Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).\u00a0 What an incredible place!!\u00a0 Excellent presentations with fun and meaningful examples of how to teach students about space, the oceans, satellites, etc… while having a great time.\u00a0 The speakers were some of the top scientists in their fields.\u00a0 We were afforded the privilege of sitting in one of NASA’s control rooms.\u00a0 We also were able to see the ‘still in construction’ next generation Mars rover, Curiosity.\u00a0 It will be about 2 or 3 times the size of the current Mars landing rovers.\u00a0 It will also be deployed on Mars with a propulsion system instead of with the air bags that were used on the previous rover mission.\u00a0 The new rover will be to massive and would ‘pop’ the air bags.\u00a0 The video enactment looks like a sci-fi movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We also learned about research taking place on Antarctica.\u00a0 Again, another lesson on how data is being collected with satellite technology.\u00a0 The speaker, Dr. Will Hobbes, a postdoctoral researcher studying Ocean Circulation, has never been to Antarctica but is still able to gather data and share his valuable finding with the rest of us.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next two presenters were the scientist, Kevin Hussey, and engineer, Eric (and I don’t have his last name and hope that one of my colleagues will supply that for us) that our students probably wish they could be.\u00a0 They showed us how to use 3-D and animation in the classroom. Much fun with excellent information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).\u00a0 What an incredible place!!\u00a0 Excellent presentations with fun and meaningful examples of how to teach students about space, the oceans, satellites, etc… while having a great time.\u00a0 The speakers were some of the top scientists in their fields.\u00a0 We were afforded the privilege of sitting in one of NASA’s control rooms.\u00a0… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 14:29:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cosee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cosee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cosee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cosee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cosee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cosee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cosee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cosee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cosee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cosee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}