| Allen Kenitzer Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. (Phone: 301/286-2806) |
Sept. 14, 2000 |
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NASA ENCOURAGES STUDENTS TO BE SCIENTISTS
Press Availability Next Week at South Dakota Indian Reservation
Through a unique educational initiative, NASA is encouraging students at more than 100 high schools across the country – including for the first time at a high school on an Indian reservation –-to become actively involved in gathering, analyzing and distributing satellite data.
You Be the Scientist was initiated by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as an educational outreach program to secondary schools and science centers across the USA. The program uses emerging digital satellite technology to distribute satellite imagery data from NASA and NOAA directly into schools. Teachers are using the satellite data in science, environmental, technology, geography and social studies curricula.
On September 21, 2000, a team from NASA Goddard will demonstrate the "You be the Scientist" program for teachers and students at the Red Cloud High School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. This will mark the first deployment of this innovative science and technology project at a Native American Indian Reservation.
The demonstration is open to the news media, and news media interested in covering this event should contact NASA Public Affairs at (301) 286-2806, for directions and further details.