[Atmob-announce] Web cast - Growing Plants in Space with John Gruener, Johnson Space Center event added to the web site

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The Web cast - Growing Plants in Space with John Gruener, Johnson Space Center event has been added to the web site.
Location: Log on and participate - from home or classroom
Date: Tuesday, Feb 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM
CHALLENGER CENTER HOSTS DISCUSSION WITH NASA ENGINEER AND STUDENTS ABOUT GROWING PLANTS IN SPACE 

Alexandria, VA – On February 19th at 2:30 PM ET, NASA engineer, John Gruener, from the Johnson Space Center, will be talking live with students and teachers about the challenges of growing plants on a future Moon base. To participate and ask questions of Mr. Gruener, educational organizations, schools and classrooms should pre-register on the Challenger Center website, www.challenger.org, and click on web casts.  Anyone can log on and listen to the webcast on February 19th, or afterwards, in the web cast archive.  All of Challenger Center’s web casts are free and open to the general public. 

Someday plants could give us food, oxygen, and clean water for our life support systems on Earth and in space. NASA’s educator astronaut Barbara Morgan brought back 10,000 basil seeds from space to be used in student-designed plant growth chambers in the NASA Engineering Design Challenge. In the challenge, elementary middle and high school students design, build and test chambers using the space-flown basil seeds. Students participate in the engineering design process and learn how to conduct a scientific experiment, and can receive national recognition for their efforts on the Challenger Center website. The Challenger Center on-line showcase highlights student’s engineering solutions submitted by Challenger Learning Centers around the world. All participating classrooms will receive a set of the NASA space-flown basil seeds for their lunar plant growth chambers. 



Further details at: http://www.atmob.org/events/displayevent.php?id=189
Click on the link below if you plan to attend this event:
  http://www.atmob.org/events/attendingevent.php?act=add&id=189