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You Are Invited to Join Senator Manchin as he Co-hosts a

Skype with the NASA International Space Station and STEM Career Fair for Students

Friday, March 17, 2017

The Clay Center, Charleston, WV

9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Career Fair begins at 9:00 a.m.

West Virginia Students Skype with NASA Astronauts Program begins at 10:00 a.m.

If you can’t attend in person, you can watch from your computer or classroom beginning at 10:15 a.m. at this website: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public.

Students will skype with the two astronauts who were featured on the Super Bowl Pre-Game Show:  

Commander Shane Kimbrough and Dr. Peggy Whitson

You are welcome to forward this invitation, and there is still room for more students or West Virginians to attend.  

For additional information please email, or call 304-561-3529 or 304-342-5855.

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You are welcome to join Senator Manchin and middle and high school students from across the state for a live Skype session with two astronauts aboard the NASA International Space Station. 

This unique event will take place this Friday, March 17 at the Clay Center in Charleston starting at 9:00 a.m.   There will also be an "Out of this World" Career Fair, where students can learn about careers in NASA and opportunities in the STEM fields.   Come learn how students can follow in the footsteps of great West Virginians, Jon McBride, Katherine Johnson and Homer Hickam,  who have made immeasurable contributions to NASA.

If you can’t make it to Charleston on Friday, but would still like to watch the Skype from your classroom, office or personal computer, you are more than welcome to watch the live broadcast by tuning into NASA TV at NASA.gov.  NASA TV can be watched from https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public or on a mobile device by downloading the NASA TV app. The NASA TV program will be broadcast live beginning at 10:15 a.m. on Friday, March 17.

Here are some NASA resources for teaching students about space:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_education_implementation_plan_ve4_2015-2017.pdf

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/NASA-Modern-Figures-Toolkit.html

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/stem-on-station/ditl_sleeping

To receive a weekly email on opportunities with NASA:  

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/Express_Landing.html

To learn about NASA internships for students:

https://intern.nasa.gov/ossi/web/public/main/

 

 

 To contact me, please click here to visit my website.  To learn more, call my office Toll Free at (855) 275-5737 or find me on social media.

               

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