STEAM 101: Space Exploration Initiative
February 15, 2019
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative have teamed-up! Thanks to PLIX (Public Library Innovation Exchange), the Library is offering a FREE six-week series Climate CubeSat Co-building Outreach Program.
The Public Library Innovation Exchange is a Knight Foundation-funded grant project to build collaborations between MIT Media Lab researchers and public libraries across the United States. Other libraries that have participated in a Media Lab project include the Chicago Public Library.
STEAM 101: Space Exploration Initiative will take place at Morrison Regional Library beginning Tuesday, March 5, 2019 and will end on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. All sessions will run from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The Library’s series will allow you to participate in hands-on learning and science experiments, engage in design thinking and space exploration, and discover CubeSat co-building in this innovative 6-week series. The series will culminate in a cap stone project.
A CubeSat is a cube-shaped satellite that can be small enough to fit in the palm of your hand or as big as a large shoebox. The ones that students will be making at the Library will focus on climate science and earth-observation measurements.
The Space Exploration Initiative is open to pre-teens, teens and adults. Space is limited for this series, so registration is required for each session.
Register here.