Hi, STEM for All attendees! As you'll hear in our video, we have developed a 7-module digital curriculum for high school through college students to explore the science profession by designing an experiment and writing a research proposal. The videos and worksheets are intended for educators to use with their students/mentees, or for students to use independently.

We'd love to hear your questions and perspectives about the project in the Discussion below.

We're currently piloting this curriculum through UMD College Park's Terps in Space program.

We'd love to partner with educators across the US and world to either pilot our current version of the program, or use our final version, expected in Fall 2022.

If you're an educator, organizer, student, etc. and would like to provide feedback about these ideas and/or to collaborate on such initiatives, we'd love to hear from you in the comments or directly.

Really love learning about space as a educator and teacher myself. I am currently a graduate student, love it if you offered a scholarship to learn this and give it back to my classroom students. Extroidinary information for teachers. 

Thanks to all for the great video, and the great project. I really appreciate the integrated nature of the project, pulling in both conceptual ideas authentic experience/practice from so many different disciplines (module 5 in particular seems really useful). I also think the authentic opportunities available through the Terps in Space Program are great-both in terms of research/design learning opportunities and the opportunity to put a payload in space. 

I'm curious about impact and outcomes-you've talked about piloting this curriculum to create a publicly available version soon, but could you talk a little more about how you're thinking about exploring the curriculum's efficacy (defined around whatever dimensions of efficacy you think are appropriate)? 

How are you thinking about scaling the program once the public curriculum is available? As the project/curriculum scales, how much capacity do you have within the existing programmatic/partnership framework to continue supporting authentic opportunities like the Terps in Space design challenge?  

Again, great program and video. 

 Hello Daniel and Terps Team! What a cool way to support and enhance access to an immersive experience in being a space scientist with a design challenge that could actually be picked up in the future. I look forward to your thoughts on Jeff's questions related to efficacy and scaling. In addition, it would be fascinating to hear about some of the proposals you have already seen in development. What sorts of experiments are participants designing? Thanks in advance for sharing more about your work. 

TERPS seems like a good curriculum to encourage greater engagement of high school students in space science. The idea of "scientists" to "writing a proposal" is a very good way to show students how space science is an exciting frontier. However, it is less clear what the modules would delve into on the sciences of space. Also, much of space science teaching seems to lack hands-on work at the high school level, I worry if this curriculum would be any different. I would encourage to see more hands-on work rather than just "thought experiments without hands-on tools".

Nice presentation on space science. Please, how cost effective are your instrumentations in acquiring experimental data? Are there simulated devices to acquire data for the project?