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Aeronautic and Space Administration
The Center will emphasize NASA’ s Goal 6—Education.
- Consistent with Objective 6.1 Elementary and Secondary Participation,
the Center will provide instructional and enrichment activities
for P-12 students and professional development for P-12 teachers
and administrators.
- The Center will focus
on increasing
the Higher Education Capability (Objective 6.2) through strengthening
the student pipeline at TTU and partner community colleges
into STEM disciplines, assisting faculty to apply for research
and
outreach grants, enhancing the pre-service STEM training for
P-12 teachers,
and facilitating research on the teaching and learning of
STEM disciplines.
- TTU is geographically poised to address the
Underrepresented
and Underserved Participation (Objective 6.3) concerns
of NASA. The region to be served is rural, poor, and undereducated.
- e-Education (Objective 6.4) will be a cooperative effort
with
the TTU Institute
for Technological Scholarship and will utilize Internet
II as well as a regional fiber backbone.
- Informal education
(Objective 7.1)
will be a component of year-round programming.
- Earth and
space
sciences (Science) and biology, chemistry
and physics (Exploration) will be housed in two learning studios.
The
Early Childhood
learning
studio will utilize NASA for Kids materials
and
hands-on play with objects and materials. The fourth studio
will feature interdisciplinary
and mathematics study.
- The Center will host NASA exhibits, showcase
NASA scientists’ and
TTU faculty research in NASA Research Areas, particularly those
targeted by the Marshall Space Flight Center, engage in collaborative
outreach projects with NASA, and link NASA with the schools and
communities of the rural Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee.
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