HELP WANTED: Students Need Community Connection to Nuclear Physicists/Chemists

I have two extremely passionate students that are very interested in working with fusion/nuclear processes. Do we have anyone within our community partners that can help out, counsel, or take these students under their wing for each student’s passion project.

- Dr. Clapp (STEM School Highlands Ranch)

Sure! No problem!

Thanks to engineers at Lockheed Martin, these request are granted.

How about an ethical dilemma for students in the business class to discuss?

Joe and Camille (LM engineers) found real-world answers and a network of subject matter experts willing to inspire learning in everything from ethics in business to nuclear fusion processes.

Equally generous was Lockheed Martin engineer Sue Linch’s Virtual PLC (professional learning community) for teachers.

March 11, 2020

4:30 pm

Lockheed Martin Presenter: Sue Linch
Janus Program Mechanical Lead, Deep Space Exploration

Janus is a pair of microsatellites traveling to two binary asteroid systems. This program is part of the new SIMPLEx class of missions funded by NASA and is a partnership between CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin Space.
SIMPLEx missions are basically rideshares on a much larger mission and are a unique overhead luggage-sized way to more quickly explore gaps in knowledge of our solar system. They come with their own unique challenges.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/small-satellite-concept-finalists-target-moon-mars-and-beyond
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-cubesat-launch-initiative-celebrates-its-100th-cubesat-mission-deployment
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/lucy-the-first-mission-to-jupiter-s-trojans
https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/

Typically, when I come to schools, I use my most recent missions to talk about ‘what’s new in space exploration’. Depending on the particular teacher/audience, I tailor to whatever your class happens to be learning: space, weather, engineering, materials science, space environments, physics, and spacecraft subsystems and build. I have taught from Kindergarten to High School including virtual Skype classrooms as far away as the state of Washington.

Eventually, with the small satellite tools that are available to universities, I would like to bring my deep space mission experience to a small satellite workshop that can be adapted to different classroom ages. My goal, coming from a rural school in Idaho, is to help students have a dream, face adversity, and to see that it can be achievable in real life.

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The idea of this series is to start connecting teachers with industry partners who are willing to embark on projects with your students. These discussions are to introduce teachers with people at Lockheed Martin who are wanting to work with educators and introduce their students to the world of aerospace and engineering.

Emma Richardson
ECBOCE Distance Learning Coordinator

Overwhelmed in a Good Way

Sue Linch’s Virtual PLC resources for teachers:

https://www.goes-r.gov/mission/news.html

https://www.goes-r.gov/

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk.php?sat=G16

The Life of a Solar Flare https://youtu.be/kyhsBqB2x_Y

SPIDER LIGHTENING https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES-R-Series-Satellites

AIRPLANES AVOID Lightening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxHyIDBx4ds

GLM SEVERE STORMS APRIL 28-29, 2017 https://youtu.be/Uf9C-yr9iaA

SEVERE STORMS IN COLORADO https://youtu.be/mUGw-y4YpME

GLM OVERLAY DATA ON IRMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3JLisAzstw