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About IEEE Computer Society

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[ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround: K12 Newsletters NASA

NASA projects for K12 Schools

Check out the following NASA opportunities for the education community.

Full descriptions are listed below.

Electromagnetic Spectrum: Remote Sensing Ices on Mars Web Seminar
Audience: 8-10 and Informal Educators
Event Date: Feb. 21, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. EST
NASA to Host Google+ Hangout Live With International Space Station
Audience: All Educators and Students
Event Date: Feb. 22, 2013
NASA’s Glenn Research Center’s High School Shadowing Project
Audience: Students in Grades 10-12
Sessions III and IV Application Deadline: Feb. 22, 2013
2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
Audience: Higher Education Students
Application Deadline: Feb. 22, 2013
Free Smithsonian’s Stars Lecture Series
Audience: All Educators and 9-Higher Education Students
Next Lecture Date: Feb. 23, 2013
Free Education Webinar Series from the Aerospace Education Services Project
Audience: K-12 Educators
Event Dates: Various Dates During February 2013
5th Annual NASA STEM Educators Workshop Series
Audience: K-12 and Informal Educators
Registration Deadline: Feb. 25, 2013
Event Date: March 4-6, 2013
High Power Microscopes: The Virtual Lab Web Seminar
Audience: 9-12 and Informal Educators
Event Date: Feb. 26, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. EST
The Search for Life Beyond Earth: Mars Educator Conference
Audience: K-12 and Informal Educators
Registration Deadline: Feb. 26, 2013
Conference Date: March 2, 2013
Pythagorean Theorem: Exploring Space Through Math — Lunar Rover Web Seminar
Audience: 8-12 and Informal Educators
Event Date: Feb. 27, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. EST
Space Day Texas 2013
Audience: All Educators and Students
School Registration Deadline: Feb. 27, 2013
Event Date: March 19, 2013
NASA National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program to Host Interactive Student Presentations
Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students
Presentation Dates: Feb. 28 – March 1, 2013
What If? Live Student Design Challenge
Audience: Students Age 14-18
Registration Deadline: Feb. 28, 2013
Titan and Europa Essay Contest
Audience: 5-12 Students
Entry Deadline: Feb. 28, 2013
Polar Science Weekend at the Pacific Science Center
Audience: All Educators and Students
Event Date: Feb. 28 – March 3, 2013
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowships
Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students
Next Application Deadline: March 1, 2013
Expeditions 37 and 38 In-flight Education Downlink Opportunities
Audience: All Educators
Proposal Deadline: March 1, 2013
Host a Real-Time Conversation With Crewmembers Aboard the International Space Station
Audience: All Educators
Proposal Deadline: March 1, 2013
Historical NASA Space Artifacts Available for Educational Use
Audience: Educational Institutions, Museums and Other Education Organizations
Deadline: March 4, 2013
Free Exploring Space Lecture Series — Attend in Person or View Online
Audience: All Educators and 9-Higher Education Students
Next Lecture Date: March 12, 2013
Celebrate Solar Week — Spring 2013
Audience: 5-8 Educators
Event Dates: March 18-22, 2013
Sun-Earth Days ‘SolarMAX Anime’ Contest
Audience: Students ages 13 and older
Entry Deadline: March 20, 2013
Heritage Family Day Events at Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum
Audience: All Educators and Students
Next Event Date: March 23, 2013
NASA Fellowship in the History of Space Technology
Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students
Application Deadline: April 1, 2013
2013-14 History of Science Society Fellowship in the History of Space Science
Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students
Application Deadline: April 1, 2013
Fellowship in Aerospace History
Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students
Application Deadline: April 1, 2013
Amendment and Frequent Asked Questions — NASA Research Announcement (NRA) Competitive Program for Science Museums, Planetariums, and NASA Visitor Centers Plus Other Opportunities (CP4SMP+) (Announcement Number: NNH13ZHA001N, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 43.008)
Audience: Informal Education Institutions
Proposal Due Date: April 9, 2013
RockOn 2013 University Rocket Science Workshop
Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students
Registration Deadline: May 1, 2013
Workshop Dates: June 15-20, 2013
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Sierra Club: Join a Keystone Pipeline Protest

Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco and many other locations. Feb. 17.

Join a Keystone Pipeline Protest
Thousands of Americans will make Forward on Climate the largest climate rally in history.
Join this historic event to make your voice heard
*WASHINGTON DC
When: February 17 ~ 12:00 PM
Where: The National Mall
*SAN FRANCISCO
When: February 17 ~ 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Where: One Market Plaza,
*LOS ANGELES
When: February 17 ~ 1:00 PM
Where: Meet at Paseo de La Plaza, March to City Hall
*And many other locations…
http://action.sierraclub.org/

recruiting boomers to protest climate change

Sierra Club in its first act of civil disobedience in 120 years outside the White House on climate change

An Arresting Way for Boomers to Protest

By JOHN O’NEIL

Published: February 13, 2013

Arguments about generational debt and how baby boomers might make amends usually revolve around Social Security and Medicare. But Lawrence MacDonald has another idea: get arrested, the way you did in the protests of your youth.

Mr. MacDonald is the founder of Fifty Over Fifty, a new group that hopes to recruit baby boomers to engage in civil disobedience to promote action on climate change. The name refers not only to their age range, but also to creating a cadre in each of the 50 states to support local protests and causes.

He is the vice president of communications and policy outreach for the Center for Global Development, a Washington organization, but Fifty Over Fifty is a personal, self-financed project. Born in 1954, he was too young to participate in the protests over civil rights or Vietnam in the 1960s, but “they were very much part of my consciousness growing up,” he said in a telephone interview.

He had felt increasing guilt that students were organizing most protests on climate change and carrying the risk of arrest. His thinking was crystallized by an essay by Bill McKibben, the environmental activist, who wrote: “It would be entirely fitting if the angry troublemakers came from the ranks of those of us who are older. For one thing, we’re the ones who caused the problem.”

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