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4/5/94: NASA FOSTERS AEROSPACE EDUCATION IN ARKANSAS
NASA today announced its intent to grant the Arkansas Aerospace
Education Center $500,000 to implement its Technology Industry Resource Project
to help develop enrichment opportunities for secondary school students
statewide in mathematics, applied sciences and technology.
The new Aerospace Education Center is a unique collaboration of public
and private interests to create a model education center, employing the latest
teaching methods oriented to aerospace technologies. The center will include
the Arkansas High Technology Training Center, an aerospace museum, a public
library and an IMAX theater.
Students from across the state will experience new and challenging
assignments in their classrooms and in the center's classrooms, in the museum,
at the IMAX theater and in work related projects provided by partners in
business and industry.
The Aerospace Education Center supports the nation's education goals
and the education reform movement. Recent legislation, "Goals 2000," was
passed by Congress to establish the nation's education goals.
"NASA has been a supporter of the nation's education reform initiative,
and this project will further the agency's efforts to support education
reform," said Frank Owens, Director of NASA's Education Division, Headquarters,
Washington, D.C.
"The Technology Industry Resource Project that NASA is supporting
addresses two priorities of the reform effort. The first is training for high
technology careers and the second is supporting life-long learning," said
Owens.
Technology Industry Resource Project
The Technology Industry Resource Project offers high school students
the opportunity to learn about mathematics, applied sciences and technology
through direct, "real world" experiences.
The goal is to interest and involve students in applied technology
programs using these "real world" experiences and curriculum enhancement to
interest students in pursuing high-technology career opportunities.
High school students will be offered field trips to and apprenticeships
with industry and students will learn from guest lectures and "visiting
scientists" who will visit individual schools and lecture at the center.
The grant also will be used to create curriculum enhancement modules to
help teachers present applied science programs in the classroom in an
interesting and effective manner. These materials will include workbooks,
videos, computer simulations, working models and multimedia presentations.
These support materials will provide model curriculum enhancements that can be
duplicated for use in classrooms nationwide.
Other print and multimedia materials will be developed for use by
teachers as preparation for and follow-up to the center's field trips, lectures
and other aspects of the project.
The Arkansas Aerospace Education Center
The Aerospace Education Center is a public and private partnership for
education to help prepare students for jobs in existing and emerging technology
fields. The center is co-located with the aviation industries at the Little
Rock Regional Airport.
The center is operated by the Arkansas Department of Education
--General Education Division, Vocational Education Division and the Central
Arkansas Library System -- and is supported by several Arkansas colleges and
universities including the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, which is the
lead university in the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium.
In 1993, the National Science Foundation awarded Arkansas a Statewide
Systemic Initiative Grant for science instruction. In conjunction with this
program the Arkansas Department of Higher Education will collaborate with the
center to develop a visiting scientist program to reach all 7th grade students
in Arkansas each year.
The Arkansas Aviation Historical Society is directly involved in
creating and maintaining the Museum of Aviation History and the IMAX Theater.
The Industrial Development Commission is involved with the Arkansas High
Technology Training Center staff to help train future work forces and recruit
high technology companies to Arkansas. The Arkansas Aviation Aerospace
Commission and the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority serve on the
advisory board appointed by the Governor.
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■ Via FTL BBS (404-292-8761) and NASA Spacelink (205-895-0028)