Space explorers invade D.C. Schools. (What the Buzz?).What is the adventurous life of a space explorer really like? District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). Public School (DCPS DCPS District of Columbia Public Schools DCPS Duval County Public Schools DCPS Defense Civilian Pay System (US DoD) DCPS Digital Copy Protection System DCPS Defense Civilian Payroll System DCPS Data-Centric Publish-Subscribe ) students will soon find out. In the DOPS DOPS Danish Optical Society DOPS Department of Public Safety DOPS Dakota Ojibway Police Service DOPS Disbursing Office Processing System DOPS Digital Optical Projection System DOPS Difference of Perfect Squares (factorizing quadratics) community, a team of over 40 local scientists and engineers will conduct workshops for hundreds of teachers, visit thousands of sixth-grade students in their classrooms, host 10 Family Science Nights--each for hundreds of parents and kids at a time--and build bridges between education, research, and civic organizations. Students will learn about Astronaut Frederick Gregory's expedition in the space shuttle, how Dr. Jeff Goldstein discovered winds on Venus, and why Dr. Matt Bobrowsky continues to search the universe using the Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first large optical orbiting observatory. Built from 1978 to 1990 at a cost of $1.5 billion, the HST (named for astronomer E. P. Hubble) was expected to provide the clearest view yet obtained of the universe. . Funded by grants from NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. and the Office of Space Science, Challenger Center's Window on the Universe will reach 15 communities nationally in the next three years. DCPS is the first urban community to try the program and is helping to create the templates for other urban school systems. To learn more about the Windows on the Universe program, visit www.windows.ucar.edu |
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