The purpose of this proposal is to engage middle school students, the k-12 community, and the public in NASA's magnetospheric multiscale (MMS) mission by implementing a steam (science, technology,…

The purpose of this proposal is to engage middle school students, the k-12 community, and the public in NASA's magnetospheric multiscale (MMS) mission by implementing a steam (science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics) after school programs that leverages the integration of MMS learning activities to include professional education workshops presented at the international society of technology education (iste), a NASA MMS steam camp and an after school robotics program. To engage the k-12 community and the public with the MMS mission, NASA, the university of north texas, and dublin independent school district are proposing to implement a steam program to include the arts using an advanced fabrication technique known as 3D printing to promote excitement surrounding NASA's MMS 2014 mission, space weather, engineering, magnetospheric physics, and introducing students to stem career pathways. Student productions and reflections will be shared with a larger community to include both educational and public outreach events. The program will provide a series of educator workshops to the global community leveraging the recently produced MMS educator guide, the MMS challenge, the MMS transmedia book and promoting of the integration of the MMS career video series into k-12 learning. Several professional development workshops will be held during and after the steam program to share best practices to an international community of k-12 educators and stakeholders. Dublin LSD piloted the MMS challenge during the summer steam camp of 2012 and hosted a NASA national student summit in april of 2012 to help generate excitement about NASA's MMS mission. Student experiences included hosting a digital art, physics, and robotics exhibition. Although dublin LSD is a small and rural school, the impact of disd steam camp led to an after school robotics program during the fall of 2012. Dublin LSD is now extremely active in stem activities both during and after-school. The NASA MMS challenge was piloted in dublin LSD during the spring of 2012 and during dublin ISD's steam 2012 camp. The program was featured at ascd 2012 fall conference, iste 2012, tcea 2013, NASA sun earth day, site 2013 and iste 2013. This program would provide dublin LSD and NASA the opportunity to extend on the previous experiences to focus on solar renewable energy and to pilot a fabrication unit to build academic vocabulary relating to renewable energies, solar weather, and magnetic space topics.