NASA: Thrill of Discovery Workshop

Celebrate NASA’s Year of the Solar System by attending a Thrill of Discovery workshop.

NASA’s Discovery and New Frontiers missions are traveling vast distances to find answers to age-old questions. These robotic spacecraft are celestial detectives, revealing how our solar system formed and evolved — doing brilliant science utilizing cool technologies.

The Thrill of Discovery workshop will be taking place on March 19, 2011, in four locations.

— NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
— NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
— Jackson Middle School Observatory, Champlin, Minn.
— Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.

Events at all four sites will include special speakers, hands-on activities with break-out sessions for K-12 and out-of-school-time educators, and resource packets full of educational resources and goodies.

The Thrill of Discovery is offering a webinar option for those who are unable to attend at one of the workshop sites. The webinar will allow interested parties to watch the speaker presentations in real time. These presentations will be the only portion of the Thrill of Discovery workshop available by webinar.

Participants must register by March 1, 2011. The cost of the workshop is $25. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

For more information, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/discovery/thrill_of_discovery.asp.

Please direct questions about the Thrill of Discovery workshop to Mary Cullen at mcullen@mcrel.org or 303-632-5547.