Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 22, Number 3, 1 Malaki 2005 — Space teacher program [ARTICLE]

Space teacher program

The Space Foundation is seeking applicants for a scholarship that would fund a Native Hawaiian teacher or a teacher working with Hawaiian students to attend the organization's summer program in Colorado. Eligible applicants include any credentialed teacher working with students pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The Lucy Enos Memorial Scholarship for Teachers is funded by Elliot Pulham, the president and chief executive officer of the Space Foundation, and his wife, Cynthia. The scholarship honors his grandmother, a Native Hawaiian who was born in Pahala, Hawai'i, in 1898. The five-week summer program includes courses that cover topics ranging from rocketry and robotics to astronomy and living and working in space, and eaeh is designed to help teachers use space themes in their classrooms. The selected teacher may elect to receive continuing education or graduate academic credit for the program, and graduate credit may be applied toward one of several master's degrees offered jointly through the Space Foundation and partner universities.

Applicants must write a letter, not longer than two pages, stating the applicant's qualifications and motivation for applying, experience or interest in space themes in the classroom, what the applicant hopes to gain from the experience, whieh course among the five offered at the Summer Institute program the applicant would like to attend and how the knowledge gained will be applied in the classroom. A principal or other supervisor should endorse the application. Applications must be received no later than April 15 for the coming summer session. The recipient will be notified at the beginning of May. Applications should be addressed to Dr. Patricia Amold, Vice President, Education & Workforce Development, The Space Foundation, 310 S. 14th Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904. For more information, visit spacefoundation.org.