- Powell Middle School math and science teachers Carrie Brunner, Courtney Poloney and Kara Kwolek experience weightlessness during the Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery in Detroit. Credit: Northrop Grumman
The Northrop Grumman Foundation is accepting teacher applications through May 15, 2011 for the Weightless Flights of Discovery program.
Los Angeles area middle-school math and science teachers in public schools are welcome to apply.
The flight-of-a-lifetime is taking place in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 26, 2011.
Northrop Grumman is partnering with the Zero Gravity Corporation to offer the Weightless Flights of Discovery program, one of several initiatives the Northrop Grumman Foundation sponsors to promote education and stimulate student interest in STEM fields.
A maximum of 30 teachers will be chosen to participate in this unique initiative that places teachers on micro-gravity flights to test Newton’s Laws of Motion and energize students in the formative middle school years.
Selected teachers will participate in a full-day workshop several weeks before their flights. Teachers then will work with their students to develop experiments to be conducted in lunar gravity, Martian gravity and weightlessness environments.
Following the approximately two-hour flight, each teacher will share his or her experiences with their students back in the classroom using video and photos taken during the flight.
If you are a Los Angeles area middle-school math and science teacher in a public school, you can apply for the 2011 program at:
www.northropgrumman.com/goweightless
By LD/CSE