Since 1990 the Mars Workshop has been educating K-12 teachers in areas such as engineering, physics, and astronomy. Building and launching rockets has been a fun and rewarding element of the Mars Workshop.
High emphasis is placed on multi cultural views.
Participants tour facilities at the Space Dynamics Lab in Logan, UT, the Thiokol plant in Tremonton, UT, and the USU campus. Other topics and activities have included the Hubble Telescope, microgravity, digital multispectral imaging, remote sensing, space travel, and simulating a trip to Mars. The 1999 Mars Workshop held June 21-25 was a great success. Together with the students in attendance they built modle rockets for an afternoon launch and toured the Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, and the Thiokol grounds just outside of Tremonton. Speakers ranged from Utah weather news climatologists and university educators to NASA engineers.