Webinar
Taking Flight: How Girls Can Grow up to Be Engineers – Internships and Other Opportunities
When:
Thursday, April 22, 1-1:45 p.m. PDT (4-4:45 p.m. EDT)Where:
OnlineTarget Audience:
Girls of any ageOverview:
Do you like solving problems, working with other people, and making a difference? Consider a career in engineering! NASA engineers may help build a spacecraft to shoot through our solar system or soar above our home planet, or they may fly a helicopter above Mars. April is the month of Ingenuity – when the Mars Helicopter will attempt its first flight. In our three-part series of live webinars, meet some female engineers working on the helicopter at NASA/JPL, who will explain how they got their start, share useful tips, and take audience questions.
Each episode will include a brief helicopter update, then focus on a specific career planning topic--including how to get into engineering, and the benefits of internships, camps, and clubs.
Watch Online (Thursday, April 22 at 1 p.m. PDT)
More from this Series
All webinars start at 1 p.m. PDT/4 p.m. EDT and are available on the NASA Mars Exploration website.
- April 15: Chart Your Course – How to match your interests to career opportunities and plan how to achieve your goals.
- April 22: Find Internships and Other Opportunities – Many companies and institutions, including NASA, offer internships where you can work side-by-side with pros, learning as you go.
- April 29: Get Your Ideas Off the Ground – Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Project Manager MiMi Aung and other NASA engineers will explain how they transformed their dreams into reality.
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Student Projects
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Make a Paper Mars Helicopter
Build a paper helicopter, then see if you can improve the design like NASA engineers did when making the first helicopter for Mars.
Subject Engineering
Grades 2-8
Time 30-60 mins
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Code a Mars Helicopter Video Game
Create a video game that lets players explore the Red Planet with a helicopter like the one on Mars with NASA's Perseverance rover!
Subject Technology
Grades 3-8
Time 30-60 mins
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NASA Pi Day Challenge
The entire NASA Pi Day Challenge collection can be found in one, handy slideshow for students.
Grades 4-12
Time Varies
Educator Guides
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Make a Paper Mars Helicopter
In this lesson, students build a paper helicopter, then improve the design and compare and measure performance.
Subject Engineering
Grades 2-8
Time 30-60 mins
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NASA Space Voyagers: The Game
Students play a strategy card game that requires them to use problem-solving to successfully explore the Moon and Mars.
Subject Science
Grades 6-9
Time 1-2 hrs
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Whirling Wonder: A 'Pi in the Sky' Math Challenge
In this illustrated math problem, students use the mathematical constant pi to determine how quickly the Ingenuity helicopter's blades must rotate in order for it to fly.
Grades 9-12
Time Less than 30 minutes
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NASA #CountdownToMars STEM Toolkit
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