So in the past few weeks, we have done a couple outreach prog
rams for the Boys and Girls clubs of America (BGCA)! The first outreach program was a few weeks ago on a friday afternoon. Several interns in the Lunar Planetary Science Academy arranged for a classroom experiment at the Silver Spring, MD BGCA. Using small wooden balls, styrafoam balls, and various rocks as meteors, and a container of sand and baking powder, the kids experimented on how to make impact craters! we 
observed the effect of dropping different size meteors, meteors with different masses, and the effect that the speed of the meteor has in relation to creating craters. The kids had a wonderful time, and asked many intriuiging questions 
of our interns! It was a great experience, not only for the kids but for the interns as well. Special thanks goes out to Dr. Cynthia Cheung, Andrea Balbas, and Maggie McAdam for setting this up!
rams for the Boys and Girls clubs of America (BGCA)! The first outreach program was a few weeks ago on a friday afternoon. Several interns in the Lunar Planetary Science Academy arranged for a classroom experiment at the Silver Spring, MD BGCA. Using small wooden balls, styrafoam balls, and various rocks as meteors, and a container of sand and baking powder, the kids experimented on how to make impact craters! we 
observed the effect of dropping different size meteors, meteors with different masses, and the effect that the speed of the meteor has in relation to creating craters. The kids had a wonderful time, and asked many intriuiging questions 
of our interns! It was a great experience, not only for the kids but for the interns as well. Special thanks goes out to Dr. Cynthia Cheung, Andrea Balbas, and Maggie McAdam for setting this up!Just last friday, several of the LPSA interns along with Dr. Cythina Cheung held a webinar for many different Boys and Girls Clubs all across the nation! there were over 800 students tuning into the webinar! We had a few minor technical difficulties, but once the webinar really got going, it wase a huge success! Several interns talked about there
experience here at NASA as well as cool geological projects as well as cool robotics projects that are happening all over the world. Andrea Balbas gave a presentation on the field of Geology, and Aaron Silver & Grant 
Moore gave a presentation on the field of Robotics. 
These interns also answered many questions that the kids had, and boy did they have some great questions! We could tell that many students were very curious in science and this webinar may have really inspired them to 
continue learning. Special thanks goes out to Maggie McAdam & Dr. Cheung for organazing this large event, as there were a huge amount of students listening in to what our NASA interns had to say. There were a series of videos made for the students that were to be played at the begining of the webinar, but due to technical difficulties they were not able to be played. However, they were posted to YouTube for the student to view at a later time. Here are the links to the videos:Maggie's Planetary Science Video
Aaron & Grant's Robotics Video (PT 1)
Aaron & Grant's Robotics Video (PT 2)
Be sure to check these videos out!
-Aaron
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