STEM Education: Science

STEM Education in action—In the first of a four-part series, DRCLC Commander Ed Bigley talks about the role of science on a mission at the Challenger Learning Center.

They're scientists in action. They're making decisions. They're telling this crew to change settings so the space craft works better. It's all student-directed.

STEM Education Opportunity for Students on International Space Station

Our friends at the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), in partnership with NanoRacks LLC, have announced a new opportunity for schools across the United States and Internationally to participate in the fifth flight opportunity for the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP).

Read more about this amazing STEM education opportunity for students.

June Scobee Rodgers to Keynote 3rd Annual Challenger Center Dinner

Author, speaker and educator June Scobee Rodgers will be the keynote speaker at our 3rd Annual Celebration Dinner on October 11. June is the widow of Challenger Space Shuttle Commander Dick Scobee and serves as the Founding Chairman of the Board and as a Founding Director for Challenger Center for Space Science Education.

More details to follow as we get closer to the event. Click here to read the "Save the Date" press release.

Video: DRCLC & STEM Education

Director Tom Moser offers an overview of the Challenger Learning Center's missions—Voyage to Mars and Rendezvous with Comet Halley—in this one minute promo video.

And that's what the Challenger Learning Center is all about: the excitement of space exploration in a program that motivates students to learn while at the same time helping them develop critical life skills.