One month until microgravity, and we want you to get involved!

One month from today, I will be in Houston prepping for our microgravity flight. However, it’s summer here, and all of our students are off on summer holiday. We’re looking for teachers in year round schools or internationally to join us on our adventure. We want to share this STEM experience with you and your… Continue reading One month until microgravity, and we want you to get involved!

Involving students in our microgravity flight

This summer, I will be completing a microgravity experience flight with NASA’s Teaching from Space office. As my teammates and I prepare for our flight, we are involving students in as much of the process as possible. They are helping us to develop our experiment procedures and are collecting our ground based data. Another way… Continue reading Involving students in our microgravity flight

When you get such good news all you are is speechless!

I got a text from my friend Krissy today  that said: [important]See you girls in Houston! NASA just called me!!!!!!!!![/important] At the beginning of the month, I applied for the NASA MicroGravity eXperience with Krissy and three other amazing educator friends from Advanced Space Academy. (Krissy and I had applied in December of 2011, but… Continue reading When you get such good news all you are is speechless!