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Kalianne L. Neumann; Susan L. Stansberry; Crystal L. Del Rosso; Stacey S. Welch; Toni A. Ivey – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
Moonshot is the redesign of NASA's High School Aerospace Scholars (HAS), which traditionally engaged Texas high school juniors in a 16-week online course for credit and an intense week-long onsite experience working in teams with experts at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC). Due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), our challenge was to design,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Aerospace Education, Instructional Design, Online Courses
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Peckham, Susanne – Tech Directions, 2009
This article features the team of students from Madison (Wisconsin) West High School who took first place in the Seventh Annual Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC), earning the title of national champion. The four-member team--Jacqui German, Tenzin Sonam, John Schoech, and Ben Winokur--spent several months perfecting their design after the…
Descriptors: Scholarships, High Schools, Aerospace Education, Science Careers
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Caron, Daniel W. – Technology Teacher, 2008
Mentorship is a valuable learning tool. A quick search of the Internet will result in hundreds of examples of mentorship between students, teachers, and people from industry. In this article, the author describes an e-mentor program used by aerospace students at Kingswoood Regional High School in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. The author also describes…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Development, High School Students, School Community Relationship
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Stinner, Arthur; Metz, Don – Physics Teacher, 2010
This article is intended to model the ascent of the space shuttle for high school teachers and students. It provides a background for a sufficiently comprehensive description of the physics (kinematics and dynamics) of the March 16, 2009, "Discovery" launch. Our data are based on a comprehensive spreadsheet kindly sent to us by Bill Harwood, the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High School Students, Spreadsheets, Science Instruction