from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

JPL and NASA will be well represented at California's premier professional gathering for science educators Friday through Sunday, Oct. 21-23, at the Pasadena Convention Center. Numerous talks and workshops will feature Mars exploration, water in the solar system and uses of NASA data in the classroom. There will also be an exhibit area featuring a full-scale model of NASA's Curiosity, the car-sized rover about to embark from Earth to Mars. Details, including multi-day and single-day registration information, are at: http://www.cascience.org/csta/conf_home11.asp

Who should attend? Classroom science teachers (Pre-K-12), science specialists, science coaches, district and county science coordinators, home school educators, preservice science teachers, university and college science teacher educators, and informal science educators.

Full conference registration includes access to all 250 workshop and commercial workshop sessions (Friday, Saturday and Sunday), two general sessions (one on Friday and one on Sunday), two evening events (Friday and Saturday nights), admittance into the exhibit hall (open on Friday and Saturday) and seven focus speakers (Friday and Saturday).

Weekend-only registration includes workshops and commercial workshops on Saturday and Sunday, the general session on Sunday, the exhibit hall on Saturday, the Saturday evening event and the focus speaker sessions on Saturday.

Learn more at http://www.cascience.org/csta/conf_home11.asp

For more on JPL Education, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education