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The Future Women of Science and Space Exploration
Posted by Rebecca Spyke Keiser on October 15, 2010 at 12:45 PM EST
On a recent sunny southern California day this fall, over 1,500 girls of all ages and their families participated in the Girl Scouts of Americas science festival on the mall at the California Institute of Technology. Several personnel from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) hosted a technology petting zoo, where the girl scouts - and their families - were able to try out emerging information technologies, ranging from 3D technologies, energy efficient devices, eBooks, space simulation games, walking on the moon on an iPad, educational games for tablet computers, and much more. NASAs JPL is located at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and performs a wide range of space science, robotics, and Earth science research for the agency.
Checkout many of the educational games that were sampled at the JPL's petting zoo on NASAs space place website at
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/games.shtml.
The hands-on exploration proved to be a highly entertaining and an effective way of introducing the girls to emerging technologies and gaining feedback on how they would use it. The NASA/JPL team was extremely impressed with the questions, the level of interest, and the expertise displayed by the girls.
Members from NASAs Office of the Chief Information Officer said the event was, a terrific success and hopefully excited the girl scouts to become future women of science and NASA/JPL space explorers.
Rebecca Spyke Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Policy Integration at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/15/future-women-science-and-space-exploration