The Challenger Center For Space Science Education:

The mission of Space Shuttle Challenger 51-L was Education. But the Shuttle exploded on January 28, 1986.

The Challenger Center for Space Science Education is a non-profit organization that is continuing the education mission of Challenger.

The Challenger Center has established more than 20 Learning Centers across the country, and is actively bringing space education into many thousands of schools where Learning Centers are not nearby.

The latest Challenger Center projects which relate to the Planet Mars are called "Mars City Alpha" and "Marsville."

In Arizona, the contact if you would like to arrange Challenger Center workshops is:

	Lindy J. Pasos
	Challenger Center Western Regional Director
	705 E. Bidwell St., #5-178
	Folsom, CA  95630
	(916) 983-1962

Mars City Alpha Kits:

"Mars City Alpha" is a middle curriculum kit which asks students to work in teams to build a hypothetical city on Mars. In the process, students exercise their problem-solving, decision-making, and creative skills. The "Mars City Alpha" kit comes with a teachers guide, student manuals, posters, and NASA activity sheets for students and their parents. The kit costs $85 plus $5.50 shipping for one to four kits or $4 shipping for five or more kits.

Contact:

	Carrie Berndt-Jeffries
	The Challenger Center for Space Science Education
	1055 N. Fairfax St., Suite 100
	Alexandria, Virginia  22314 
	(703) 683-9740

Marsville:

The purpose of "Marsville" is to create for young people a positive vision of the technological society of the 21st Century and their role in making it a reality. Marsville will lead students to an increased appreciation of the fragility of Earth's environment by using Mars as an analog.

Students work in teams to build Mars habitats large enough to walk into and work in. Teams can be composed of students from different classes or even different schools. Teams communicate their construction plans by written or electronic means. On Link-Up Day, the teams come together in a large area such as a gymnasium or shopping mall to assemble their Marsville base and operate it for the day.

Marsville requires participation in a workshop to train all teachers who will do the Marsville project. For more information, contact Lindy J. Pasos, whose address is above.

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