![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
JoBea Way,9/18/95 4:12 PM,Draft of KidSat release 3 >under the direction of the Hopkins Institute for the Academic Advancement of >Youth to develop the KidSat curriculum. This set of lesson plans will allow >students to control their cameras and analyze their data to draw important conclusions about the health of planet Earth. > > "The program is being designed by students and so, since students can >relate to other students, it will be easier for them to understand," >explained Lisa Minn, a ninth grader at La Canada High School in La Canada->Flintridge, Calif. "I think they'll be able to catch on very quickly." > > Fifth-grade students at the Washington Accelerated Learning Center have >been helping design the data system interface. Their requirements are to >have a colorful presence on the Internet, display the best images on the >home page, be able to call up interesting topics such as the age of >dinosaurs when viewing shuttle images and create a multimedia capability, >with sound and video clips to accompany information. > > The KidSat pilot program is sponsored by NASA's Office of Human Resources >and Education, with significant support from NASA's Offices of Space Flight, >Space Science and Mission to Planet Earth, Washington, D.C.> > >##### > >9/11/95 DEA >#95-XXX > JoBea Way Phone: 818-354-8225 Secretary Phone: 818-354-2111 Fax: 818-354-9476 Email: way@lor.jpl.nasa.gov Mail Stop 300-233 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109 Printed for sride@ucsd.edu (Sally K. Ride) 3