Norman —
The Oklahoma NASA Space Grant Consortium hosted their 16th Annual Summer Teacher Institute: Mission To Planet Earth this year from June 1-1 at the University of Oklahoma’s Norman campus. Sixteen teachers from Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas were selected to take part in this opportunity. The participants included pre-service and in-service teachers. The participating educators were Dustin Bennett (Taloga), Taloga Public Schools; Vickie Cantrell (Lawton), Pre-service from Cameron University; Ashley Clark (Whitesboro, Texas), Pre-service from Southeastern Oklahoma State Univesity; Elizabeth Conrad (Broken Arrow), Rhoades Elementary in Broken Arrow; Lawrence De Marchi (Norman), Santa Fe South Middle School in Oklahoma City; Rosa Denton (Ada), Pre-service from East Central University; Lorraine De Sivo (Durant), pre-service from Southeastern Oklahoma State University; Gerard Hamilton (Garden City, Kan.), Holcomb High School in Holcomb, Kan.; Lynda Huntley (Lawton), Pre-service from Cameron University; Rogena Mc Clain (Eufaula), Pershing Elementary in Muskogee; Matthew Morris (Caddo), Pre-service from Southeastern Oklahoma State Univeristy; Lianna Mueller (Meno), Pre-service from Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Christina Prather (Mannford), Olive Public Schools; Kallene Ridley (Haskell), Haskell Public Schools; Sylvia Stuckey (Kingston,), Pre-service from Southeastern Oklahoma State University; and Christy Vavra (Wichita, Kan.), Haysville West Middle School in Haysville, Kan.
Each teacher received a fellowship of about $1,800 (which covered all costs of the institute including hotel, meals, materials, supplies for the classroom, etc.) and a $250 stipend for attending. Participants were immersed in hands-on aerospace activities which covered the topics of rocketry experiments, model rocketry, aviation, geology, topographical maps, living and working in space, remote sensing, and more. The teachers also received first-hand information from University professors with NASA research grants about the possibility of bug matter on Mars and water on Mars. Participants attended ground school for an entire day and then received thirty minutes of flight time with an instructor in a University-owned aircraft. These teachers are now ready to “fly” off this school year and help their students “reach for the stars” with new and innovative ideas that will not only help prepare their students for state testing, but prepare them for a future in math and science fields.
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