Solar Eclipse: Guest Scientist - High-Altitude Ballooning
Tuesday 07/18/2017 
6:30 pm ET (3:30 pm PT)

FREE 1-hour Webinar
Educators in Grades 4-10

The NASA Educator Professional Development Collaborative at
Texas State University is providing a 1-hour webinar.

Participants in this webinar will get an overview of high-altitude ballooning during the eclipses with Bernhard Beck-Winchatz from STEM Studies Department at DePaul University, Chicago, IL.  He has worked on several NASA Projects using weather balloon flights because they provide affordable access to a space-like environment for student research.  


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Dr. Karen Crow Roark is an Education Specialist for the Educator Professional Development Collaborative (EPDC).  She has been in the educational world for over thirty years working as a teacher, assistant principal, and professional development trainer in rural Georgia to the heart of Washington, DC in public, private, and non-profit.  She attended Breanu University, Berry College, State University of West Georgia, University of Sarasota, and University of Georgia.  She received her Doctoral in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Leadership.  In 2001 she received her National Board Teacher Certification.

Some of her accomplishments include receiving a Fulbright Scholar to Japan; working as an Educational Leadership Institute Scholar at Harvard University; participation in the Teacher in Space summer program at Huntsville Space Center; and being named to the National Teacher Hall of Fame. She has had the opportunity to travel to forty-nine of the fifty states and several countries overseas.