Stem k-12 Outreach Award 2014-2015 Section Name: Northern Ohio Name of Person Submitting

The Harry Staubs STEM K-12 Outreach Award is presented to sections that have developed and implemented an outstanding STEM K-12 Outreach program that meets the general goals of the AIAA, such as 1) increasing Educator Associate membership, 2) recognizing Educator performance, and 3) increasing the number of actively engaged members, particularly in the area of STEM K-12 outreach.

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  No NOS Educator Associates received awards from the AIAA during this reporting period.
  

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    1/12/15 - Distinguished Lecture: “Historical Perspectives and Personalities In Compressible Fluid Flow ": Professor Theo (Ted) Keith made a welcome return to the Ohio Aerospace Institute and the AIAA Northern Ohio Section on June 12, where he gave an informative and often amusing lecture on the history and people of compressible fluid flow studies, dating back to the very beginnings of the topic. Luminaries such as Mach, Newton, and Rankine were discussed, in terms of not only their accomplishments, but also their personal lives, and, in some cases, their errors.
  
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  1/27/15 – Distinguished Lecture and Refreshments: "The Future of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in Northern Ohio": Mr. Matthew Mishak, Director of the Northern Ohio Unmanned Aircraft Systems Association (NOUASA), enlightened an audience of nearly 100 attendees on the global market of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Mr. Mishak, whose interests range from the robust and developing field of UAS law and policy to the design and manufacturing of UAS from the ground up, shared small unmanned aerial vehicle models with the audience as well as his UAS experience with photos during the presentation.
  
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  5/12/15 – Distinguished Lecture and Refreshments: “Green Propulsion Technologies for Advanced Air Transports”: Dr. Rubén Del Rosario, Manager of the Advanced Air Transport Technology Project in NASA’s Advanced Air Vehicles Program of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, enlightened an audience of nearly 40 attendees on the comprehensive challenge of enabling groundbreaking energy efficiency improvements in subsonic transport aircraft combined with dramatic reductions in harmful emissions and perceived noise to facilitate sustained growth of the air transportation system.
  
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  6/25/14 - Girls Explore STEM Careers: Aapproximately 20 Girl Scouts from Grades 8 through 12 (with about a dozen leaders and parents) participated in a day-long program filled with hands-on design challenges, Lewis Field facility tours, and a career panel. NOS members Nancy Hall, Julie Kleinhenz, Alan Hylton, and Daniel Raible took part.
  
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  6/24/14 – NOS member Kim Otten helped present an overview of the Multi-Propose Crew Vehicle Program and Spacecraft Fire Safety Demonstration (SFS-Demo) project on June 24, 2014, to a half dozen teachers from around the country associated with the NASA Explorer Schools Program.
  
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  7/21/14 – NOS members Geoff Landis, Jeremiah McNatt, Bryan Palaszewski, Matt Melis and Jim Free participated in Space Adventure Week at the NASA Glenn Visitors Center in the Great Lakes Science Center. The week included public speaking on aerospace topics and a display table on NASA technologies.
  
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  8/18/14 – NOS member Nancy Hall presented on microgravity at a one-day workshop, Training the Trainers, for teachers from eastern Ohio.
  
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  11/14/14 – NOS member Michael Piszczor visited Assumption Academy, in Broadview Heights, Ohio, on November 24, 2014, to talk to the school’s Science Club. The Science Club consists of approximately 40 third, fourth, and fifth-graders and meets on a monthly basis after school.
  
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  12/2, 4-5/14 – NOS member Wesley Johnson participated in several educational outreach events at the Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC), including a school day and an Orion EFT-1 launch party.
  
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  1/29/15 - Several NOS members volunteered as judges for the annual science fair at the Assumption Academy, in Broadview Heights, Ohio,
  
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  1/31/15 – NOS member Bryan Palaszewski presented “Water Throughout the Solar System” at the Solon Middle School’s “Science Olympiad”. In addition to the 700 students, about 300 parents attended. The presentation covered the ubiquitous nature of water on most of the rocky planets, asteroids, and moons of the solar system.
  
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  4/18/15 – Member Ashlie Flegel was part of a panel that spoke to roughly 1,500 students, teacher, and parents about their NASA careers, experience with STEM, and STEM opportunities at the STEM Conference 2015.
  
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  4/17/15 – Bryan Palasewski pariticipated in the one day program “Stars of STEM”. This was a pilot program for a total of 63 students from several local middle schools to participate in an NASA Exploration Design Challenge (based in radiation shielding) and a biomedical challenge.
  
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  5/13/15 – Julie Kleinhenz and Bryan Palasewski served on the judging team for the NASA Special award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Pittsburgh, PA.  More than 1300 high-school students from over 75 countries participate in ISEF as finalists from their regional and state science fairs.
  

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  Future City Competition: NOS member Danielle Koch led 18 8th grade students from St. Ambrose School in Brunswick, Ohio in the Future City Competition. The students won fifth place in the Ohio Regional Competition held on January 17, 2014, at Columbus State Community College. The team also won two Honorable Mention Awards, one for Best Use of Water Resources Engineering and one for Best Computer City Design.
  
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  Northern Ohio Section Judged and Sponsored Awards for Area Science Fairs: The AIAA Northern Ohio Section sponsored special awards at both the Annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF) and the Northwest Ohio District 2 Science Day. These regional science fairs are for local middle and high school students. In all, members from AIAA NOS judged and awarded over $600 in awards to projects with an aerospace focus. (March Newsletter )
  
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    The Northwest Ohio District 2 Science Day, which took place on Saturday March 14, 2015 at the University of Toledo, is the regional science fair for students in grades 5-12 from Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Williams, and Wood counties. Judges Ashlie Flegel and Mac Kuieck awarded three prizes.
    
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    The 62nd Annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF), which took place on Tuesday March 10, 2015 at Cleveland State University, is open to all students in grades 7-12 from Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Summit counties. Judges Valerie Lyons, Jason Wolf, and Erin Tesny awarded 6 prizes.
    
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  22nd consecutive Young Astronaut’s Day Program, 11/1/14: AIAA NOS continued their traditional program exposing over 350 children grades 1 – 12 to math, science, and aerospace engineering. More than 70 volunteers from across NASA, industry, and academia also helped bring STEM and aerospace to the group. Student registration for the event filled up in record time: two days for the older students and within nine hours for the young students, with a waiting list of 15 teams. This year’s eight activities all related to aspects of a lunar mission (for the 15 teams of 1-6th grade students) and a Mars mission (for the 15 teams of the 7-12th grade students Please list any STEM education activities where section members got involved in a section activity for the first time (or nearly first time). (December Newsletter )
  
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    The biggest participation is in our signature outreach event, Young Astronaut Day. Over 70 volunteers are needed to make this event possible. While many return each year, there are a variety of new participants every year. This year our new volunteers included members from the AIAA Cleveland State University Student Branch.
    
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    NOS sponsored award for two regional science fairs and provided judges for those awards. Several of the judges were first time volunteers for the NOS council.
    
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  Selection committee for the AIAA Foundation Educator Achievement award: The NOS Stem K-12 chairmen was one of 5 reviewers to serve on the selection committee for the 2015 AIAA Foundation Educator Achievement award.
  

Support of AIAA Signature STEM K-12 events:

The section has run the Young Astronaut Day program for 22 years. The event is sponsored and clearly branded as an AIAA (on program booklets, banners, media releases, etc). This is a large scale event (350 students, 75+ chaperones/teachers, 70+ event volunteers) that has grown extremely popular and recognizable to local area schools and student organizations. It should be noted that the magnitude of this event makes it the signature STEM activity for the section, and it is performed in lieu of many of the AIAA developed programs likes Engineers and Educators and Educator Academy. YAD provides a real world opportunity for engineers to try their hand and education and provides educators (the student chaperones who are often teachers) ideas and activities to take back to their classroom.

In addition for this year, the section took advantage of the unique opportunity of a national AIAA conference, the Propulsion and Energy Forum, being hosted in Cleveland. NOS organized from scratch for this event was an Aerospace STEM Lab, in which 30 high school girls were given the opportunity to try their hands at a variety of aerospace, propulsion and energy related design challenges to experience the principles of rocket propulsion and power systems. The event took place at and during the Propulsion and Energy Forum, and thus served as an open house to provide an outreach opportunity for the P&E conference attendees who were encouraged to visit, offer guidance on the design challenges, and provide inspiration to pursue potential STEM careers, or just to observe the activities and take ideas back home. Therefore, the event combined both outreach to local students and an opportunity for conference participants try their hand as ‘engineers as educators’. This event was a unique collaboration between NOS representatives (planning, staffing, logistics, supplies), AIAA staff (facility), and local Cleveland outreach collaborators (student recruiting and transportation).

A complementary activity for the Forum was a section/Region III display available to all attendees. On the last day of the conference, one of the winning science fair students, Sara Anjum, accepted an invitation to attend the conference and present a poster on her award winning study, “Galactic Structure Evolution,” to interested conference attendees. One of her audience was AIAA Executive Director, Dr. Sandy Magnus, who had also participated in the STEM Lab. (December Newsletter )

Has the section participated in Engineers as Educators Workshop?

No.

Has the section participated in the AIAA Educator Academy? No. If so, have you identified a local facilitator for the workshop? No.

Have you started to plan a local competition? The Young Astronaut Day event is a local competition planned and organized by NOS annually.

Please detail any innovative local programs that have worked for your section.

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  The Young Astronaut Day activity, mentioned numerous times here, is our signature local STEM program that is in its 22^nd year.
  
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  The Aerospace STEM Lab represented a unique opportunity that the section used to capitalize on a national caliber technical conference being held in our area.
  
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  While the statistics are not specifically captured, the NOS membership is extremely active in a variety of outreach efforts including with the NASA speakers Bureau, NASA tours, student mentorships, tutoring of students from inner-city schools and underrepresented groups, organizing large scale outreach events with the local Girl Scouts, and many more.