Tiera Fletcher, NASA Rocket Engineer
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Tiera Fletcher’s job is to figure out how to send people to Mars. She is a rocket engineer who graduated from MIT in 2017 and works for Boeing on the Space Launch System for NASA.
Monday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
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Tuesday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Wednesday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Thursday | 10:00 am – 8:00 pm |
Friday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Saturday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Sunday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
From the deepest ocean depths to the far reaches of the universe, join us for live link-ups with top industry professionals, covering a wide range of topics. Our 2021 schedule heard from experts at CERN, NASA, National Park Service, Cargill, Textron, Georgia Aquarium, Center for Severe Weather Research and more. Explorer Club is included with camp registration. Free for members.
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Tiera Fletcher’s job is to figure out how to send people to Mars. She is a rocket engineer who graduated from MIT in 2017 and works for Boeing on the Space Launch System for NASA.
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During the Artemis Mission, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the moon. Learn how we will NASA will use innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before from Patricia Moore, a member the Artemis Mission communication team.
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Yellowstone National Park is famous for Old Faithful, a geyser that erupts regularly, with intervals typically ranging from 44 minutes to two hours. Learn more about this park’s geothermal features and its amazing wildlife.
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Learn about volcanoes on Venus with Justin Filiberto, a planetary petrologist and geochemist.
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Dr. Hublin is a French paleoanthropologist based at the Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He is known for his work on the Neandertals and early Homo sapiens.
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From Wichita to NASA! Todd Barber, a graduate of Wichita Southeast High School, is a propulsion engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His other passion besides science is music, and he is a published composer. Barber majored in aerospace engineering and minored in music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Seth Zenz is an American working in particle physics at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Kevin Wilson is an aquatic ecologist who manages the Devils Hole research program at Death Valley National Park, which is the hottest, driest and lowest national park.
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Julie Stopar has spent more than a decade involved in the science and oeprations of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, which collects data to help plan future exploration of the moon’s surface.
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Let’s talk turkey. Matt Goodson deals with turkey as a retail product in his job, but the topic he will explore with you is the emerging field of regenerative protein.
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Shea Zuckerman leads the FutureMaker team at WSUTech as the Director of CTE and STEM Engagement. Learn how drones fly and what it takes to become a drone pilot.
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Josh Wurman is best known as the scientest on Discovery Channel’s Storm Chasers series. He is passionate about tornadoes, and he would love to give your toughest questions a whirl.
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There’s spidey sense, and then there’s spider sense. These eight-legged arthropods are Dustin Wilgers’ specialty.
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Elasmobranch biology is Kady Lyons’ specialty. That means the study of sharks, skates and rays. She is a research scienctist at Georgia Aquarium, the largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere.
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Jenny Wang is interested in applying nonlinear optics and metamaterials theory to superconducting systems. She will discuss particle movement through sound.
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The aviation industry is constantly evovling. Jason Neal of Textron Aviation will discuss experimental operations.
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Learn about the intersection of science and the law in death investigations. Chelsea Yacovazzi is an experienced forensic chemist whose analyses help the coroner determine causes of death.
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James Delgado is an expert at maritime archeology, pioneering the U.S. government’s standards for preserving shipwrecks.
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Teenagers Connor and Bauer Lee co-founded a nonprofit called Cardboard Superheroes. They spent time at their grandpa’s workplace, which was filled with cardboard boxes. To pass the time, they began making castles, forts, robots and more.
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With a doctorate in plant pathology, Derreck Carter-House has experimented for many years with plants, fungi and bacteria.
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Find out what it is like to be a story artist at DreamWorks, the award-winning animation studio responsible for Shrek, Boss Baby and many more.
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Delve into the connection between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies with astrophysicist Angelo Ricarte.
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Dr. Kimberly Arcand is a visualization scientist and science communicator for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. She is responsible for using the raw binary data received from the space telescope to create astronomical images and animations of Chandra’s new discoveries.
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NASA educator Patricia Moore will tell you what it is like to live and work in space.
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Brandy Hearting learned to fly in high school, piloting a Cessna 172 from a small airport in Western Kansas. Now airplanes are her career.
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Natalia Guerrero’s job is to identify new potential exoplanets. She works at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics on the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) program.
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As adjunct curator of paleontology, Mike Everhart helps the Sternberg Museum of National History in Hays tell the story of fossils.
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You will be hooked on the fishing tales told by Patrick Ross, who grew up on a fishing resort and has made a career of studying fish behavior. This talk complements National Geographic’s Monster Fish, our summer traveling exhibit.
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Wei Wei’s research interests include advanced materials synthesizing, renewable energy conversion devices, photocatalytic processes for H2 generation and mechanical properties of composite materials.
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Stargazers will love hearing from Tony Gondola, outreach coordinator at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, about amateur astronomy.
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