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7/15/2010
INSPIRE Presents at 2010 SARA Conference
The INSPIRE Project was invited to present at the SARA (Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers) 2010 Annual Conference held at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia. The conference was held July 4-7. INSPIRE Physics Educational Advisors, Paul Schou and Ellen McLean, represented The INSPIRE Project and presented an overview of organization and demonstrated the VLF radio receiver kit. In addition, Ellen McLean did a presentation on how to get students excited about the sciences and how hands-on experiences are important to life-long learning.
5/20/2010
The INSPIRE Project Participates in
2010 Dayton Hamvention
Melinda Lord (left) and Paul Schou (right) presented information about Radio JOVE and The INSPIRE Project at the annual Dayton HAMvention held in Dayton, OH May 14th through 16th. The annual event attracts ham radio enthusiasts from around the world.
Radio JOVE, a sister project to INSPIRE, offers people with a desire to listen to the cosmos to listen to the emitted RF coming from extra-terrestrial sources a kit to do so. The INSPIRE Project offers a VLF radio receiver kit to listen to VLF radiation coming from terrestrial sources.
For information on the 2011 Dayton HAMvention, click here.
INSPIRE Presents at State Department
On April 22nd, The INSPIRE Project was invited to present a mini-workshop at the US Department of State through the directorate of the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science. The INSPIRE Project presented “Inspiring the Next Generations of Space Explorers through the Sciences”. INSPIRE president, Kathleen Franzen, introduced The INSPIRE Project and presented an overview of the organization and its many educational programs. Dr. Phillip Webb presented the INSPIRE Project hands-on course that emphasizes “chasing” lightening in the atmosphere and the many sounds, sferics, tweeks and whislers, which everyone heard samples of. Throughout the program there was a looping visual presentation of planets, aurora and moons, a rocket launch and pictures taken from the International Space Station. The program concluded with the 2009 Space Academy for Educators scholarship recipient, Ellen McLean, enthusiastically presenting her experiences at this Academy and how it is promoting life-long learning among her students. INSPIRE Advisors, Bill McVay and Paul Schou, helped present the program.
10/15/2009
THE INSPIRE PROJECT HOSTS EDUCATOR WORKSHOP
Teaching Science with an Enthusiastic Attitude
On 2 October 2009, The INSPIRE Project teamed up with the State Office of Career and Technical Education, Office of State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), DC Space Grant Consortium, and Gallaudet University to host Teaching Science with an Enthusiastic Attitude Educator Workshop. The daylong workshop, hosted by Gallaudet University, was very attended and received by middle and high school educators and administrators from the Washington metropolitan area. Read More>
09/16/2008
INSPIRE lectures at the University of Maryland Baltimore
INSPIRE president Kathleeen Franzen was invited to lecture at the first Lab-Based INSPIRE Physics course at the University of Maryland Baltimore campus on September 16th. INSPIRE was well-received by the class. Topics of discussion included Science is creative and fun and don't be afraid to experiment. After class, students told Kathleen that if high school physics and science teachers had told them that science was not so serious, they would have been less fearful of science courses and taken more classes at the high school level.
09/12/2008
Conventional wisdom holds that the sound of lightning is thunder. And while that's still true, lightening from hundreds of miles away can be heard using a do-it-yourself radio kit. Nathan talks to a group of amateur radio enthusiasts who tune in to the low-frequency radiation that permeates the atmosphere. He's joined by Kathleen Franzen, President, The INSPIRE Project, Inc., Dr. Phillip Webb, Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), and Leonard Garcia, Space Scientist supporting research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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NPR INSPIRE Interview