Join host Damon Talley of NASA’s Digital Learning Network, Education Specialist Christopher Blair, and Argentine native and current Kennedy Space Center employee Laura Midulla live from Kennedy Space Center for the prelaunch webcast of the Aquarius Mission. Aquarius is a focused satellite mission to measure global sea surface salinity. NASA will partner with the Argentine space program Comision Nacional De Actividades Especiales, or CONAE, on the Aquarius mission, building on a successful long- standing relationship between NASA and Argentina. Multiple universities and corporate and international partners will be involved in the Aquarius mission.
Tune in to the hourlong webcast on June 8, 2011, at 3 p.m. EDT. Please submit questions to dlinfochannel@gmail.com for a chance to have your question answered during the live webcast!
NASA Summer of Innovation Mini-Grants -- Second Opportunity
The NASA Office of Education is pleased to offer a second opportunity for Summer of Innovation, or SoI, Mini-Grants in partnership with the National Space Grant Foundation. The mini-grant aspect of the SoI enables local organizations to infuse NASA-themed science, technology, engineering and mathematics content and activities to middle school students through existing summer and/or afterschool programs.
Organizations are eligible to apply for up to $2,500 in funding to incorporate SoI content and themes into their programming. Application deadline is June 17, 2011, with an anticipated award announcement date of July 1, 2011.
For eligibility, timeline and application information, please see the SoI Mini-Grant page on the Space Grant Foundation website, which can be found here: http://soi.spacegrant.org/about.
