The six-week course, "Using Robotics in Lunar Exploration" (Physics 580), begins Oct. 5 and ends Nov. 13. Tuition for the course is free, covered by a grant to MSU Extended University from the Aerospace Education Foundation and NASA. Teachers who complete the course will earn one graduate credit from MSU.
Participants will be loaned a LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit and will learn how to use the kit to stimulate their students' interest in lunar exploration. A refundable deposit is required for the kit.
All participating teachers can interact personally with a NASA science educator and will have the opportunity to attend the Montana FIRST Robotics Regional Tournament to be held in February at MSU. Teachers who take the course and their classes can also participate in two interactive Webcasts with NASA educational specialists, MSU faculty and other course participants.
MSU professors Brock LaMeres and Hunter Lloyd will teach the course with assistance from Tony Leavitt of the Aerospace Education Foundation.
Applications are due Sept. 8 and are available to all Montana teachers who currently teach science or technology at the middle or high school level.
The course is offered through Extended University's National Teachers Enhancement Network (NTEN), a program that has offered online resources for K-12 science teachers since 1993.
Lisa Brown at (406) 994-3062 or email@example.com