K-12 Outreach and Seeing Science

 

Digital arts and photography students from Catonsville High School in Baltimore County enjoyed a special visit at NASA Goddard Space Flight Facility on Friday, November 18th, lead by Valerie Casasanto of University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Joint Center for Earth Systems & Technology (JCET). As part of UMBC’s Seeing Science program, students got a taste of NASA Science and the arts.

umbc visit jwst

Shuman hyperwall

IMG_7527

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students toured Goddard’s integration and testing facilities and viewed the cleanroom areas, where ICESat-2 (the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2, the 2nd-generation of the orbiting laser altimeter ICESat) and the James Webb Space Telescope are being integrated.

UMBC’s Dr. Chris Shuman, a JCET scientist based at Goddard, talked about Antarctica and ice science on the Hyperwall. The students also met with a NASA animator and saw an animated short film about ICESat-2. They watched scientific visualizations in an inflatable dome led by Greg Shirah, NASA Scientific Visualizer, who guided them through different Earth visualizations from the planetarium show Dynamic Earth. And finally, students got to experience ICESat-2’s altimeter interactive exhibit to get their heights measured.

Seeing Science is a year long project exploring the central role photography plays in defining and furthering science, and how images made in and about the sciences also impact public opinion and policy, science education, the arts, mass and social media. CADVC’s K-12 educational outreach program in collaboration with the Seeing Science project organized and underwrote the cost of the NASA visit.

Some additional pictures are on our Facebook folder and here below.


Shuman hyperwall
umbc visit jwst IMG_7399 IMG_7397 IMG_7396 IMG_7393 IMG_7418 IMG_7411 IMG_7410 IMG_7404 IMG_7431 IMG_7428 IMG_7425 IMG_7423 IMG_7446 IMG_7445 IMG_7442 IMG_7437 IMG_7454 IMG_7452 IMG_7451 IMG_7447 IMG_7470 IMG_7469 IMG_7462 IMG_7457 IMG_7488 IMG_7484 IMG_7475 IMG_7471 IMG_7496
IMG_7492
IMG_7491 IMG_7508 IMG_7506 IMG_7505 IMG_7497 IMG_7513 IMG_7512 IMG_7511 IMG_7509
IMG_7520
IMG_7517
IMG_7547


IMG_7524
IMG_7556 IMG_7552IMG_7557 IMG_7551IMG_7561