JPL CREW TO ALIGHT FOR SCHOOL PROGRAM.Byline: Erik Nelson Staff Writer L.A.'s BEST is getting a taste of the right stuff today as 40 space experts from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. will teach children at 36 schools served by the after-school program. ``Sharing space science knowledge is part of what NASA's job is,'' said Richard Shope, education and public outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. coordinator for JPL's Outer Planets Program. The space science experts will teach children about everything from planet formation and the Cassini probe's Jupiter exploration to how sound waves and light waves work. Of the 36 schools involved in the space education program, 19 are in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . ``I'll be leading presentations about how we explore the outer planets, like Europa (a moon of Jupiter) and Pluto,'' Shope said. ``We'll build a spacecraft spacecraft Vehicle designed to operate, with or without a crew, in a controlled flight pattern above Earth's lower atmosphere. Since streamlining is not needed in the high vacuum of this environment, a spacecraft's shape is designed according to its mission (see out of them, out of the children; one will be a camera, one will be an antenna, and so on.'' The program started last April with 23 JPL (language) JPL - JAM Programming Language. experts visiting some of the after-school sites served by L.A.'s BEST, which stands for Better Educated Students for Tomorrow. |
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