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Robotics
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Presenters:
Sheri Klug
Sheri is a certified teacher with K 12 science teaching experience. Her K-12 school
programs included working with migrant-focused summer science camps, after school
science clubs for elementary students, and creating and delivering classroom hands-on
science instruction as a district science specialist.
She is currently the Director of the ASU Mars Education Program (since 1998). This
program is housed within the Mars Space Flight Facility in the Department of Geological
Sciences at Arizona State University. As director, she facilitates national education
workshops focused on Mars exploration, edits and co-writes inquiry based standards-based
curriculum that highlight Mars mission objectives, provide Earth/Mars analog field-based
experiences for educators, is a member of the national Solar System Girl Scout Leadership
Training Team, and participates on several E/PO committees (Solar System E/PO Committee
and Planetary Data in Education Working Group).
Sheri is the formal education lead for the Mars Public Engagement Team at Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, CA and is the Education and Public Outreach representative
on the Solar System Exploration Subcommittee for NASA Headquarters. As such, she
attends Mars science team meetings and technical science presentations to keep up
to date on the latest science discussions and witness, first hand, the process of
science and scientific discovery.
As an education interface with the science teams, she works to involve the Mars
team in education and to help translate NASA’s science and engineering objectives
to the K-20 education community in meaningful ways.
Dr. Jennifer L. Rochlis
Jennifer L. Rochlis received her B.A. in Physics from Mount Holyoke College in South
Hadley, MA and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.
Her research interests include human factors engineering, human-computer interfaces,
Extravehicular activity, and teleoperation and telerobotics. Since 2000 she has
been working with the Robonaut project for the Automation, Robotics and Simulation
division at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.
Dr. Bradley Blue
The year-round GEMS program presents young women with complex problem-solving projects
and opportunities to present in public. Annually, the girls build and program robots
to compete in a robotics competition. Under Dr. Blue’s direction GEMS has been featured
on Dragonfly TV and in national and area newspapers and other publications.
In addition to his work on GEMS Dr. Blue has worked for various public television
shows including: Newton’s Apple (Kidz on Mars: Season 15, 1997), Zoom TV (Balloons
and Fliers, 1998), and Dragonfly TV (Girl Power and Robotics, 2001). In 2000 Dr.
Blue published the Science of Speed for Pitsco and recently completed, with Julie
Ferriss, work on the Exploration Mars Curriculum.
Dr. Blue completed a Ph.D. at King’s College at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland,
completed his National Board Certification in 1998 and was awarded the Presidential
Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching in 1999.
Julie Ferriss
Julie Ferriss has been an educator for more than twenty years. She graduated from
Mississippi University for Women with a Bachelor’s Degree in music education in
1978 and later received K-8 teaching certification from Mississippi College. She
taught elementary classroom music in the Crooked Oak School District in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma for three years. She then returned to Mississippi where she taught
1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade in the Mississippi Delta from 1984-1999. During that time
she not only introduced creative, innovative instructional strategies to students,
families, and colleagues, she also provided training and motivation to other teachers
in the school district and the state. In 1996 and 1997, she was named Mississippi’s
Teacher of the Year, and she found a voice in both the educational and political
communities across the state.
In 1999, Julie became the Director of Education at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center/U.S.
SPACE CAMP in Huntsville, Alabama. As Director of Education she led a department
of five full-time educators, which was responsible for curriculum development, training,
and implementation of all SPACE CAMP programs (ages 9-18) as well as museum education
and professional development programs for teachers. While there, she also served
as liaison to the Education Department at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. For
the past two years Julie has served as an aerospace consultant to the GEMS (Girls
in Engineering Math and Science) after school/summer program in the Minneapolis
Public School District. She has developed professional development opportunities
for teachers in a variety of areas, and has written robotics curriculum for PITSCO/LEGO
as a classroom solution for integrating programming and engineering strategies to
students in a traditional classroom setting.
Julie is currently teaching in the Osseo Public School District located on the outskirts
of Minneapolis. She is the Lead Teacher at Edgewood Elementary, the new elementary
math, science, and technology magnet school in the district.
For more information contact symposia@nsta.org
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