NASA - NASA Explorer Schools Program Takes Flight

NASA nominates a Vermont Explorer School
North Country Jr. H.S. of Derby, VT in Orleans County.
Only two schools were nominated in New England

VT-NASA Raytheon Synergy Project

Project Overview:
VT-NASA\Raytheon Synergy Project

    ►Vermont Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) joined the Mid-Atlantic
          Synergy Project through an agreement with Maryland Space Grant.
    ► VSGC appointed Joseph (Joe) Chase, a teacher at Essex Jct. High
          School, Essex Jct., VT, Lead Teacher.
    ►Robert Chaffee, Exec. Director, Vermont Mathematics Coalition,
                VSGC affiliate, headed the recruitment and selection of 14 Vermont teachers.
    ►The teachers were selected from all three K-12 levels, 3-6, 7-8, 9-12.
    ►The teachers selected also represented a broad distribution  throughout the State.
    ►Two New Hampshire teachers join VT project through New Hampshire Space Grant funding.

This project was created within Maryland and then widened to other states bordering the Chesapeake Bay as the result of a 2001 Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Funding under this component of the Vermont Space Grant Consortium's workforce development proposal would allow Vermont to participate in the next phase of this project, which will demonstrate that this valuable activity is exportable to watersheds beyond the Chesapeake Bay. GPS equipment will be purchased to allow 14 Vermont K-12 teachers to become involved in the ground truth data collection project. The Vermont State Mathematics Coalition, a VSGC affiliate, will manage the recruitment and selection of participating teachers. These teachers will be trained at Workshops held in Vermont by workshop instructors provided by Maryland Space Grant. The teachers will also receive instructional materials prepared by Maryland on the preparation of lessons to train undergraduate students, teachers, and state and local government staff in the use of digital image processing techniques using MultiSpec and Landsat data readily available via the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic from Space Web site (http://chesapeake.towson.edu). Funding will also cover follow-up activities. A key measure of student learning and performance will be the quantity of the collected data. The Vermont portion is endorsed by Goddard Space Flight Center, which is intimately involved, and the Vermont State Mathematics Coalition.

See  VT-NASA Raytheon SynergyArchive

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