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Southeastern Education students participate in NASA teaching institute

Press Release Date: 6-28-2011

Participating at the NASA event from Southeastern were Matt Morris, Lorraine De Sivo, Sylvia Stuckey, and Ashley Clark.

Participating at the NASA event from Southeastern were Matt Morris, Lorraine De Sivo, Sylvia Stuckey, and Ashley Clark.

DURANT, Okla. – The Oklahoma NASA Space Grant Consortium hosted its 16th Annual Summer Teacher Institute -- Mission To Planet Earth -- from June 1-11 at the University of Oklahoma’s Norman campus.

Sixteen teachers from Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas were selected to take part in this opportunity. The participants included pre-service and in-service teachers, and among that group were four pre-service teachers from Southeastern Oklahoma State University: Ashley Clark, from Whitesboro, Texas; Lorraine De Sivo, Durant; Matthew Morris, Caddo; and Sylvia Stuckey, Kingston.

Participants were immersed in hands-on aerospace activities, which covered the topics of rocketry experiments, model rocketry, aviation, geology, topographical maps, living and working in space, remote sensing, and more. The teachers also received information from University professors with NASA research grants.

Participants attended ground school for an entire day and then received thirty minutes of flight time with an instructor.