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From: "Anita M. Sohus"
Subject: Deadline Extended: Mars Phoenix Student Interns Program

Application Deadline has been extended to Wednesday May 9:

The Phoenix Student Interns Program (PSIP) is a unique opportunity to become part of the Phoenix Science Team for the 2007-2008 Phoenix Mars Lander Mission. From around the country, selected teachers and their chosen students will work with scientists to prepare for surface operations on Mars, analyze data during the mission, and reach out to other students, teachers, and the public through presentations, articles, and web sites. Following months of preparation and special training, teachers and students will spend one week at the Science Operations Center in Tucson, AZ during landed operations to help investigate the surface of Mars. It could be you!

Informal educators are welcome to apply but should make a case for how you will extend the impact of your participation (since you may not have a traditional classroom into which you can disseminate what you learn). Also, you'll need to share your qualifications for being able to support the scientific activities.

Download information and application materials from http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/edu_psip.php

If you have any questions about the program or application process, please contact Cassie Bowman at cbowman@mail.arc.nasa.gov or 650-269-2787.

posted by Jeff Adkins  # 6:54 PM 0 comments

The View - Science Festival April 21

Science Festival April 21
Science Festival 2007 will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Science and VBT buildings. Parking and admission is free.

The College of Science faculty, staff and students are hosting Science Festival 2007, a tradition going back to 1974. We're not only celebrating this tradition, but CSUEB's 50th anniversary, Astronomy Day and the International Heliophysical Year 2007!

Our festival is being billed as a Day of Learning and Adventure for the Curious of All Ages!!; an opportunity for the young and old to experience science. We'll have demonstrations, experiments, hands-on activities, exhibits, lectures and much, much more! Watch a chemistry magic show, observe the sun with a telescope, geophysical prospecting, fossil casting, mathematical puzzles, computer simulations and dancing DNA are just a few of our activities planned.

Representatives from Chabot Space and Science Center, Eastbay Astronomical Society, Stanford Solar Center, Vintage Computer Festival, Computer History Museum, Alameda County Mosquito District and PG&E will also be participating.

Please join us!

For more information, contact 510-885-3441

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars-probe failure 'human error': "The US space agency, Nasa, has said that human error was to blame for the failure of the $154m (�77.5m) Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.

Engineers lost contact with the probe in early November and later admitted it was lost and irrecoverable.

Nasa said that faulty changes made to the spacecraft's computer memory caused the battery to overheat.

The 10-year-old craft had sent thousands of images of Mars back to Earth, suggesting water once flowed."