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Embry-Riddle’s TeachSpace Program Expands to Prescott, Seattle

Daytona Beach, Fla., July 5, 2005 -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and NASA are expanding the popular TeachSpace Workshops for Teachers to Embry-Riddle’s Prescott, Ariz., residential campus and the Extended Campus center in Seattle, Wash.

High school teachers selected for the program are given the tools and techniques to make math and science more appealing by using human space flight and exploration materials in the classroom.

The five-year TeachSpace initiative was launched in 2004 with workshops at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach, Fla., residential campus. Program administrators say it was an immediate success.

“TeachSpace is projected to reach 10,000 teachers and more than one million teenagers by 2008,” says Dr. Michael Hickey, TeachSpace director. “The goal is to motivate students to pursue careers in science, engineering, and technology.”

Teachers with a track record of curricular innovation and peer leadership are nominated by their principals or other teachers for participation in the TeachSpace program.

Although this summer’s sessions at the Daytona Beach and Prescott campuses are full, space is still available in the Aug. 4-6 and Aug. 11-13 sessions at the Seattle center. The nomination deadline for those workshops is July 15. As a special feature, the Seattle workshops will include a tour of the Museum of Flight, one of the largest air and space museums in the world. Summer 2006 sessions will be held at all three locations and possibly others.

Each workshop enrolls up to 20 teachers. Participants receive texts, instructional materials, and access to the TeachSpace curriculum website; free room and board and a $100 daily stipend; and one graduate-level credit from Embry-Riddle.

Besides Embry-Riddle and NASA, the other partners in the TeachSpace initiative are Analytical Graphics Inc., Bethune-Cookman College, Florida Independent College Fund, Florida Space Authority, Florida Space Grant Consortium, McGraw-Hill Publishers, and Teaching Science & Technology Inc.

TeachSpace details can be found online at www.erau.edu/teachspace. For more information, contact Dr. Michael Hickey at (386) 323-8087 or michael.hickey@erau.edu.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. Embry-Riddle educates more than 30,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Extended Campus at more than 130 centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, and through distance learning.