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Celebrate Black History Month Virtually: Ask Questions of NASA Engineers

An online event honoring Black History Month

• ".... What is it like to work at NASA?
• What jobs do engineers have on space missions?
• What classes should I take to become an engineer?
• A panel of African American engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and a former high school intern will answer these questions and more during a live online program on Wed., Feb. 24 at 1 p.m. Eastern/10 a.m. Pacific. 
• JPL manages many robotic space missions for NASA, including the Mars Exploration Rovers and the Cassini Mission at Saturn. .."

Now here is a good news story and a good idea too !!

 

We not only have to get more kids interesting in science and engineering we need to promote more good black and minority leaders and examples - we don't need more basket ball players and all the kids can't aspire to be rappers, quarterbacks and sitcom comedians

 

I think this is a fabulous effort by NASA and truly needs to be given an attaboy and this needs some on air PR and folks need to pass this on

 

Let's see more minority and majority engineers  - and women especially to humanize an old boy network -

 

and we have to encourage and promote more US home grown inventors and dreamers and folks who push the envelope - not just wait for the options and doors to close while we watch the millions of Chinese and Japanese and Indian engineers work on the next space race to  the moon; and Brazilian and Korean engineers perfect the next improved vehicles; and wait for Singapore or Chinese entrepreneurs to back engineer and then prison labor the next Walmart Black Friday special

 

Please pass this on and lets get some on air attaboys and internet chat going !!!

 

  
        Peace, Hugs, and Purrs, 
  Carolyn Rose Goyda
Missouri, USA
rosegojda@aol.com
rosegojda2@aol.com
'awaken and shaken the sheople'

From: education@nasa.gov
Celebrate Black History Month Virtually: Ask Questions of NASA Engineers

What is it like to work at NASA? What jobs do engineers have on space missions? What classes should I take to become an engineer? A panel of African American engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and a former high school intern will answer these questions and more during a live online program on Wed., Feb. 24 at 1 p.m. Eastern/10 a.m. Pacific.  JPL manages many robotic space missions for NASA, including the Mars Exploration Rovers and the Cassini Mission at Saturn.

This online event honoring Black History Month is geared to high school students. School audiences will be able to "tune in live" to the NASA/JPL UStream Web page at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl to watch the 30- to 40-minute program.

Classrooms are invited to email questions in advance to the panel. All questions must be received by Friday, Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. Eastern/3 p.m. Pacific. To submit a question, send it to education@jpl.nasa.gov . Please include school name, city, state, grade level and, preferably, student's first name. No last names will be used. 

 A few pre-selected schools may pose questions live to the panel.

The panel of engineers includes:

Kobie Boykins -- Kobie began his work at JPL as a student "co-op" working on the mobility system for the Mars Pathfinder Mission. He was involved in building the solar array panels for the Mars Exploration Rovers and is currently working on the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory Mission.

Tracy Drain -- Tracy's first assignment at JPL was to work on futuristic robotic outposts on Mars. She later built and tested command sequences, or computer instructions for a spacecraft, for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission. On the Kepler Mission, Tracy co-led the operations team in responding to unplanned events during space travel.  She is currently working on the Juno Mission to Jupiter, focusing on ways to ensure safe space travel to the planet.

Carrine Johnson – Carrine is currently a senior in a Southern California high school. Last summer she was an intern at JPL. This fall, Carrine plans to attend college and major in engineering.

Visit http://education.jpl.nasa.gov for more information about JPL's educational opportunities and teacher resources.

All NASA educational materials are at http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/about/index.html

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http://www.nasa.gov/education

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