Little SDO & Camilla SDOBest Practices in Educational

Outreach

ASGSB/ISGP Joint MeetingNovember 3, 2011San Jose, CA

Sit Tight!

• NASA SDO & Camilla SDO

• Successful Social Media

• Example BTS-1 Mission Edge of Space

NASA SDO – Why do we observe the Sun?

Credit: J. Bower, R. Durscher

Solar Cycle

Credit: NASA GSFC

Space Weather

Credit: NASA GSFC

What’s the Impact?

Credit: NASA GSFC

So, what does SDO do?

Instruments take many different measurements of the Sun including how bright the Sun is and how fast and

much the surface and corona are changing.

Meet the rest of the Team…

Credit: NASA SDO, NASA GSFC

… & The New Kid in Town

Source: Internet

Camilla Corona SDODOB: February 9, 1980

Occupation: NASA Mission Mascot

Focus:- STEM (Science Technology Engineering & Math)

- Getting girls & boys excited about science, engineering and Space

- Helping with education about the Sunand Space Weather.

- Training to fly to Space to visit Little SDO

Camilla & Little SDO

Credit: SDO EPO

The new Kid in Town - Successful Social Media?

Source: NASA GSFC & Internet

U.S. Social Media - 2010

- 266 million Internet users in North America - 77% of US home have Internet access- 29% have super-fast “8MB+ and 41% have 2-8 MB

connections

- 600 million people on Facebook worldwide; 110 million in North America

- 25 billion tweets sent on Twitter- 186 average number of online videos watched per month in

the US

Source: Internet and Connection from Nielsen. Facebook stats from Facebook and Business Insider. Twitter stats from Twitter TwitterCounter and TechCrunch.YouTube video numbers from Google. Facebook video numbers from GigaOM. US online video stats from Comscore and the Pew Research Center.

U.S. Social Media - May 2011- 140 million Facebook visitors - (62% female)

- 50 million Blogger visitors

- 24 million Twitter users - (Twitter has the most African American demographic of all social media networks)

- 12 million Tumblr visitors - (Tumblr has the most female teens demographic of all social media networks)

Source: Nielsen Social Media Report

Class of 2011- Grew up in the Age of Social Media; Make up just 7.4% of

those using SM; 78.7% of 12-17 year olds use SM.

- Talk Less on Phone, Watch Less TV & Spend Less Time on their ComputersPhone: 18-24 year olds: 750 min/month 12-17 year olds: 515 min/m TV: Average 34 hrs/month 12-17 year olds: 23 hrs/mComputer: 12-17 year olds: 40 hours online per month on computer, of which 5.5 hours are steaming video

- Heaviest Mobile Video ViewersGeneral Population: 4 hrs 20 min 12-17 year olds: 7 hrs 13 min per month of mobile video

Source: Nielsen Kids Today

Social Media – Reaching 25 million Users

3 years

2 years 6 months

4 weeks

1 year 8 months

Source: Internet

Why do Social Media?Share your story/information in more & different ways.

When used well, you can use social media to build relationships.

Connect to & reach people where they are instead of requiring them to come to you.

The conversation is already taking place; you might as well be part of it.

Source: NASA Schierholz

Learning through Social Media

Traditional:Class Rooms, Lectures, Text Books, Lots of Content

Traditional 2.0: Virtual Environments, Learn via Experiencing the Content

Traditional 2.5:Learn by Active Involvement = Self-Directed Learner

Social Media does not replace the Traditional Learning Concept.

Social Media adds a new tool to enhance the work we do.

Source: Edutopia

Source: Internet

Classroom 80 years ago…

Source: Internet

Classroom 1 year ago…

Source: Internet

Today’s Classroom…

Source: Internet

Tomorrow’s Classroom…

Ranks #1 in Public Sector

Source: NASA & L2

EducateInspire

FunCommunityCredit: C. Anderson, Paolo Dy

The BTS-1 Mission

Credit: B. Raab, D. Bonialla

The BTS-1 CrewCommander

Camilla Corona SDO

Pilot

Fuzz Aldrin

Mission Specialist

Skye Bleu

Credit: R. Durscher

Balloon Transport System (BTS)

Credit: R. Durscher / Internet

The Edge of Space

Goal: 100,000 feet

Ionosphere

Approx. 3 times higher than a commercial aircraft

Approx. 13 times lower than International Space Station

You can see the blackness of Space

Source: MediaTheek

Pre-Flight Medical

BTS-1 Launch Day

Credit: BTS-1

Launch

Credit: BTS-1

Credit: BTS-1

Credit: BTS-1

Credit: BTS-1

A Hello

from

Space

Credit: BTS-1 / S. Smith

Credit: B. Raab, BTS-1T

Credit: B. Raab, BTS-1T

Credit: BTS-1

The Landing in the Swamp

Credit: R. Durscher

Lost in the Swamp

Credit: M. Johnson

The Rescue

Credit: M. Johnson

BTS-1

Post-Flight

PressConference

Credit: M. Johnson

8 YEAR OLD LLIV GOT INSPIRED…

Credit: L. Stanley / T. Greiner

Credit: L. Stanley / T. Greiner

Source: VTATE-1

Credit: VTATE Team

VTATE-1 Overview

• Team is comprised of 17 engineering students

• VTATE is a high altitude weather balloon experiment for the purpose to get elementary school kids excited about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines

• Virginia Tech Atmospheric Teaching Experiment

• Involve 200-250 elementary school students

Credit: VTATE Team

• Develop curriculum to teach about engineering and the atmosphere in conjunction with the elementary school Science Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs)

• Two primary outreach events per classroom Initial (pre-launch) in February 2012 Follow-up (post-launch) in April 2012

VTATE-1 Education & Outreach

Real Mission Feel Project Schedule

Credit: VTATE Team

Title

Credit: C. Anderson, M. Kinnison, S. Smith, J. Wallace

We all have an Impact!

Credit: M. Kinnison

Follow the adventures

of Little SDO & Camilla

Thank You!Credit: L. Stanley