FAIRMONT, W.Va. — On Friday, January 12, 2018, staff members of NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Program Educator Resource Center (ERC) will attend the annual June Harless Center Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Event. The reception begins at 5:30 p.m. with dinner and the induction ceremony will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Foundation Hall at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Each year, members of the educational community are inducted into the Harless Hall of Fame and in 2017, the ERC was selected for this honor.
The mission of the June Harless Center is to provide leadership in education initiatives for West Virginia educators and students. The Center provides educators and families of rural West Virginia with a support system that addresses educational problems, initiates and sustains school improvement and provides innovative and creative programming for Pre-K through grade 12 students, teachers and administrators. Center staff members have developed exemplary programs in professional development in every curricular area and in numerous delivery methods as well as instructional programs for students that provide for exciting, engaging and productive classrooms.
In partnership with Fairmont State University, the ERC provides resources and training opportunities to many West Virginia educational communities with science, technology, engineering and mathematics resources for the classroom. The ERC provides in-service, pre-service, and informal educators with an easily accessible source of materials that reflect NASA’s current research and technology in Earth and Space sciences.
For more information about the ERC, please visit: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ivv/education/educators.html
If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview, please call Bailee Miller at 304-367-8270 (work) or send an email to Bailee.R.Miller@ivv.nasa.gov