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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 9ll09 PHONE (8l8) 354-50ll
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NASA astronaut Anthony England will tell more than 200
teachers how the U.S. space station can help classroom
education at a day-long meeting on "Communications in
Education" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on May 2l.
England will be one of a series of experts in advanced
communications technology to appear at the meeting. Experts
from the California Department of Education will explain
telecommunications, school emergency communications, remotely
controlled communications, and how ham radio operators can be
used by teachers to bring communications technology into the
classroom.
The teachers will also hear how they can get funding for
communications equipment in the classroom.
Dr. Gil Yanow of JPL said that there are a variety of
ways teachers can use radio and other communications media as
classroom aids. "What better way for students to study
Alaska than to talk by radio to people in Alaska? A class
can study civics by talking, via radio, to its elected
representatives in Washington, D.C."
JPL's Amateur Radio Club will demonstrate a variety of
communications technologies to the teachers. And fifth- and
sixth-grade students from Glenoaks Elementary School and
îLuther Burbank Elementary School will show how they use
satellite communications to talk to "air pals" in Argentina,
Australia and Israel.
The day-long program is sponsored by Yaesu U.S.A., a
communications company, and JPL's Amateur Radio Club.
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