Hello team, I received this email earlier, and I think this would be a great opportunity for PSAS to do some outreach. I'll see if I can't get Lisa to consolidate to just one or two times, and will create a doodle poll based on that, but is anyone particularly interested in volunteering for a classroom visit?
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Lisa Veatch <lvea...@pps.net> Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 10:38 AM Subject: High School Outreach To: c...@pdx.edu <c...@pdx.edu> Risto, My name is Lisa Veatch and I am a high school teacher in Portland. I met some members of PSAS this weekend at OMSI’s Mini Maker Fair. I asked if your group would be interested in outreach or visiting my school to talk about your engineering process and design. The guys I spoke with gave me your name and address. One of my classes, an astronomy class focusing on planets in our solar system, is currently working on a project where they are supposed to plan a mission for an orbiter or rover to visit another planet (or large moon) and collect environmental data. Since PSAS is literally designing and building a mission, I saw an instant reason for us to get together. I am very interested in demonstrating a real-world example of using materials, incorporating sensors and tools, how communication happens between an off-world device and people on the ground, and an overview of the engineering design process. Some of my students have questions about the materials needed to make a mission successful. For example, a student just asked me how cameras are made to survive in space- something I know applied directly to your OreSat mission. She wants to know what special steps are taken to keep us from needing to replace parts every few weeks as debris and rocks fly past. Others are wondering how something could be made to survive on an environment as extreme as Venus or Pluto- something that may be beyond the scope of your work. It would be super great if you could visit us. My planetology classes are 8:30-9:40 and 9:54-11:04 on M, T, Th, F and 10-10:49 and 10:53-11:42 on Wednesdays. They run for the next three weeks, ending on October 4th. Even something as simple as one or two people showing up with some parts, like what you had at OMSI, and being able to answer questions about them would be out-of-this-world amazing. I look forward to hearing from you. I hope we can connect very soon. Sincerely, Lisa Veatch Science Teacher Alliance HS at Meek
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