• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

...imagine the possibilities

MENUMENU
  • Education
  • Aerospace Collection
  • Visit Us
        • Experience Wings of Eagles Discovery Center in Person!

          Open to the public: Fridays through Sundays 10 AM until 3 PM

        • Directions
        • Admission Prices
        • Tours
  • Book Escape Room
  • Join Us
        • There are many way to support us in our effort to provide hands-on STEM education to youth in our area.

        • Become a Volunteer
        • Become A Member
        • Donate Now
  • Calendar
        • Upcoming Events

          There are no upcoming events.

          View Calendar
          Add
          • Add to Timely Calendar
          • Add to Google
          • Add to Outlook
          • Add to Apple Calendar
          • Add to other calendar
          • Export to XML
  • Book An Event
  • Wings Cafe
  • News Center
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Search
MENUMENU
  • Book Escape Room
  • ASTC
  • Wings Cafe
  • Book An Event
  • News Center
Slider
You are here: Home / News / NASA Grant Awarded – Mars Base Eagle

NASA Grant Awarded – Mars Base Eagle

September 7, 2016 by WE admin

Mars Base Eagle: Integrating students, teachers and families in the engineering process of building NASA-themed STEM museum displays: an installation and pilot project for U.S. science museums.

$1,249,678

Wings of Eagles Discovery Center will work with Board of Cooperative Educational Services Schuyler-Steuben-Chemung- Tioga-Allegany, Elmira City School District (ECSD), Cornell University, Ithaca College, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, NASA Kennedy and Johnson Space Centers to create a Martian Base exhibit, associated NASA STEM curriculum and educator professional development pilot program linking the museum to local underserved classrooms through novel and existing NASA-STEM Mars-themed curriculum. The targeted audience is grades K-12 low-income and minority students from the Elmira City underserved school district (61% economically disadvantaged), their teachers, families and the general public, The Mars Base Eagle exhibit will establish a permanent museum installation from which STEM programming (formal and informal) will be launched. The interactive display will feature real-word data and inquiry challenges to demonstrate real world STEM applications including NASA-Mars transport vehicle design concepts, Mars Base design concepts, microgravity and possible effects on the human body of traveling to Mars, transport vehicle designs, agricultural methods and types of food crops being planned for a Mars Base. The proposal seeks to create a formal NASA STEM education link between the museum and local school district curricula . The proposed pilot PD workshop series will result in 3 case-study, place-based Mars lesson plans to be integrated and piloted in 10 classrooms in the ECSD with emphasis on NASA STEM and Place-Based aspects of the approach to provide a novel approach to addressing barriers in the school districts underserved population in taking STEM coursework. Undergraduate interns from a Historically Black College and University (1890/HBCU, University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES)) will be trained as docents.
15-CP4SMPVC+-0041

Filed Under: News

Primary Sidebar

Visit Us

Tour our 25,000 sq ft hangar with aircraft on display inside and outside. Experience our collection through static displays, docent guided tours, self guided mobile tours and flight simulators. Take home a momento from our Gift Shop to remember your visit and grab a bite to eat at the Wings Cafe. ‹more›

  • Audio Tour
  • Admission Prices
  • Video Tour

Footer

ABOUT WINGS OF EAGLES

Wings of Eagles strives to educate residents of New York’s Southern Tier and Pennsylvania’s Northern Tier through formal and informal education programs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
Sitemap
Conditions of Use
Member of ASTC

GET IN TOUCH

339 Daniel Zenker Drive, Horseheads, NY 14845, USA

607-358-4247

Contact Us

UPCOMING EVENTS

There are no upcoming events.

View Calendar
Add
  • Add to Timely Calendar
  • Add to Google
  • Add to Outlook
  • Add to Apple Calendar
  • Add to other calendar
  • Export to XML

Covid-19 Vaccine shots will NOT be provided at Wings of Eagles on 339 Daniel Zenker Dr., Horseheads NY. For more information please contact the Health Department 607-737-2028.

Wings of Eagles will be closed on Easter Sunday and July 4th.

Facemasks and social distancing WILL be required.  
Escape Rooms will be available with restrictions but must be reserved through Wings of Eagles staff person. 
Requests for Escape Rooms are most easily handled by emailing info@wingsofeagles.com
or by telephone at 607-358-4247 during current hours of operation.

THE LATEST ON FACEBOOK

Facebook

Designed by LTheme.com - Powered by Wordpress

DMCA | Term of Use | Primary Policy