Join TEDxNASAJSCWomen for an extraordinary discussion on inspiring students, engineering innovation, new scientific discoveries and perspectives from space. The TEDxNASAJSC planning team with support of the JSC Directors and the Office of Equality Opportunity and Diversity, hosted this event in NASA’s Teague auditorium.
FULL EVENT PLAYLIST here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsRNoUx8w3rNcTa_6HKEZsYVQ0YuQbzeT
Welcome
• ELLEN OCHOA
3 time shuttle mission payload specialist and JSC Deputy Center Director on womens progress
First Joining NASA
• JESSIE FERNANDEZ
on starting work at NASA
NASA Education: Building the Next Generation of Explorers
• CINDY MCARTHUR
head of NASA’s Teaching From Space Office on Space Education
Engineering Innovation
• LORA BAILEY
lead for shuttle return to flight tile repair and now SE&I lead for the AES Deep Space Hab speaks on Engineering Innovation
STEM Education: the Root of our Future
• DOTTIE METCALF-LINDENBURGER
astronaut perspective on STEM education as key to future world challenges
Why 6 months in Space is not enough
• CADY COLEMAN
Experiments that Can't Be Done on Earth
• JULIE ROBINSON
ISS chief scientist on the amazing capabilities of our orbiting lab
Exploring the Solar System with a Microscope
• KEIKO NAKAMURA-MESSENGER
first Japanese female to the South Pole and discoverer of 2 new minerals
Organizing team
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T.Q. Bui
Organizer