Boeing Awards $50,000 to Challenger Learning Center-St. Louis
Grant money to provide opportunities for teachers
The Challenger Learning Center-St. Louis has received a $50,000 grant from The Boeing Company to provide funding for kindergarten through-eighth grade teachers at underserved schools to participate in programs at the Center. Eligible teachers will receive funding for a one-day training workshop, curriculum materials and a student program.
Program options are the Voyage to Mars™ or Rendezvous with a Comet™ simulated space mission for fifth- through eighth-grade teachers and the new Micronauts program for kindergarten through fourth-grade teachers. Applications are available through the Challenger Learning Center's Web site at www.clcstlouis.org or by calling (314) 521-6205.
“Boeing is proud to support this exceptional program and provide the opportunity to teachers who might not otherwise be able to participate. By helping teachers get this experience, we are ultimately helping our future generation of engineers, scientists and astronauts,” says Randy Maier, Education Relations Manager at Boeing.
The award-winning Challenger Learning Center, located at 205 Brotherton Road in Ferguson, offers space education programs for schools, scouts, and corporate groups as well as for the general public. It features state-of-the-art simulators, including an orbiting space station and a Mission Control center, where participants experience activities performed by NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers.
The Challenger Learning Center-St. Louis is a partnership of the
Ferguson-Florissant School District, the St. Louis Science Center
and the Cooperating School Districts and is part of the Challenger
Center for Space Science Education, an international not-for-profit
education organization founded in April 1986 by the families of the
astronauts tragically lost during the Challenger space shuttle
mission.
For more information, please contact: Tasmyn Scarl Front, Director,
Challenger Learning Center-St. Louis, at (314) 524-3490x101 or
visit www.clcstlouis.org.
