I have attended the Aerospace Education Day two years now. I am an assistant principal and former science teacher, and I am currently employed at Purcell High School. I feel I leave the education day with information and resources that benefit my faculty and students. I am currently a student pilot and personally interested in aviation. In the past, I have met some very interesting people at the training days. I also feel however, finding more, capable mentors could certainly benefit the program. At this point in time, I do not consider myself well-versed in the category as a mentor. I very much want to be included in future aerospace education days in whatever capacity is appropriate. A suggestion or possible fit for me may be as a liaison between public education and aerospace. Please contact with future information or ideas regarding Aerospace Education Day.
Andy
Purcell High School
Purcell, OK
Last year’s ETD was great. Very good first hand info. All aspects of it was excellent. Hope to attend next year.
Thanks
James
MacArthur High School
Lawton, OK
ETD was a good program. It did help me understand the Aerospace industry in OK much better. Honestly, the only result for me, was our involvement with FIRST Lego League. They were one of the vendors at the conference. Oh, and we are also planning to take a trip to Tulsa to visit the Air and Space Museum in the Spring.
I am not planning to be a fellow advisor. My advisor and I never made contact. He was not at the conference and I never had any follow up. Not a complaint, just a statement of how busy we all are. I do appreciate all I learned at the conference.
Shannon
Sixth Grade Science
Casady School
OKC, OK
I have now been to both Education Training Days and I would love to help in this process. I would need to spend some time thinking about ideas/changes specifically, but I think the best thing that comes from the Education Day experience is the fact that industry gets to mingle with the educators. There is often a large gap between what industry is looking for and what we are expected to accomplish in the classroom, so the discussion become very rewarding for all of us.
I am currently in the midst of grading physics and chemistry finals, but I would love to talk with you more.
THANKS!
Rachel
I have nothing but GOOD to say about my experience with Aerospace education. The first year, I went by myself and was overwhelmed by the generosity of the businesses. The second year, I convinced a science teacher to come with me, since I teach math. She loved it and we have since started a lego-robotics team. This is a perfect way for small schools to become part of the movement in Oklahoma!
I am always looking for math connections to the real world. My 8th graders just don't get why math is so important. Programming the lego robot, however, is instilling a new drive in some of them. We recently had Major B. from Vance Air Force Base speak to us of the problems faced by the pilots. His speaking helped us link problems of birds, wind turbines and drones with our project presented at the lego competition.
I would love to be a Fellow advisor to continue my involvement with this movement. If I can encourage more teachers in northwest Oklahoma to join, I will!
Thanks for caring about education,
Susan
I thoroughly enjoyed attending the ETD and I would highly recommend it to other teachers in my school district. I felt that it gave me a much greater understanding of the aerospace industry and I was able to pass along valuable information to our science department.
I would love to be a fellow advisor and attend again or help out in any way that I could this year. Please let me know if there is anything that I could do.
Thank you.
Debby
Sperry High School
I thought the 2009 ETD was great! Everything was well organized and I learned a lot of valuable information that I have passed on to my students. And yes, I would love to be a Fellow advisor. Just send me the information that I need so that I can become more familiar with what all being an advisor entails. Also, I would highly recommend this program to my colleagues.
