Friday, February 14, 2025
9am EST Bruce Waggoner, Mission Assurance Manager at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech (Zoom)
10am EST Shayla Redmond, STEM educator, mechanical engineer, app developer, and NASA Solar System Ambassador (Zoom)
Title: Astronomical Observations- Bridging Knowledge Through Storytelling, Education, and Innovation
11am EST Ashley Yeager, Associate Editor at Science News (Zoom)
Title: What is the Value of Space Journalism?
12pm EST Break for Lunch
12:30pm EST Andy Calloway, Flight Operations Manager for Dragonfly and experienced Mission Operations Manager for space missions, including OSIRIS-REx and MESSENGER (Zoom)
1:30pm EST Joni Greene, composer (Zoom)
Title: Sounds of the Cosmos: Musical Inspiration Through Astrophysics Using Synesthesia
2:30pm EST - Barbara Brennan, exhibition designer for the National Air and Space Museum (ret.) (Zoom)
Title: UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION DESIGN
4pm-5:30pm EST - In-person events at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center
4:00pm EST - Workshop event #1: (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center, all ages)
Title: Acoustics- Sounds Like Fun!
4:00pm EST - Workshop event #2: Padnos College of Engineering Outreach, GVSU (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center, kids under 10 will need an adult partner to help with construction )
Title: Mission: Satellite Launch
4:00pm EST - Live panel discussion on communicating scientific ideas through visual arts (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center's Loosemore Auditorium)
Title: "Drawing Connections: How Art Makes Science Come Alive"
5:30 pm EST – Reception and Viewing of Design That! Design Challenge Entries (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center)
6:30pm EST – Astronaut John Herrington, PhD. (ret.) (in-person at the Loosemore Auditorium, GVSU Pew Campus, DeVos Center, also via Zoom)