Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy
Cool beans! I figured it out! Here is my first rough presentation... I will need to tweak it still.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Cub Scout Presentation
So, I had my first space presentation yesterday. I think that it went well. There were about 50 people there, including adults. The kids ranged in age from first to fifth grades. I think that they enjoyed the powerpoint. I was amazed how much some of them knew! I had a couple boys that could answer almost every question I asked! Nice! I was glad it was well recieved, and perhaps I can get a few more under my belt soon.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
More...
So nice to have GOOD PR for our school...
"Heather Hunt wears a NASA flight suite as she leads her class up the stairs of North Middle School in Lima. Heather attended a NASA Space Camp in Alabama this summer and will be implementing her experience to this year's curriculum."
First day!!
Wow, where to start! The school year has started already. Where did my summer go? It sure flew by!
I started our first day of school with the NASA suit on outside the front of our school. I sure got funny looks, and a little media coverage. The local TV station was here as well as our newspaper. COOL!
I also have a great bulletin board up, and am planning my first public 'seminar' for a local Boy Scout group in September!
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Celebration and Looking Forward
In celebration and looking towards the future, I felt I should share this clip. Very interesting and cool!
The Constellation Program
The Constellation Program
Thursday, July 9, 2009
I am still 'spacey'!
Wow, I still am scratching my head and wondering if I imagined my week in Huntsville. I am trying to share my story with anyone who will listen. Even the gentleman at the Y was hearing the story. Before it was said and done, I had a circle of people listening the other day.
I also made the local paper. They did a really nice job with it!
Jul 09, 2009
Teacher 'spaces out' for a week
By SARA ARTHURS
Staff Writer
Heather Hunt couldn't believe she had been selected to participate in Space Camp. Now, she's preparing to use what she learned there to help her students better grasp science concepts.
Hunt, a resident of Findlay, teaches special education classes at Lima North Middle School in Lima.
Hunt attended through the Honeywell Educators at Space Academy, a program in which the Honeywell company provides scholarships for teachers to attend Space Camp at the education department of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Alabama.
Hunt was one of about 400 teachers selected to attend from around the world. She said she enjoyed meeting the teachers from other countries.
Among her tasks were a simulated parachute jump, helicopter crash and space shuttle mission.
"I am afraid of heights and I get carsick, so it was a big challenge for me to do these things," Hunt said.
Hunt particularly liked the shuttle mission.
"It was the coolest thing," she said.
There were 20 people in her group, and each was given a job to do. One person might be mission control, another the commander of a shuttle and a third a payload specialist. The people in mission control talked the others through their tasks. For example, the person flying the shuttle had to flip switches on and off in the correct order, Hunt said.
Hunt's task was to do a space walk and repair a satellite. Once the shuttle got into orbit, she was strapped into a machine that simulates flying in space. The machine moved her around, so she had to be tethered to the satellite she was fixing.
"Otherwise, you would float away from it," she said.
She and her fellow "astronauts" wore blue space suits. Hunt said she had hoped to wear the traditional white space suit, but they were being disinfected because some children who had gone to Space Camp were ill.
In a second shuttle mission, Hunt's job was to do experiments on the space station, testing soil from Mars to find out the acidity and what could grow there.
Hunt also liked the Multi-Axis Trainer.
"It's like a gyroscope, and it spins you so you can feel what it would be like to tumble into the atmosphere," she said.
Another task was doing a simulated space walk, in which Hunt had to go out and fix a telescope. She said it took about 45 minutes.
On her blog, Hunt refers to herself as "Space Cadet Hunt."
Hunt spent a week at Space Camp, and said a highlight was getting to meet astronauts while there.
Hunt never expected to get to go the camp. She received an e-mail at school and was interested but didn't think about it afterward.
"I applied on a whim, and I forgot about it," she said.
She received a letter in the mail saying she had been selected, and said her surprised response made her husband wonder what was going on.
Hunt went to her doctor to get a motion sickness patch and said she did not get sick during the camp.
"I participated in everything, no matter what," she said.
One particularly scary task was jumping off a 42-foot tower in a simulated parachute jump. Hunt also had to go through a simulated helicopter crash.
Hunt said she has always been interested in watching the space shuttle take off, but now she has a better understanding of the science behind it, and hopes to share it with her students.
"I hope it will further their quest for wanting to learn about space... . I hope that my excitement will get the kids excited," she said.
Science studied in space comes back to help scientists on Earth, she said.
Hunt said that while her classes cover several different subjects, science is one of them and she is always looking for new ways to teach it and new training.
She said Space Camp was one of the best such trainings she's had.
"It was just so incredible," she said. "Next to getting married, I think it probably was the coolest experience I've ever had."
The experience will carry over into her classroom, since she can share what she has learned with her students.
Along with the tasks like the shuttle simulation, there was also a lot of classroom instruction in which the Space Camp attendees learned some of the science behind what they were doing.
Hunt learned that the difference in temperature between the surface and the atmosphere of Mars is such that, if a person were to stand there, their feet would be warm enough to wear flip-flops but their head cool enough they'd need a hat.
Hunt said it's important for teachers to know about science so they can pass it on to their students.
"Our next astronauts are now in the fourth to eighth grade," she said. "They want to go back to the moon in 2020 and they want to go to Mars in 2030."
Even for those who can't go into space, that sense of adventure can translate into other areas of life, she said.
"Explore the world around you, because you never know what you're going to find.... If you don't explore, you don't learn anything new," she said.
Arthurs: (419) 427-8494
Send an e-mail to Sara Arthurs
I also made the local paper. They did a really nice job with it!
Jul 09, 2009
Teacher 'spaces out' for a week
By SARA ARTHURS
Staff Writer
Heather Hunt couldn't believe she had been selected to participate in Space Camp. Now, she's preparing to use what she learned there to help her students better grasp science concepts.
Hunt, a resident of Findlay, teaches special education classes at Lima North Middle School in Lima.
Hunt attended through the Honeywell Educators at Space Academy, a program in which the Honeywell company provides scholarships for teachers to attend Space Camp at the education department of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Alabama.
Hunt was one of about 400 teachers selected to attend from around the world. She said she enjoyed meeting the teachers from other countries.
Among her tasks were a simulated parachute jump, helicopter crash and space shuttle mission.
"I am afraid of heights and I get carsick, so it was a big challenge for me to do these things," Hunt said.
Hunt particularly liked the shuttle mission.
"It was the coolest thing," she said.
There were 20 people in her group, and each was given a job to do. One person might be mission control, another the commander of a shuttle and a third a payload specialist. The people in mission control talked the others through their tasks. For example, the person flying the shuttle had to flip switches on and off in the correct order, Hunt said.
Hunt's task was to do a space walk and repair a satellite. Once the shuttle got into orbit, she was strapped into a machine that simulates flying in space. The machine moved her around, so she had to be tethered to the satellite she was fixing.
"Otherwise, you would float away from it," she said.
She and her fellow "astronauts" wore blue space suits. Hunt said she had hoped to wear the traditional white space suit, but they were being disinfected because some children who had gone to Space Camp were ill.
In a second shuttle mission, Hunt's job was to do experiments on the space station, testing soil from Mars to find out the acidity and what could grow there.
Hunt also liked the Multi-Axis Trainer.
"It's like a gyroscope, and it spins you so you can feel what it would be like to tumble into the atmosphere," she said.
Another task was doing a simulated space walk, in which Hunt had to go out and fix a telescope. She said it took about 45 minutes.
On her blog, Hunt refers to herself as "Space Cadet Hunt."
Hunt spent a week at Space Camp, and said a highlight was getting to meet astronauts while there.
Hunt never expected to get to go the camp. She received an e-mail at school and was interested but didn't think about it afterward.
"I applied on a whim, and I forgot about it," she said.
She received a letter in the mail saying she had been selected, and said her surprised response made her husband wonder what was going on.
Hunt went to her doctor to get a motion sickness patch and said she did not get sick during the camp.
"I participated in everything, no matter what," she said.
One particularly scary task was jumping off a 42-foot tower in a simulated parachute jump. Hunt also had to go through a simulated helicopter crash.
Hunt said she has always been interested in watching the space shuttle take off, but now she has a better understanding of the science behind it, and hopes to share it with her students.
"I hope it will further their quest for wanting to learn about space... . I hope that my excitement will get the kids excited," she said.
Science studied in space comes back to help scientists on Earth, she said.
Hunt said that while her classes cover several different subjects, science is one of them and she is always looking for new ways to teach it and new training.
She said Space Camp was one of the best such trainings she's had.
"It was just so incredible," she said. "Next to getting married, I think it probably was the coolest experience I've ever had."
The experience will carry over into her classroom, since she can share what she has learned with her students.
Along with the tasks like the shuttle simulation, there was also a lot of classroom instruction in which the Space Camp attendees learned some of the science behind what they were doing.
Hunt learned that the difference in temperature between the surface and the atmosphere of Mars is such that, if a person were to stand there, their feet would be warm enough to wear flip-flops but their head cool enough they'd need a hat.
Hunt said it's important for teachers to know about science so they can pass it on to their students.
"Our next astronauts are now in the fourth to eighth grade," she said. "They want to go back to the moon in 2020 and they want to go to Mars in 2030."
Even for those who can't go into space, that sense of adventure can translate into other areas of life, she said.
"Explore the world around you, because you never know what you're going to find.... If you don't explore, you don't learn anything new," she said.
Arthurs: (419) 427-8494
Send an e-mail to Sara Arthurs
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Basic Life at Space Camp
I must thank HONEYWELL from the bottom of my heart for the wonderful opportunity that I was given to come to camp. They really took great care of us. I also heard that they even footed the bill to give us better food than the regular campers at the U. S. Space and Rocket Center.
Breakfast was served around 7:30 every day. We got up from our dorm room and took the bus over to the facility. Breakfast always had scrambled eggs, biscuits and fruit. Some days we had bacon, others sausage. Cereal was generally there is well. I had oatmeal with butter on it for the first time too (I could not help but think of Paula Deen! It must be a southern thing!)
Lunches were burgers, or some sort of sandwich. We had chips, more fruit and a salad bar available.
Dinners were great. We had what they called BBQ one night (pulled pork ummm!) Pizza, fajitas, Italian and whatnot. The food was great.
As I mentioned before, we stayed at the University of Alabama Huntsville. There were 4 of us in a suite and we each had our own room. The beds were not the greatest by adult standards, but they were serviceable. We shared a bathroom and a shower with one other person and the lounge with the other 3 suite mates.
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