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Center Keeps Students SHARP with Summer Program
CET Thu Jun 23 2004

High school students across the country across the country are debating some timely space science issues this summer with the help of the Center for Educational Technologies®.

The NASA SHARP joint program activity, which is coordinated by the center, kicked off June 14 and runs until July 23.

SHARP—Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program—is an opportunity for high school students to participate in an intensive science and engineering experience. NASA SHARP operates during the summer months for approximately eight weeks at participating NASA centers and university campuses. Students are selected on the basis of having shown the aptitude for and interest in science and engineering careers.

The joint program activity that the Center for Educational Technologies facilitates divides students into teams. Then each team is split into a "pro" and "con" group that researches one of the following questions:

  • Should we continue to provide funding for the International Space Station in light of the Bush administration’s proposal to support a lunar base?

  • Should we maintain the Hubble Space Telescope?

  • Should we work toward building a lunar base?

  • Should we work toward launching a manned flight to Mars?

Student teams conduct an online debate and submit final position papers for judging by Center for Educational Technologies facilitators. Members of the SHARP facilitator team are Christine Mitsch, Patti Kota, Hope Childers, Jodie Hoover, Sharon Morgan, Kathie Fox, and student interns Liz Paulhus and Anna Oskorus.

November 10, 2004

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