November
13, 10:00 - 10:50 am ET-- The
Challenge for Students, Part
1 -- Videoconference and Webcast. NASA's
Challenge Master will present principles of flight and give the Challenge.
Interested classes may participate through 2-way videoconferencing
or via the webcast.
The
Challenge --
Students must design, build, and test their glider.
Process and results must be published on their
team Web site by Thursday, Dec. 7, midnight.
Email project urls to Cris Crissman at ccrissma@dpi.state.nc.us
There will be four
levels of competition with the three most outstanding
teams in each level
invited to Raleigh for the December 15th celebration
(either actually or virtually ;-). The team judged
the most outstanding at each level will be invited
to present their research to the NASA Challenge
Master in a 2-way videoconference. The day's events
will be webcast around the world.
Elementary,
Grades 4-5
Middle,
Grades 6-8
High School,
Grades 9-12
Extreme --
Any team from any level is invited to participate
in the Extreme Challenge. The Extreme Challenge
requires that the shoebox glider carry a raw
egg safely to a distant landing site.
For a free and simple
Web construction tool for students, see www.4teachers.org's
Project Poster Students
are often disappointed that they can only add one
graphic to the Project Poster pages though so www.bravenet.com has
been recommended as an easy commercial site for
building webpages with the option to add lots of
graphics. Also, an alternative plan is to have
students create their reports
in
Word
and
then
the "Webmaster"
can convert these to PDFs and link to these
pages from
a homepage. Our goal is for students to learn to
communicate their results as a scientist would
and the technology should support and not hinder
the process.
For
additional NASA resources . . .
December 8 --
Announcement of most outstanding teams. Top
teams will be invited to make their presentations
for NASA and the world and to participate in the
Third Annual Great Shoebox Glider Challenge Air
Show.
December
15, 10:00 - 12:00 pm ET -- Most outstanding
teams make their presentations and participate
in the Third
Annual Great Shoebox Glider Air Show. Teams invited
to present can participate via 2-way videoconferencing
from anywhere.
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