Mars Central Project at Port Discovery Children's Museum

As part of the Mars Central Project at Port Discovery Children's Museum in Baltimore, funding supported an activity entitled "Action Contraptions." Using real tools and all kinds of materials, children were challenged to design a Mars rover in the R&D DreamLab. A total of 949 students from Maryland MESA schools in Baltimore City and rural Washington County attended this event. Funding also allowed over 600 disabled children and their chaperones for a special "Accessibility Day."

Hubble Live Interactive Teleconference

MSGC and the Maryland Science Center conducted a live interactive teleconference for 23 elementary and secondary teachers on Thursday, April 27. The program which was held at four interactive sites and three view only sites highlighted Hubble's 10 years of discoveries, classroom activities and professional development opportunities offered by MSGC.

Baltimore City Professional Day

The overall purpose of this two-day event, conducted by Baltimore City's Board of Education on September 29 & 30, 2000, was to provide in-service teachers with new information and ideas for enhancing student academic development during this new school year. The Maryland Space Grant Consortium, in conjunction with Towson University Center for Geographic Information Sciences, one of its state Space Grant partners, was given the opportunity to help one of its NASA/Raytheon Synergy Project-trained teachers demonstrate the use of Global Positioning System units in collecting ground truth data for this project. Approximately 25 teachers attended the two sessions during which the use of this unit was demonstrated.

MSGC/GLOBE/GREEN Collaboration

There are certain environmental education parallels among the three groups, especially in areas of Hydrology, Land Cover, and Atmosphere. The three groups are exploring the different protocols used by each, with the intent to merge common areas of interest, especially where school activities compliment each other (such as measurements of hydrologic parameters) and expand the number of schools participating in each program without imposing a duplication of effort on the part of the teachers.

Governor's Math and Science Academy

Assistance is provided by MSGC for recruitment of speakers among its affiliate members to address middle and high school teacher participants of the Academy.