ED003
Amazing Technologies and Capabilities That Contribute to STEAM
Session ID#: 157004
Session Description:
NASA and other agencies play an essential role in Education and Communication to inspire, engage and educate. The remarkable science discoveries, knowledge, and research are shared with audiences through a variety of technologies such as web portals, mobile apps, VR/AR applications, citizen science/crowdsourcing applications, and the serving of NASA and other data sets as commodities for use by advanced visualization facilities including planetariums. This contributes to improving teaching and learning, increasing scientific literacy of the general public, and enriching STEAM efforts. This session presents talks and demonstrations that describe existing capabilities, technologies, tools and facilities that contribute to Education, Engagement and Communication; exciting projects and programs in development; and what other awesome technology ideas that will greatly benefit Education, Engagement, Communication, and STEAM.
Index Terms:
0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]
Primary Convener: Brian Hamilton Day, NASA Ames Research Center, Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Conveners: Emily Law, CalTech JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Kristen J Erickson, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Tour It: Empowering educators with a new user-friendly storytelling medium to create their own virtual field trips (1128851)
Melanie Narish1, Sina Kirk2, Jessica L Swann3, Geoffrey Bruce3, Diana Hunsley3, Chris Mead3, Ariel D Anbar4, Thomas Rauscher5 and Christoph Stummer5, (1)Center for Education Through Exploration, ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Center for Education Through Exploration, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Arizona State University, Center for Education Through Exploration, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (4)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, (5)Garden Gnome Software, Vienna, Austria
Easing Obstacles to Teaching Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data Science: ASF OpenSARlab (1131125)
Alex Lewandowski1, Franz Josef Meyer2, Eric Lundell3, Sargent Shriver3, Thomas Andrew Logan1 and Rui Kawahara3, (1)Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (3)Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, United States
RamSat: A mentor's view of STEM success built on NASA's Cubesat Launch Initiative (1133626)
Peter E Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Melissa R Allen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Ian Goethert, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States and The RamSat Mentors Team
GLOBE Observer’s Earth System Explorers: A Scalable Virtual Internship Model to Engage Emerging Scientists in Open-Source Science (1138453)
Russanne Low1, Peder Nelson2, Cassie Soeffing1, Andrew Clark3, Erika Podest4, Faguni Gupta5, Holly Cho6, Heather A Fischer7 and David C Gosselin8, (1)Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (3)Institute for Global Evironmental Strategies, Arlington, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Department of Physics, Davis, United States, (6)Oregon State University, Corvalis, United States, (7)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (8)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
Engaging Your World: Youth Creation of Virtual Learning Experiences (1154934)
Rachel Cane Wolf1, Doris Chin2, Kristen Blair2 and Ryan Petterson3, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (3)Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Fate of the Plates: A virtual exploration of the dynamics of Earth’s interior and plate tectonics (1165180)
Jessica L Swann1, Leon Manfredi2, Siobhan Sackey3, Miashi Brunkhorst3, Diana Hunsley1, Chris Mead1, Ariel D Anbar4 and A Joseph John Tamer1, (1)Arizona State University, Center for Education Through Exploration, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (3)Arizona State University, Center for Education Through Exploration, Tempe, United States, (4)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Teens, Researchers, and Educators Developing Technologies to Investigate Artificial Light at Night (1175564)
Kelly Borden1, Ken Walczak1, Cynthia Tarr1, Lauren Wisbrock2 and Jesus Garcia1, (1)Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)Adler Planetarium, Chicago, United States
WorldWide Telescope in OpenSpace: Placing Exploration in Context (1178482)
Rosamond Joyce Kinzler1, Carter Emmart1, Alexander Bock2, Ylva Selling3, Ester Lindgren4, Malin Ejdbo4, Micah Acinapura1, Megan Villa1 and Vivian Trakinski1, (1)American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States, (2)Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, (3)New York University, New York, United States, (4)Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden
Tool and Asset Development for Occultation Visualization within OpenSpace Planetarium Software (1182209)
Benjamin Miller1, John M. Keller2, Micah Acinapura3 and Carter Emmart3, (1)Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, Boulder, United States, (3)American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States
Using Augmented and Virtual Reality to Create a More Inclusive Use of Color in the Geosciences and Other Fields (1197614)
Sergio Bernardes, Center for Geospatial Research - University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Allison Howard, University of Georgia, Department of Psychology, Athens, United States and Ethan Couey, Center for Geospatial Research, Athens, United States
