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Engineering Design Challenge: Thermal Protection System
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During this web seminar, educators learned about the science of heat transfer and
heat dissipation related to NASA vehicles. Participants watched videos showing how
NASA thermally protects instruments on satellites and how heat was dissipated on
Apollo and Space Shuttle missions during atmospheric reentry. Seminar attendees
found out how to connect NASA’s work to an engineering design challenge for students.
They also discussed possible modifications and extensions to the activity.
Details
This web seminar is part of a series of electronic professional development experiences
sponsored by the NASA Explorer Schools (NES) project. NASA Explorer Schools invests
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educators to inspire and engage
a whole generation of future scientists, engineers and technicians that NASA needs
to continue our journey. NES gives educators of grades 4-12 free access to NASA’s
people, missions, research, and facilities. We take the work out of searching through
thousands of materials on the NASA website and provide a comprehensive set of teaching
materials for dozens of STEM concepts. For additional information about the NASA
Explorer Schools project, visit
http://explorerschools.nasa.gov.
See when other
NASA Explorer Schools Web Seminars are Scheduled
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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Sponsored by NASA
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