HR: 11:20h
AN: ED41E-05    [PDF]
TI: Education/Public Outreach, and IDEAS grant in support of the NASA HEX sounding rocket mission launched March 2003 in Alaska
AU: * Brown, N B
EM: nbrown@eagle.ptialaska.net
AF: Neal B. Brown, Alaska Space Grant Program University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-5919 United States
AB: Education/Public Outreach materials were developed in conjuncation with K-12 classroom teachers for the NASA sounding rocket Horizontal E-Region Experiment launched in March 2003 from Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. The science coordinator for the Yukon-Koyukuk school district and HEX principal investigator Mark Conde of the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks also carried out a NASA funded IDEAS grant in which middle school students made observations and measurements of the chemical releases which were the backbone of the HEX measurement program. Live From the Aurora, a national program sponsored by several agencies including NASA and NSF, involving live television interactions between rocket scientists and students overnighting at four museums also took place in the same launch window. I will discuss the problems encountering in developing and getting information about cutting-edge science, out in time-frames so they were useable by teachers and students, and some of the fun things that happened while working with national television media programs.
DE: 0310 Airglow and aurora
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting