer of Innovation leverages NASA-unique research and discovery as a powerful context for STEM engagement during the summer months.
• Summer of Innovation inspires middle school students and sparks their imaginations and interests using the excitement of NASA’s missions.
Summer of Innovation Reach in 2011
Hands-on STEM Activities Engage Students
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
Great Moonbuggy Race
FIRST Robotics
NASA Internships, Fellowships and Scholarships
NASA Student Ambassadors...Why Being a NASA Intern is Cool!
www.intern.nasa.gov
International Space Station…Educating Students in STEM
NASA Educator Outreach
NASA CORE
NASA Explorer Schools
Digital Learning Network
Ways to Obtain NASA Education Materials
View and download from NASA website
www.nasa.gov/education
Visit a NASA Educator Resource Center (ERC)
www.nasa.gov/education/ercn
Purchase materials from the Central Operations of
Resources for Educators (CORE)
www.nasa.gov/education/core
or
Contact Dr. Mabel Matthews, Office of Education, <[email protected]>
Looking Towards the Future: Opportunities for the Next Generation
International Space Station New Space Launch System
Mars Science Laboratory NASA’s Orion
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