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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:30:20 EST
From:         Amy Marie Houts <houts@PSS.FIT.EDU>
Subject:      Happy New Year, everyone!

Hi!  Just wanted to let y'all know I'm back in Melbourne.  As usual, I'm
behind on SEDS stuff (attack of the relatives at Christmas kept me from
getting work done--AAARRRGGGHHH!).

I could REALLY use some help on some stuff.  SEDS-FL still hasn't completed
the proposal for its Education Outreach Program, but it should be done fairly
soon.  In the meantime, we are going to start working on it at the first
 meetinng
of Florida Tech SEDS.  We have ten weeks in which to complete six-hour seminars
on the following topics:  weather satellite receiver stations, HAM radio oper
operations, ecologoy/aquaculture, SCUBA, introduction to aviation, observational
astronomy/planetarium operation, model rocketry/rocket design, How to Become an
Astronaut and Other Space Careers, Why Support Space Programs?, Space Policy,
Business, & Law; Space Engineering Design (w/contest?), Space Experiment
 Design--
GAS cans to Sounding Rockets; Space and the Visual and Performing Arts; Space
Life Sciences, Space Psychology, Space Education Programs, Space History,
International Space Programs: A Comparison, and Computer Science and Space.
I know that some of you are working on GAS cans, etc. and have information on
a lot of the above topics.

PLEASE, folks, if you have contact names or general information on the above
areas, please e-mail this stuff to me or mail it to me at:

P.O. Box 1717
Melbourne, FL 32902-1717

I can also be reached at:
(407) 676 - 4573
if you have questions.

These seminar programs will be held initially at the junior/high school level,
but we hope to extend this program throughout Florida to elementary schools/
retirement centers/community centers and everywhere else possible.  This is
a SEDS-FL project, but once we get our seminar formats together, we could
make materials available at the National level.  If other chapters are
 interested
in helping out with the curriculums, etc. or just initiating this as a SEDS
National project, it would be great.  However, I'm sure that each chapter
may want to modify presentations a little.

Also, Col. Gordon Cooper will be speaking at Riverview High School sometime
in May.  I should hear within two weeks on the exact date.  He has given
SEDS permission to use this as an opportunity to obtain publicity for our
organization.  May 15, 1993 is the 30th anniversary of Mercury 9, the last
Mercury program flight (Cooper's flight).  I would like to try to think of
some good reasons to get CNN down to Riverview High School to feature Col.
Cooper, space education, RHS programs (RHS has a planetarium, weather satellite
receiver station, radio telescope, and 8-inch optical telescope), and SEDS!!!!
We have a while to plan this, so if you have ideas on how to best honor a
Mercury astronaut and hype SEDS as much as possible, please let me know!
WE NEED INPUT!!!!!

I need to go catch up on stuff.  Debbie, thanks for the Christmas message! :^)
Jeff, thanks for your patience--when is the next NOVA deadline? :^)

I NEED JANUARY BIRTHDAYS!  :^)  Send 'em to my account, folks. :^)

Take care, and let's make this a terrific year!
Amy :^)
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