[YAPA] FW: NASA offering flight experiences for educators

[Cynthia A Smotzer]

Read on about an interesting opportunity at NASA.
Cindy Smotzer

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From: William G Sturrus
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 10:17 AM
To: Cynthia A Smotzer
Subject: FW: NASA offering flight experiences for educators

Cindy

Can you forward this to the YAPA elist?

Thanks
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From: Raymond E Beiersdorfer
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:41 PM
To: William G Sturrus
Subject: NASA offering flight experiences for educators

Greg,

Please send this to YAPA and ask Sandy to distribute to the OPFERST HS teachers. I am in Taiwan and do not have access to my e-mail address book.

NASA OFFERING FLIGHT EXPERIENCES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STEM EDUCATORS—WALLOPS ROCKET ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS (WRATS)

NASA Wallops Flight Facility will host the third Wallops Rocket Academy for Teachers June 17 – 21 at NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia near Chincoteague Island. We would appreciate your help in disseminating this information to high school STEM educators including science, technology, engineering and mathematics immediately. Due to government sequestration, all education programs required approval before soliciting for participants. There is a very brief turnaround time on this workshop. Spaces are limited to 20 teachers so please do not delay sharing the information.

The workshop will provide a *$1000 stipend to offset the expenses of attending the weeklong workshop. Participants will work alongside NASA’s Sounding Rocket Program Office engineers to build and launch a payload aboard a ‘WRATS’ model rocket. In addition, this unique rocketry workshop culminates with the launch of a Terrier-Orion rocket on Thursday, June 20. Arrangements have been made for a block of rooms on-site at the Wallops dorms at a cost of $49.00 per night for a single room (non-taxable total for 5 nights = $245). Once we have confirmed your registration, information regarding accommodations will be provided.

Anyone interested in attending this authentic rocketry workshop should contact Linda Sherman, Education Specialist, linda.a.sherman at nasa.gov or 757-824-2634. Please be sure to include an email address and phone number where you can be reached outside of the normal school day/year. We encourage Earth science, physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, environmental and general science educators to attend as well as all mathematics, computer science, engineering and technical educators.

More information at: http://education.wff.nasa.gov/

Please feel free to share this information with your friends and colleagues.

* Requirements to receive the $1000 stipend are completion of the full weeklong experience, a classroom implementation plan, workshop survey, and evaluation. Stipends will be issued within a few weeks after the end of the workshop.

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**This message was sent via the NASA PA Space Grant Consortium listserv, please do not contact the Space Grant directly regarding this announcement, unless you would like to be removed from the listserv (teachscience at psu.edu).