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UPDATED: Blake Teacher, Marissa Gumas Awarded STEM Day Trip
CORRECTION to previous post: Marissa Gumas was the Teacher of the Year FINALIST who was awarded with a Trip to Fenway Park's STEM DAY.
The following information has been updated and corrected. Apologies to Marissa Gumas for incorrectly stating that the Finalist was educator, Kerry Cowell.
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As part of her award for being a finalist for MA Dept of Elementary and Secondary Education Teacher of the Year, Blake Middle School's Marissa Gumas was given 50 tickets to participate in Fenway’s STEM Day. It was all about NASA and they took 40 students and had a great day: STEM and then a baseball game.
STEM Day Timeline
7:45AM – Fenway Park Opens at Gate C ONLY
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8:00AM-10:00AM – STEM Fair open to students in concourse. Exhibits includes: Chandra X-Ray Telescope, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars & the Curiosity Rover, James Webb Space Telescope, OSIRIS-REx Mission to an Asteroid, RIS4E, CRaTER, Solar Observing, iRobot, and the
Museum of Science.
9:00AM – Event Welcome & Introduction (in Bleachers)
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9:05AM – Exploring our Solar System
• Introduction and Sharing Science on Social Media
o Molly Wasser is the Digital & Social Media Lead for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Planetary Science Division.
• Exploring Mars
o Cherie Achilles is a planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She works on the Mars Curiosity rover.
• Craters on the Earth and the Moon
· Steven Jaret is a planetary geologist and researcher at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, NY.
9:20AM - 9:35AM – Water Bottle Rocket Launch
9:40AM – Exploring our Universe
• Exploring Alien Planetary Systems
o Prabal Saxena is a scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center who specializes in research on exoplanets.
• Visualizing X-rays with Chandra
o Kimberly Kowal Arcand is the Visualization Lead for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, headquartered at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA.
• Engineering NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
o Paul Geithner is the Deputy Project Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope.
10:10AM - 10:20AM – Scale Model of our Solar System
10:25AM - 10:35AM – Paper Airplane Demonstration
10:40AM – Forward to the Moon
• Making NASA Videos
o David Ladd is a Senior Multimedia Producer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
• Robotic Explorers at the Moon and Mars
o Barbara Cohen is a planetary scientist at NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center and the Principal Investigator of the Mid-Atlantic
Noble Gas Research Lab (MNGRL).
• Join the Artemis Generation!
o David Draper is NASA’s Deputy Chief Scientist. He
managed the Astromaterials Research Office at Johnson Space Center from
2009 to 2019, specializing in the study of samples from other worlds.
11:00AM – Event Concludes
1:05PM – First Pitch
The Learning Continues!
The full sized Neil Armstrong Statue of his Spacesuit from Apollo 11 on loan from the Smithsonian. Students can visit after the STEM program and throughout the game near the Gate E concourse behind Loge Box 158.
