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JANUARY 23 - 25, 2003
NASA SUPPORTS CHILDREN’S ENGINEERING CONVENTION
NASA Langley Research Center will show teachers how to use its
materials in the classroom at the seventh annual Children’s
Engineering Convention (CEC) Jan. 23-25 at the Williamsburg
Woodlands and Cascades Conference Center, Williamsburg, Va.
Sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education, the convention
is designed to help teachers introduce elementary school students
to inventions, innovation, engineering and the world of
technology.
Through NASA’s Center for Distance Learning, a
collaborative effort of NASA Langley’s Office of Education and
Christopher Newport University (CNU), NASA researchers, faculty and
educators will conduct workshops and demonstrations that focus on
staff development and ways to encourage children to create, use and
manipulate technology. Demonstrations of technology activities for
the classroom plus how to correlate these activities with the
Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) will be showcased.
Nationally known educators and television celebrities Dr. Edwin
Sobey and Professor Henry Petroski are keynote speakers for the
convention. Sobey is the president of the Northwest Invention
Center, Redmond, Washington. His resume includes extensive
television, radio, and film experience that include executive
producer and host of Idea Factory; host of "Science Made Simple"
for 1, 2, Kangaroo; and co-host and scientific consultant to Blow
the Roof Off for Ohio Educational Broadcast Network. Sobey has
published over a dozen children’s books, including Wacky Water
Fun with Science, Just Plane Smart, Inventing Toys: Kids Having Fun
While Learning Science, and Wrapper Rockets and Trombone
Straws.
Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic professor of civil
engineering and professor of history at Duke University and author
of various engineering books, including Design Paradigms; Engineers
of Dreams; Invention by Design; Remaking the World; and The Book on
the Bookshelf.
Petroski lectures regularly to both technical and general
audiences in the U.S. and abroad and has been interviewed
frequently on radio and television. In addition to appearances on
National Public Radio and public television, he has been a guest on
many radio talk shows and television shows including the History
Channel, CNN's "Talk Back Live" and NBC's "Today Show." For more
information about the Children’s Engineering Convention,
visit:
http://www.vtea.org/ESTE/
For more information about NASA’s Center for Distance
Learning, visit
http://dlcenter.larc.nasa.gov/
For more information about Christopher Newport University,
visit
http://www.cnu.edu/
CEC SPEAKERS AND TOPICS:
Date: January 24, 2003, 8:30-10:00 AM
Speaker: Susan Holland, NASA Langley’s Office of
Education
Topic: Using NASA Educational Materials in the Classroom
Date: January 24, 2003, 10:15-11:45 AM
Speaker: Dr. Richard Byles, Virginia Air and Space Center,
Hampton, Va.
Topic: Space Colony – A Science Center/School
Collaboration
Date: January 24, 2003, 1:30-3:00 PM
Speaker: Diane Fisher, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, California
Topic: How to Design and Build a Model Spacecraft from Found
Materials
Date: January 24, 2003, 1:30-3:00 PM
Speaker: Shannon Ricles, Christopher Newport University, Newport
News, Va.
Topic: Using Problem-Based Learning to Introduce Children to the
World of Technology
Date: January 25, 2003, 8:30-10:00 AM
Speaker: Ron Shaneyfelt, NASA Langley’s Office of
Education
Topic: Networking Science Activities for Elementary Students
Date: January 25, 2003, 8:30-10:00 AM
Speaker: Dr. Randall Canton, Christopher Newport University,
Newport News, Va.
Topic: Engineering Team Design Challenges for Young People
Date: January 25, 2003, 10:15-11:45 AM
Speaker: Scott Striepe, NASA Langley’s Mars Planetary
Team
Topic: Mars Lander Design for Kids
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