Astronaut Helps Students Build and Launch Rockets

NEWS RELEASE # 32
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 18, 2010

WHAT: Astronaut Helps Students Build and Launch Rockets
WHEN: November 19, 9:50 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Crawford and Montview elementary schools (see below)

Astronaut Helps Students Build and Launch Rockets

Colorado native and NASA astronaut, Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger will teach third graders at Crawford and Montview elementary schools about life in space. The students will build and launch rockets together, as part of a free lesson series available to teachers through Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum (WOTR).

Metcalf-Lindenburger spent more than 15 days in space this year. Tomorrow, she will share her first-hand astronaut experiences and help APS students build and launch their own rockets. The students will use trackers to estimate height and distance.

Media is welcome to attend either event:

Crawford Elementary School                                Montview Elementary School
1600 Florence St.                                                    2055 Moline St.
Aurora, CO 80010                                                    Aurora, CO 80010               
9:50 a.m.                                                                    1:00 p.m.

The class also is part of WOTR’s Wings Aerospace Program (WASP), an eight-unit lesson series that motivates elementary and middle school student achievement in science and math using the excitement of space. WOTR provides the training and course materials to area teachers at no cost. For more information about the program, visit http://www.wingsmuseum.org/education.

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Paula Hans at 303-326-2755 for more information

 APS Communication Department
Georgia Durán, Chief Communication Officer
303-365-7805
FAX: 303-326-1939
e-mail: grduran@aps.k12.co.us
http://www.aps.k12.co.us/communications