{"id":8122,"date":"2014-06-17T01:49:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T05:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2014-06-17T01:49:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T05:49:34","slug":"students-and-educators-to-experience-rocket-week-at-nasa-wallops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8122","title":{"rendered":"Students and educators to experience rocket week at NASA Wallops"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility<\/a>\u00a0on the Eastern Shore in Virginia will host the seventh RockOn!<\/a> workshop, which starts this Saturday with over 60\u00a0student and faculty rocketeers participating. It will finish with a sounding rocket launch on\u00a0Thursday, \u00a0June 26th : \u00a0Students and educators visit Virginia’s Eastern Shore to launch rocket – DCNewsRoom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday there will also start\u00a0the week long\u00a0Wallops Rocket Academy for Teachers (WRATs). Here is a NASA posting about both\u00a0programs:<\/p>\n

Rocket Week Launches June 21 at
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Students and educators from across the United States will become “rocket scientists” during two workshops at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia this month.<\/p>\n

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RockOn Launch from June 20, 2013 with students looking on.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The seventh annual RockOn! workshop, conducted in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia, will provide 61 community college and university students and instructors the opportunity to learn how to build a scientific payload for a suborbital rocket flight.\u00a0 This workshop is June 21\u201326.<\/p>\n

During the fourth annual Wallops Rocket Academy for Teachers (WRATs), June 23\u201327, 20 high school educators will receive instruction on the physics and math behind rocket flight and how to incorporate what they learn into classroom curriculum.<\/p>\n

“These two workshops provide students and faculty the opportunity to expand their education,” said Joyce Winterton, Wallops senior advisor for education and leadership development. “It’s a hands-on learning experience that will prepare participating students for their future careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and provide the educators with information to expand opportunities for students in the classroom.”<\/p>\n

During RockOn!, participants will learn the basics of experiment design including programming and electronics.\u00a0 The students will construct experiments to measure acceleration, spin rate, radiation, humidity, pressure and temperature during a rocket flight.<\/p>\n

Their experiments, built in only three days, will then be incorporated into a rocket payload for launch on a Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket at 5:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 26. After flying to nearly 70 miles in altitude, the payload carrying the experiments will land in the Atlantic Ocean where it will be recovered. The participants are expected to have their experiments in hand later in the day to begin data analysis.<\/p>\n

In addition to the RockOn! experiments, a group of more complex experiments from the RockSat-C program also will be flying on the sounding rocket. These experiments are developed by students, many of whom have participated in a previous RockOn! workshop, from Mitchell Community College, Statesville, North Carolina; West Virginia University, Morgantown; Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin; Temple University, Philadelphia; and Howard University in Washington.<\/p>\n

About 50 students and instructors participating in RockSat-C will come to Wallops on Friday, June 20 to begin their final experiment integration and to witness the launch.<\/p>\n

“The RockOn! and RockSat-C programs are part of an effort to expand students’ skills in developing experiments for spaceflight,” said Chris Koehler, director of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.” These two programs, coupled with RockSat-X, which requires an even more advanced skillset, will help prepare these students for future careers in the aerospace industry and at NASA.”<\/p>\n

In addition, more than 100 small cubes carrying experiments developed by pre-college students will launch with RockSat-C as part of the Cubes in Space program. Experiments vary from measuring changes in the electromagnetic field as the experiment moves through the ionosphere to determine whether the nano-computers would survive spaceflight,\u00a0to observing the changes to the properties of a marshmallow as a result of the intense g-force of the launch. Cubes in Space is a partnership between Rubik Learning Initiative, idoodlesoftware inc. and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.<\/p>\n

During WRATS, participants will receive instruction from Wallops engineers on the basics of rocketry, including Newton\u2019s Laws, electronic fundamentals, drag and propulsion. This instruction will be applied to hands-on learning activities, including building and launching model rockets. The WRATS participants also will attend the RockOn! launch on June 26.<\/p>\n

“Rocket Week is designed to inspire and increase the participants’ interest in STEM and prepare the students for their careers,” said Phil Eberspeaker, chief of the NASA Sounding Rocket Programs Office at Wallops. \u00a0“Through these programs, the participants will experience what it takes to be a rocket scientist.”<\/p>\n

The RockOn! and WRATS workshops are supported by the NASA Sounding Rocket Program. RockOn! also is supported by NASA’s Office of Education and the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program.<\/p>\n

The June 26 launch will be shown live on Ustream beginning at 4:30 a.m. at \u00a0www.ustream.tv\/channel\/nasa-tv-wallops<\/a><\/p>\n

The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will open at 4:30 a.m. for viewing the launch, which is predicted to be visible only in the Wallops area.<\/p>\n

For more information about the WRATS programs, visit:\u00a0education.wff.nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information on RockOn! and RockSat, visit: \u00a0spacegrant.colorado.edu\/national-programs\/rockon-2014-home<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information about NASA’s education programs visit: \u00a0www.nasa.gov\/education<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility\u00a0on the Eastern Shore in Virginia will host the seventh RockOn! workshop, which starts this Saturday with over 60\u00a0student and faculty rocketeers participating. It will finish with a sounding rocket launch on\u00a0Thursday, \u00a0June 26th : \u00a0Students and educators visit Virginia’s Eastern Shore to launch rocket – DCNewsRoom. 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