Satellites & Education Conference XXIX

At-A-Glance

Friday, August 5, 2016

Additional Offering / 9:00 am Friday - 5 pm Friday, plus 9 am Saturday - Noon = GLOBE Training for Teachers, Peter Falcon, JPL / KH C2091
8:00 am / Registration, Continental Breakfast, Exhibits / U-SU
9:00-10:30 am / Opening Session / U-SU
LA Room
Welcome: Dr. Cheryl Ney, Dean, Charter College of Education
and Mark McKay, President, Satellite Educators Association
Keynote Speaker: Tamitha Skov, Aerospace Corp, Space Weather and its Effects in Our Modern World
10:45-11:45 a
Concurrent Session 1 /

Anthony Shao, Space Systems Engineer at Microcosm, Inc, Satellites 101 - Short Course

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KH D2071

Robert A. Black, Author of books for middle school students, Using Fiction to Teach Math and Science

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KH D2075

12:00-1:15 pm /

Lunch & Exhibits

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LA Room

Keynote Speaker: Col. Gerard Gleckel, US Air Force, STEM in the Air Force

1:30-5:00 pm
Concurrent Workshop 1 / John Moore, Pete Dorofy, and Vicky Gorman, Institute for Earth Observations at Palmyra Cove, GeoSTEM Workshop
(This workshop has two breaks: 2:30-2:45 and 3:45-4:00 pm.) /

KH C2089 Computer Lab

1:30-2:30 pm
Concurrent Session 2 / Brian Hagerty, President, Western Region IEEE, IEEE's BRAIN Initiative /

KH D2075

2:45-3:45 pm
Concurrent Session 3 /

John Moore, Pete Dorofy, Vicky Gorman Workshop continues

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KH C2089

Robert Trout, NASA Solar System Ambassador, "New Horizons" JPL Mission to Pluto / KH D2075
4:00-5:00 pm
Concurrent Session 4 / John Moore, Pete Dorofy, Vicky Gorman Workshop continues / KH C2089
Pete Arvedson, SEA Web Designer, More Lessons from the Sky: the SEA Lesson Plan Library Online / KH D2075
5:15 pm / EXHIBITS! Wine & Cheese Reception
Research Poster Session / Montebello
6:00 pm / Conference Banquet Dinner / LA Room
Keynote Speaker: Tracy Drain, NASA-JPL Deputy Chief Engineer, Unlocking the Mysteries of Jupiter with Juno

Saturday, August 6, 2016

GLOBE Training continues in KH C2091

8:00 am / Registration, Continental Breakfast, Exhibits / U-SU
9 am - Noon / GLOBE Training continues with Peter Falcon, JPL / KH C2091
8:30-9:30 am
Session 5 / Steve Mills, Earth Station Lab, an Educational Computer Application Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data to Teach the Earth Sciences / KH D2075
Deanna Nash & Aaron Trefler, NASA DIRECT-STEM, Observations: Water Storage & Precipitation / KH D2076

Claudia Seidel & Beatriz Aguilar, NASA DIRECT-STEM, Satellite Products for H2O Vapor & Precipitation

9:45-10:45 am
Concurrent Session 6 / Paula Arvedson, Professor, Integrated STEM, Linked Learning & Global Climate with Satellite Data /

KH D2075

Tania Torres & Alissa Magaña, NOAA-CREST West, Land Use Change & Urban Heat Islands / KH D2076
11:00am-noon
Session 7 / Ron Gird, National Weather Service, NOAA's Young Meteorologist Program / KH D2075
Arianna Brown, NASA DIRECT-STEM, Satellite Data to Identify Active Galaxies / KH D2076
Jonathan Barnes, NASA DIRECT-STEM, Circumstellar Matter in Young & Dying Stars
12:15-1:15 pm / Lunch and Exhibits / U-SU
LA Room
Keynote Speaker: Robert A. Black, Engineer and Author, Southern California's Hidden Space History
1:30-2:30 pm
Session 8 / Seth Potter, Chapter President of the National Space Society, Beam Forming for Power and Propulsion / KH D2075
Hengchun Ye, Jingjing Li, & Barry Martinez, NASA DIRECT-STEM, Using NASA's GIOVANNI for Visualization and Research / KH D2076
Lizxandra Flores Rivera, NASA DIRECT-STEM, Chemistry in Protostars
2:45-4:00 pm
Plenary / Closing Plenary Session, Mark McKay, SEA President / Lecture Hall 2
M.Y. S.P.A.C.E. Research Report, Middle & High School Research Team

EXHIBITORS

NOAA

NASA

Satellite Educators Association

Aerospace Corporation

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

National Space Society

Royal Fireworks Publishing

Northrop Grumman

A-MAN, Inc. International STEM Learning Center

Intel Computer Clubhouse

GeoSTEM Alliance

COSMOS Mission Operations Network (with Sparky the Robot Rover)