NASA Comet and Jupiter Missions Offer Educator Fellowships
MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Contact: Mary Beth Murrill or Jane Platt
January 22, 1998
NASA COMET AND JUPITER MISSIONS OFFER EDUCATOR FELLOWSHIPS
Two NASA space missions are seeking candidates to apply for
educator fellowships to help field-test educational modules and to
plan and participate in teacher training workshops developed by the
projects.
NASA's Stardust mission, which will launch in 1999, fly to a comet and
collect a sample for return to Earth, is seeking applicants for 10
educator fellowships. As part of a nationwide teacher training
initiative, the Stardust project is developing educational modules,
targeted at grades 4 through 8, that will be tested by the Stardust
Educator Fellows chosen from around the country.
In late spring/summer 1998, a second announcement of opportunity will
be distributed to solicit candidates from which an additional 15
Stardust Educator Fellows will be selected and trained in fall 1998.
Those selected for the educator fellowships will receive an
all-expenses-paid intensive training workshop about the comet sample
return mission this spring at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver,
CO. Fellows will also receive guidance on presentation strategies and
a complete teacher training presenter package so they can conduct
their own Stardust teacher training workshops.
Ideal candidates are actively teaching or conducting teacher training
in a formal or informal science environment (school district, science
center, museum, educational organization, etc.). Selected candidates
will be announced by March 6, 1998. Additional information for
Stardust Educator Fellowship applicants is available on the Stardust
home page at http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov
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