Hey,<br><br> FYI. This is an opportunity for people who are interested in space or do space-related work to help out with some space education of some 8th graders. Details below. <br><br> - Ethan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Hewitt, David</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:David.Hewitt@dynetics.com">David.Hewitt@dynetics.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:07 AM<br>
Subject: FW: Expert Help for Space Education Opportunity<br>To: Dan Anderson <<a href="mailto:danderson@mcaulifferegional.org">danderson@mcaulifferegional.org</a>><br><br><br><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US">
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hello,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I am sending this message out to folks that I talked with at the last HAL5 meeting two weeks ago and a few other space folks that may be interested regarding an opportunity for helping out with some space education for a group of 8<sup>th</sup> graders at the Christa McAuliffe Regional School in Framingham, MA. In honor of Christa McAuliffe and the rest of the crew of the Challenger who perished nearly 25 years ago, teacher Dan Anderson is doing a project with a group of 8<sup>th</sup> graders to learn as much as they can about cutting edge things going on today in the space business. As part of that, the students want to interview professionals in the space business about the cutting edge things they do. After these interviews, the students will give presentations on January 27 at Framingham State College.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The interviews are scheduled to be next week, availabilities being Dec 20 through the 23<sup>rd</sup>. If anyone is interested in participating, please reply to myself and Dan Anderson so that logistics can be set up. These interviews would be short through teleconference, videoconference or Skype. This is a great opportunity to help keep kids excited about math, science and engineering; a very worthy cause. I hope that many of you will be able to take the time to help out. Please read below and look at the attachments for more details. Of course, if you see the schedule below, I have already fumbled a little bit, I have been incredibly busy these last few weeks. That shouldn’t matter though, they are still looking for people to talk with.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">David J. Hewitt</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Propulsion Engineer</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Dan Anderson [mailto:<a href="mailto:danderson@mcaulifferegional.org" target="_blank">danderson@mcaulifferegional.org</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> Hewitt, David<br><b>Subject:</b> Expert Help</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dear David,<br> <br>It was great to connect with you today. I appreciate any time and the effort you put in to assist me on this quest for experts. It is also awesome that you yourself are so willing to work with kids. I would be so honored to have you be part of this project if you can fit it in your schedule. I know your busy so I totally understand if you can't. If you can forward any information in this e-mail to anyone you know who can help please do so. I have attached a document that summarizes this project and describes how experts can specifically help us out. This document should clarify some questions you may still have about what this space investigation is all about. </p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The kids are just doing some background research work about space science and new discoveries. The focus is quite vast and does not need to be only on the Moon or the planets.</p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>The time involvement for the scientist, as it has been explained to me is for a 30 minutes web/telecon interview where kids would have prepared questions to ask the scientist, and then another follow up interview of roughly the same amount of time.</p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Please let the experts and researchers know that they personally can come to this special event that is in Christa McAuliffe's honor. It will take place on January 27th 2010 at Framingham State College in Framingham, MA. The address is as follows:</p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">100 State Street<br>Framingham,Ma 01701</p></div><p><br>They do not have to come to this presentation to help us out but I wanted to personally invite any expert or researcher who agrees to help us out. They might like to see and meet the students present their research.</p>
<p><br>Here are some important dates that I need to meet:</p><p><br>December 10th: I need all participating researchers and experts confirmed as much as possible.</p><p><br>December 16th, and 20th-23rd: Dates of the first contact/interview with the expert or researcher</p>
<p><br>Jan. 3rd to the 7th: Dates of the second possible follow up contact/interview with the expert or researcher</p><p><br> If you still have more questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me directly at 207-577-0155 or by e-mail at <a href="mailto:danderson@mcaulifferegional.org" target="_blank">danderson@mcaulifferegional.org</a>. Thanks again for all your efforts in advance.</p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"> <br>Sincerely,</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dan Anderson</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">8th Grade Science Teacher</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
McAuliffe Regional Charter Public School</p></div></div></div></div><br>