2009 Super Sci-Tech Saturday Conference for 6th, 7th and 8th Grade Girls

What: 2009 Super Sci-Tech Saturday Conference for 6th, 7th and 8th Grade Girls

When: Saturday, February 7, 2009

Where: University of Houston – Clear Lake

Who: Female volunteers

Schedule:
8:00 – 8:30 Volunteer orientation and assignments
8:30 – 3:30 Conference
3:30 – 4:00 Tear Down and Clean Up

Sample Duties:
Set up, work registration tables, distribute t-shirts and packets, provide directions to workshops throughout building(s), assist workshop presenters, etc.

Sign Up to Volunteer:
Visit www.ccisd.net and click on the hot pink Super Sci-Tech Saturday (SSTS) block (under ‘Connecting with You’) to enter the SSTS site.  Click on the ‘For Volunteers’ tab at the top and fill in the fields. Be sure to list Space Center Volunteers as your ‘Organization/Affiliation’ and wear your SCV shirts on event day!

Contact: Eva deCardenas, Clear Creek ISD – 281.284.0029

Volunteers Needed for Career Day Speakers

Volunteers are needed to serve as career panel speakers at the Houston Hispanic Forum’s 23rd annual Career and Education Day event taking place at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Saturday, Feb. 7. This an annual event is the forum’s most important event of its activities. It is attended by approximately 16,000 Houston-area students from grades 6-12. This activity gives students an opportunity to speak to professionals about career choices for their futures. The goal of Career and Education Day is to promote the importance of finishing high school and pursuing higher education, to educate students about careers in your area of expertise and to show students that their career aspirations are possible. For more information on panel times, please visit the Education Outreach Volunteer Web site and search for request numbers 614, 615, 616 and 617.

Education Outreach 281-483-8712
http://education.jsc.nasa.gov/volunteer

COMMUNITY COLLEGE AEROSPACE SCHOLARS (CAS) MENTORS NEEDED

CAS is back and looking for mentors/co-ops for this spring. Being a mentor/co-op includes working with outstanding community college students, gaining opportunities to represent your division in education outreach without leaving JSC and using your leadership skills to help students guide a fictitious aerospace company through a project design challenge.

CAS needs mentors for two-and-a-half day sessions running from April 3 to 5 and April 24 to 26. Mentoring occurs Thursday afternoons, all day Friday and Saturday mornings. If you are interested in applying to be a mentor/co-op, please go to http://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/CAS/Mentors.cfm and click on the application.

Point of contact: Deborah Hutchings, 281-483-8623, Deborah.hutchings-1@nasa.gov