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NASA in North Dakota Day

The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium recently sponsored "NASA in North Dakota Day" at the State Capitol in Bismarck.

Click here to learn more and view photos from this event.

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Eberhardt is a sophomore at North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton where she is majoring in Physics with a minor in Astronomy. She is an honor student who plans to become a high school physics teacher.

She is North Dakota's NASA International Year of Astronomy Student Ambassador.

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About the NDSGC

In 1990 the state of North Dakota received a Space Grant College Capability Enhancement Grant from NASA. The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium has its headquarters at the Department of Space Studies at the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North Dakota.

Mission:

The North Dakota Space Grant Program has continued its well-regarded foci in internet-delivered higher education, education financial assistance all across North Dakota (especially to women and minority students), involvement of tribal colleges, and public outreach activities. This has been done to help achieve the primary goal of NDSGC which is making the education infrastructure in North Dakota more NASA-relevant. >> read more

02-26-09 -The ND Space Grant Consortium will be hosting a first-ever series of space exploration workshops that will be held during the weeks of June 7 and June 14, 2009. These two-day workshops, which will be held in Grand Forks, Fargo, Bismarck, and Dickinson, are designed to provide K-12 teachers will fundamental knowledge across a range of space disciplines.

The goal is to encourage teachers to incorporate this new knowledge into their own courses.

Faculty from the University of North Dakota Department of Space Studies will be educating teachers on topics such as the fundamentals of rocket and satellite operation, designing a spacecraft mission, human physiological and psychological factors in spaceflight, orbital mechanics, and the geology and physics of meteorites, asteroids, and the Sun.

Participants will conduct a group project each day of the workshop to begin utilizing their skills. Teachers will earn one graduate credit upon completion of the workshop. ND Space Grant will also provide a $100 stipend to all participants. To register for the workshop, please go to the following website:
http://educators.und.edu/workshop/?id=TSEI.WORKSHOP

Contact Dr. Paul Hardersen at Hardersen@space.edu or (701) 777-4896 for more information.

02-25-09 - The NDSGC sponsored "NASA in North Dakota Day". Read more and view photos from this event.

02-25-09 - The NDSGC Annual Affiliate Member Meeting will take place on May 11, 2009 at the Radison Hotel in Bismarck, ND, from 9:00 AM - 3:00 pm.

12-26-08 - The Global Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) project invites K-12 teachers and students to participate in an exciting program to use a large radio telescope and to conduct data analysis projects for science classrooms. Information for teachers can be found on this web site: http://www.lewiscenter.org/gavrt/opportunities.php

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