Celebrating ISS Technology: Baking Cookies in Space?
Thursday 02/25/2021
6:00 pm ET
FREE 1-hour Webinar
Students, Parents, & Educators in Grades K-16
 
The NASA Educator Professional Development Collaborative at
Texas State University is providing a 1-hour webinar.

With a human crewed mission to Mars potentially taking up to five years to complete, the challenge of providing nutritious, tasty food that will promote astronaut health is a formidable one. In this webinar celebrating 20 years of continuous human presence aboard the ISS, we'll explore the Zero-G Oven technology that could one day provide fresh-baked food for astronauts, boosting their psychological and physiological well-being during long-duration spaceflight. Relevant instructional resources will also be included.


Dr. Anne Weiss is the Education Professional Development Specialist at Langley Research Center, which serves Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. Anne originally trained as a neuroscientist, which included a research assignment in genetics at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. Since 1998, Anne has taught Earth science, chemistry & biochemistry, physical science, human anatomy & physiology, and general biology at the K-12 and higher education levels. As a graduate assistant, Anne served as Community Manager of the NASA Educators Online Network (NEON), the subject of her dissertation on online teacher professional development, for the NASA Aerospace Education Services Project (AESP). Anne earned a B.S. in Vertebrate Physiology (with history minor) from the Pennsylvania State University, a M.S. in Physiology from the Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the Pennsylvania State University.