Perhaps in 12 minutes but close enough. Of course i go ahead. I will announce at the next speaker in panel. I had been asked to be really short introduction. James green is the director of Planetary Science and i think that hes always been there since 1979. I think he really knows what its all about. Jim, i think we have a wonderful International Panel this morning and i will introduce each of our Panel Members the first one is saved. He is a member of the emirates Strategic Planning team. The team and its duties are to ensure that the impact of the journey to mars would be sustainable leaving and everlasting effect. He is also the cofounder of a Youtube Channel that aims at making Science Technology accessible to our youth in that area. Has been quite successful. [applause]. Next he works at the Mission Operations and integration center. In japan. He received his degree in the Space Systems engineering section. For an autonomous walking robot under microgravity environment. He is currently in charge of that in terms of the main lead. Lets introduce him. Thank you. Our third panel member this morning he is from the Space Corporation and he has been the project Design Authority he holds a degree in physics with the university of noah he has specialized in control systems and Digital Electronics and system engineering. The Design Authority a space for italys science and exploration activities. How we had organized the panel today. Relative to the science thrust. All of the International Program this of course is truly an exciting time it was mostly the u. S. Space agency. And what we see happening over the last seven years is not only new additions to mars. The mom mission. But also new plans that will make this really exciting from an international perspective. It is shown on the over you and some of the plans. There are a significant number of orbiters doing great. These are the odyssey missions from napa. The mars express. And the maven orbiter and as i mentioned the mom orbiter. Currently on the surface we had two that are operating quite well. One is opportunity that had landed in 2004 that 90 day wonder that just keeps on working. Continuing it to do some very exciting times. And then sitting in gail crater at the shoreline of the ancient oceans curiosity and is going quite well. It landed in 2012. It is continuing to make some spectacular measurements as it starts to have up. In 2018 may of next year nasa will be launching the Insight Mission this is not a rover. Is a platform it will sit at a location just a few Degrees North of where curiosity is and as a platform is designed to take measurements my drilling into the surface and measuring the heat flow as a planet continues to admit heat and start cooling down from its initial accretion for a halfbillion years ago. Who also plopped down onto the surface a seismic instrument ever made. And at mars it will detect what we believe our natural but also impacts that are occurring on a regular basis based on media rights that are coming into the atmosphere all the time. To try to understand much more about the structure of mars but also how those resources can be used for human exploration. The 2020 opportunity that begins in july will begin with a huge array of missions. I think its sort of like the highway to mars. It opens up and that one is going to be packed and we start out the top of that opportunity with the space space x launch of a red dragon that will be followed at the end of the opportunity we believe with another red dragon. Those head been announced by space asked. But in addition to that nest that will be launching the 2020 rover. This is the rover for what we havent exactly selected a site there three sites in contention to which they are areas in which we would consider on the shoreline of the ancient ocean from mars. But also where we believe there has been a blowing of water. Of thermal activity. Deep in the past. We have to down select from those three coming up soon. In addition to that nasa will launch we will launch xo marv marge roller. It will make another number of measurements. China has also announced that it is launching in orbiter. It will have a rover move out and begin to interrogate the surface. They have announced the hope mission which will be the solar wind interaction. What a spectacular opening of the highway and what will be happening. And then as we move into that decade 2024 they have announced they would be designed to interrogate. As i always like to think about it. They are really the space station up mars. And then later on in the decade is more plants. Both from potentially the samples that are created. There is a brief scientific overview. Its not go where no human has gone before. It is really the pioneering efforts that are being laid out and executed by that. And so to say need to talk about the uaes activity. We believe that as he said we are at the cusp of the new age of exploration. You can say that we believe as well that in order for us to move into the future the Space Exploration is the next step. To be able to contribute to that. Im supposed to have a clicker but i will just move to the next slide. Now what you forgot to mention as well as a Program Director of the new program of that march 2117 program. In as i said our mission and our vision in our vision is quite simple. They took planetary travel. Now how we might achieve that vision is by establishing a lasting colony on mars with international collaboration. We want to embed discussion. We want to focus as well on research and development. As well as collaborating. They are enabled. We want to enable the youth to play an active role in housing the global efforts for other ones of those. Were going to do everything. Based on the resources in the challenges that are presented. If we look at this. We see ourselves as supporters and some we see as orchestrators. We bring two different entities together. With some of these programs that have not been there yet. Now some of you may ask why are you guys really doing this . Simply we live in a rough neighborhood in that part of the world. With the neighborhood that has over a hundred million youth with 35 unemployment. One is that these numbers create a negative section. We wanted to show them that. Youd be able to uplift your. To show a message that through science and technology in Space Exploration we can contribute and do good. I am open for questions. Thank you. Lets now switch i would like to say thank you very much to give me a chance. With the exploration and now we made that with a scenario we have just finished the heart examination with the exploration scenario. With the integrated scenario and as you can see the upper left side. The human exploration mission. This scenario is very easy to divide most of them now have the fight. Our final goal in our mission is very important. How do i say that. The luna or the luna soffit. How to make enough to have the mission. The affordability or the effectiveness. This integrated scenario has a very big pissed picture. Its very important. So my next step is to dilute it. The next slide please. Of course we have already cooperated with us. It shows on this slide. Now the next step is on the moon. Or if we can with the topic of the moon. So it is one idea. The human to mars mission to make it more convenient. With the japanese integration. But maybe with that. Thank you. Thank you very much. The big scenario to show up. The mission in which they had been involving the last year. They are articulated it has taken place. It has taken a space craft to mars. The Second Mission is to believe that. In july 2020 and you can see from this slide in the presentation the two missions the First Mission in 2016. It is made of two spacecraft. It provides the communications for the future assets to be launched there. And landing that type. In october of last year. They arrived 4 kilometers there. In the same to do the last part of information. And that population problem. The Second Mission is the one in which they have now provided that at least for the exploration. It is also launched there and is with the it will bring to them a big lander containing that. About about 350 kilograms approximately. The mission of which in search of a presence of life is led by our company which is in a tight company. Those that were in the premises. For the 2020 mission we are the major contribution from germany. The design in the development and manufacturing testing of that model. With the contribution is from russia. To have that. With significant parts with the guidance and control of the model itself based on experience that we have acquired and finally it is produced by the uk also a good contribution from italy. They will provide that. To come back to the 2016 mission there was a primary objective. Into the landing on mars i used to say that we have demonstrated the objectives because we have that. With a very good fitting with our simulation and forecast we didnt do the landing unfortunately. I would say we did a hard landing. Lets say unfair. But nevertheless we now have an orbiter around mars which is doing pretty will it is landing to identify that in fact it is going to that. It is a longer breaking season. And today is doing pretty well. The task is already provided. Providing the communication between the demonstrating module six minutes of transmission not a lot full of it that we will use it for the 2020 mission. Besides that they will provide an important science contribution by looking for the traces of gases it might be an important place of existence or the life on mars. The 2020 mission as i said before is much more complex to finding that existence of life. And for this there is a very complex that will provide all the extra mental means to find this with existing life. It is also equipped which will allow us to dig into the subsequent face. The depth of 2meter which is the support it is very easily the possibility. This will be the right one to start with. This is the orbiter together. It was mounted on top of the spacecraft that you can see in this picture also the big 2. 2meter diameter in which you can see that by the orbiter to communicate with the earth. And here with the landing the name of the famous italian astronomer who was one of the pioneer in the planet. At the end of the 80s. Of the 19th century. With a picture of the film it was supposed to protect it from the high friction and actually did its work. They are trying to prove that it was well protected. At the right time. When the functions separate. The overview of the 2020 mission. With a composite in the left is 1200 kilograms. On the right with the first one that is coming in. It is the first one which is being manufactured. It is now right before the testing. Of course this is more than that. And finally this 2020 mission on the left side we are deployed. On the ride to extend. With the elliptical with the important part it was rather complex. Which is now we are mounting or assembling the model of it. And in fact this one is a view on the left side of this. It is a good representation of the final flight one. With the station of the model. Which is been attested now. Ive seen it working a few days ago. I think this is it. Thank you very much. [applause]. I think this gives us a great opportunity. If we can turn up the lights. Thanks to all of you. That might change. It remains an interest in treatment of microgravity. They are trying to prove the adequacy during the interplanetary portion. Another has been consideration in japan of the possibility of demonstrating it. Can you toss where that stands. [inaudible] that was the budget for that important program. It is to the chief translator. How do i say. Maybe if we can try to with it transportation. We wish you success thank you so much. My question is the specific to the uae. Youd be able to provide such beneficial products for the weather and improving the life of those who are living in the farmlands and everything. With that comes your political support. In regards to that social pressure that youre going to feel. What are they going to provide for that. Can you just repeat your question. In regard to the social pressure that you face. You currently made products that were great for the average citizen but what does marge had to do with them. With the niche leadership that you mentioned earlier. Is a very good question. Even though that they are currently there this week. A lot of people dont understand im sure you can understand why they dont get why humanity is there. Whenever you start to explain that a lot of the water filters that are used today that are used in rural areas give them water they come out with a spinoff from space. And they go okay. Invest more in that. Once you show them the spinoff and how todays modern society is based on Space Exploration to a large extent people start to understand has just that that asked the a lot of the efforts was in the awareness aspect. With the mission and allowing the people to understand why were doing it was a vital aspect in making sure that it is sustainable. So we are were focusing on awareness and it was and still is a big aspect of all of our mission and we are gradually starting to see our get the acceptance of going to mars. One aspect is and that is where we got a lot of those positive feedback. We commend you you guys are at least investing in space. Because someone has to. It needs a homegrown model. Good luck. My name is jonathan. It is really exciting to see from different parts of the world especially hearing from the uae. I really commend you for this effort. We talk about multilateral work between countries and i wanted to ask all of you how has the multiple lateral work have a hope that you bring the knowledge that you work with. In years to come thank you. I will start with that. They continue with some of our missions. It is really important. We are going to continue to do that and grow it as other nations. We welcome. I understand from the questions here that there is a lot of interesting concerns on what to do. With the exploration. In the solar system. If we can get from people in the human kind. I think that we are faced with that. The important point of the human investigation. It is the humidity lesson. It is also to explore and to try to improve i would say even independently from the final time. Has something that is within the human kind. Therefore i think there must be a mix up prize in investment. We have to design our future in that way. For us we have started the space program. And the way we started that phase was we spent that to south korea. They stay there for almost a decade. We brought back to that knowledge. They are collaborating with universities and others the method in which we were doing this. To transfer knowledge. For us it was very important. We are working to transition that knowledge. Into the Space Exploration. And we are currently seeing a lot of interest we had when people from all over social media asking can we just join that. We are seeing that human aspect. Mars is the platform of creating hope. And to make sure that if you can get to mars you can do anything. You see berkeley. I have a question for the xo mars mission. Specifically the life detection with the controversy. And the dilemmas that came because they detected life initially. With the exception of that. It went away. The investigator will tell you that he found life on mars. So what ended up overruling him and his other experiments was something that resonates with all of us. Extranet claims require extraordinary evidence. In life must be the explanation of last resort. You are sending a craft to search for life. That will be embroiled unless you had addressed how those experiments will do what they couldnt do. Im very curious how youre going to do that. To answer this question goes into a scientific aspect the elaborate nest. With those taken. Of the terrain and there are three experiments. They are supposed to perform in on board. And inside to take 20 or 25 now. I dont remember that. And now they take the subject deck. This can give a good probability of success. Actually we think that the experiment should avoid the work that is happening for instance with that. That gave only one proof. I think with that we will have to end. It was a very exciting time. [applause]. The program said that there would be a mystery guest from hollywood. A special message. Something just as good i think. They would engage and educate. It is a method to exchange. Standing up in front of an audience expecting a hollywood celebrity is certainly risky business. I am pleased to help transition us to a discussion focused on inspiring the martians of tomorrow. As we had been discussing getting humans to mars is a challenging task. We need to cultivate the future workforce. And to begin with we need to motivate abroad audience to actually care about humans going to mars why we are going how we are going to get there and what were gonna do to make them feel really involved in the process. They are possibly disappointed about having we want to give people a chance to turn the lights in the camera on. And have them tell the story of the mars explanation. Im pleased to let you know. Its an activity opening later this month. Inviting college in early career professionals to visualize the journey to mars. The activity supported by nasa and several fls partners. It will remain open for an entire year. And culminate in a screening event. We will have some key figures. Please visit the website or contact me. Now exploring mars likely out longterm human activity. We would also like to help our current children to feel a part of this human story encouraging them to be part of our future. All of the analytical skills required. But we also want them to be able to communicate. And then fostering. I would like to just briefly mentioned that we are also developing a second science integrated with our activity to inspire and educate now children. Potentially partnering with us. Just let me know. In the next coming session is really important. We engage and educate. Working together we could inspire the world about space humans to mars. Thank you very much. Mike mike i now have the great pleasure to announce one of the future generation. And to face it. Much i would like to go. There must be better younger seated people. Im talking about that. It has a passion for space. And for them they are very happy that we have him with us today here. Echo, come up. Thank you. I am so excited to be able to be here today. Be part of the human to mars movement. In im looking for to this great experience the scientist policymakers and experts from nasa and beyond. As a child growing up during the end of the Space Shuttle era they have always been fascinated to me. I believe it is an unnecessary part of our very existence. It was only something that we should do but it was something that we need to do because we need to mix countless scientific advancements. While he may not had been scientist the leaders in Space Exploration certainly followed the rewards of ralph emerson. Go instead where there was no past my generation has the undeniable opportunity to be part of something that was larger than itself. The entire human race. To accomplish this goal of humans reaching mars there is an exact guideline to follow. Yet one thing is for certain. I combining combining the creativity and passion. The experiences of people there. Success is not a farfetched dream. It can be a reality. In the next few minutes i will share a few from a student point of view. Why we need to go to mars. Why my generation believe it. What country is better served to do so than the United States after america. The very country that landed the first man on the moon. Scientific research and space has improved life here enlarge. The nasa Spinoff Program has brought Great Technology such as l. E. D. Es, artificial limbs, safety app advancements and best of all, tang. An mars we have the able to conduct extensive Scientific Research to help us understand how to live on foreign planets and how to better help us live on earth. Scientist think we could look at agriculture on mars to help us farm here on earth. Scientists think also we need to see our different substances will react to the Martian Atmosphere to better understand the planet from a human perspective, not just looking at it from our rovers. Lastly, by going to mars we are able to explore the planet in a better way and learn more about its creation as well as our galaxies. Mars will help us be able to pioneer ways of new technology for the future and conducting research to learn from during the present. Theres big possibility there is life on mars. If we find life on mars it would be a colossal discovery. A british astonmer says you cannot rule out the fact that a mars rock with life in itlanding on the earth kicked off terese central life and can only fine test that by finding life on mars. The scientific goal is to determine if there is Police Officer on the planet. With the Police Officer on mare it may not be like the alien friday star wars or star trek but it will be a monumental discovery. Lastly, going mars will allow to us possibly colonize another planet. This is so important as elon musk, stephen hawking, bill nye, and many more ingenious people have said going to mars is not an option but is a necessity. Colonizing mars with ensure survival over the human race in a number of ways. It will help us explore the planet in different ways and give us advantages economically and politically. As you would gain important resources on the planet. On top of that,ing this allows us to have a jumping off point for future space manipulations to go even deeper into space. Explore mars is something we cant wait to do because if we dont take the initiative other, countries will. This generation is so pivotal to future of this country but also going to mars. Mars is something that we cant wait to explore. Something that i believe makes us humans is our curiosity. And our goal to explore the unexplored. This curiosity can be seen in my generation as it follows methods to investigate science in order to make sure that we good to mars, my generation does not only need to ask the important scientific questions but also to advocate to congress for more funding for mars exploration. My generation continues to work with the steam curriculum. I experiences this first hand every day at my school. The weiss school, like many other schools across at the country does great with science fairs, but we go beyond. That we have a wind tunnel. We conduct tethers and High Altitude balloon satellites wind chill utilize the Global Network and learn orbital mechanics. We have a development team. And in february we learned we were the only k through 8th 8th greg succeed select through mass was cube sat a launch initiative for a launch in 2018. As a part of the allan ma program well launch our cube into space. Besides this, we get hands on experiences with experts in the field of science, by engagerring with and learning from institutions such as the Scripps Research institute, and the university of florida. Also we compete in many competitions that are not only for middle schoolers but also for High School Students. These competitions include but nor limited to the National Space society, space settlement competition, army corps of engineer High School Engineering come particulars and the explorer competition. We hope to lead the way to a more steam thinking approach, to better preparing this generation for the jobs of the future. To pursue these goals all of our future missions will be driven by rigorous scientific questions that will continuously evolve as we make new discoveries. Brand new technologies will enable to us explore mars in ways we never have before. Rulings in higher resolution images, precision landing, and even the return of martian soil and rock samples for studies in laboratories here on earth. In order for the mission to be a success we as a country need to come together and realize that going to mars benefits us all. Through improving civilization, great scientific advance. S and new technology. By the end of this week, it will have been reinforce by the many inspiring people in this room. It is imperative we explore mars. Enough its up to to us pass our message on to our leaders and hope they will listen. Thank you. [applause] okay. That was inspirational, and to enfire you even more, three things. One, there is the lockheed martian experience bus. And it the building go left, good left again and aid behind the building. Then in the basement you can experience virtual mars with aero jet rockstein, i think . Rocket then the acknowledge to suit up for occasion in a tshirt by also aero jet rocket. So, you have your pick. Now, the next panel is again about invigorate us our youth, our society. The moderator of the panel is lance bush, president and ceo of the Challenger Center, the educational Nonprofit Organization created as a living tribute to the Seven Members lost in the challenger shuttle tragedy. Now, there are 43 Challenger Centers at the moment, and thayer gauge students they engain students in dynamic, hands, on experiences to strengthen their knowledge and pique their interest and keep their interest aimed at steam. Im going to use more time because i dont want to eat into the panel. Lance and your ladies, because there are three ladies in the panel, please come up. [applause] so i, this is always tough to follow the best speaker of the day. [applause] my deep apologies to my other friends robert and thomas and gerst. This panel appropriately is following michael, who i have to say, every time i work with kids and we see kids like this, imi feel so confident that the future is in great hands, regardless of the challenges we have today. [applause] so, i want to make that point, to start this out, is as i was sitting in the audience earlier i looked around and saw so many friends and colleagues. Were a community. I dont seen say industry. Space is a current because we dedicate our lives to exploration, benefit of humanity, and our projects are so far reaching. Were talking about going mars and our goals are like 2030, we would like to get there earlier, but if you think about it, even in our lifetimes, we cant even finish the projects in sometimes within our career, and we have to hand it off to younger people, younger engineers, scientists coming in, and quite frankly, were talking about mars, the first person to step on mars is probably looking at a classroom window today somewhere around this country or somewhere, 0 car be in this audience. We do have students here i want to talk about in a bit. So, those students have to be have to have a basic understands of step subjects, be knowledgeable and scientifically literate and theyre our future leaders. Innovators so i have a panel here today thats going to share thoughts about what we need to do, where we need to go. What are the issues were facing. Because this is not easy, what we do. In this industry, and we need world experts to help us. These students that were talking about i said it may be somebody who is looking out a window right now of a classroom. These are what we call Challenger Center, we call them martians of tomorrow. And theyll be the most technology include advanced, innovative generation we have ever known. To be fair, every generation succeeds the one we hope will be, so, i want to just get going in this and i want to introduce my panelists. In the middle here in the red and black is jerry swogger. The director or elementary instruction at fed rick county Public Schools, an advocate for instructional excellent for k through 5 schools in our Public Schools for 26 years. She is a supporter of findings ways that cause students to reflect on learning, understanding through knowledge. I point out these three ladies apartment spectrum of educational supportment jerri is at the front end of the k through 5 students. Robin, who ill introduce, is with the the director of work for industrial are you base development at aero space Injuries Association industries association, but robin has 25 years in both the private public sector. He main responsibility is focusing on developing strategic, national, global, Corporate Responsibility programs can prime pairly focused on k through 12 Stem Education. And she has again on about her ill embarrass her by saying not only professionally but personally she has three children, she has raised them and one of them a couple theyre all doing fields now. And a shameless bug for miers, her screen saver is her daughter in our challenger smocks, in a Challenger Center, with sally ride, and being inspired to go on to other things. So, robin will have a spiff from both the profession a perspective prom at the professional Development Side and also as a parent. Also we have with us, janet ivey. She is committed to via education and life performances on tv and online, she has great following, 25 years in childrens entertainment and education space. She has received 12 regional emmys and six gracey allen awards and air on 140 plus Public Television stations nationwide. So he is having a huge impact. So, before actually could i get a round of applause for these ladies. [applause] before guy i go any further 2009 introduce one more group, the students. The robe im here and we do have a group of students here today, thats why i kept saying there may be that martian of tomorrow here. We have a group of ninth graders from el haynes public charter school. Can we give them a round round of applause . Theyre in the upper deck. Can you stand up, the still here . There they are. Stand up, please. Way up there. [applause] theyre actually not only here to hear about the future from you in a bit after lunch theyre going to go across the street and we have a simulated launch to mars on sls theyre going to be flying. Theyre also going to design a 3d mars habitat with 3d pen wes brought with us. We have the Challenger Center crew and we have corporate sponsors that helped it, aero jet rocket, boeing, and our longtime partner, nasa. So, lets get into the topic here. Gore together to about education but were here at the submit for mars human to mars summit so its appropriate we talk about why mars. A few months ago i wrote an oped piece in the Huffington Post about why mars, and we said its more about not just this destination but its a defining moment for the next generation. I want to start with you, janet. Why mars . I have a couple of reason. I say why mars . Because gene radden berry says were on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are and its prom and is provocation of explore asia is the greatest science adventure story of alltime. Its like the great out west and we have to conquer it. Why mars . Why not. Its the possibility of donning a space suit, hopping in my rocket, traveling 140 miles away from earth. Dont want to go. And its because, why mars, as youre talking about i tend to work k through 5 or k through 8 students and i know a group of third graters at home at Henry Maxwell that dont their jackets at their latest tbr with as trophies cyst on it and designed a whole martial habitat, and when i asked them why mars, they said because we want to be the people to go. Faction. Robin . This is for you out there in the top, you young students. You own this. When i was a young girl it was out below landing on me moon. Witnessed that. Then it was like, now what . Mars is so exciting. When i was at Johnson Space center i saw what goes along with developing a mission to mars and how these hole who is and people introducing spate suits so theyre not so bulky, andtake maim slim and trim, light workout clothes today. Your generation to pay to go on virgin galactic, 250,000 to go into orbit. Its just so exciting to see what students will be able to do in the jobs that ill talk about later that will go along with flying a mission to mars itch think it generates excitement as the moon did for us. Jerri . I think simply what for us in education its not just mars. Mars is a great goal but for us its the making the impossible possible, and helping kids see that we have dreams and we have goals some some of those are really big goals, and so its okay to dream and its okay to think about things that others might say, boy, thats impossible, we cant do that. We want our students today to be thinking about what could be possible and not be boxed in by what other say is impossible. Fantastic. So, lets talk about the bigger Stem Education issue, which is why were all here. I think generally we have a panel like this, its because youre trying to solve a problem so i will just throw it out here. This is a concern. There continues to be growing concern that todays students dont leave school prepared to take on Higher Education stem programs or to enter the stem work force, some students lack the basic understands offering stem subjects required in most industries today. That has a negative impact on the students ability to citied in an increasingly Competitive Work Force affects business able to fill jobs. Directsly affect order economy and able to achieve things elm u. S. Department of commerce indicates the job thursday stem wail double the growth in nonstem cities and theyre not enough students to follow the stem career paths, as we sit in this room, living and breathing stem, knowing its importance and what lies ahead, we know we have a lack of talent, our industries will suffer. Its a risk. This is real risk itch started my career as a nasa aero space engineer, rocket scientist, and we even designing a space you talk about risks and have to define what your risks are. This is a risk to us getting to mars. So thats a key reason why were here. So, its our first topic. Lets start with you, robin. Youre at the end when you talk about work force, the industries you represent, aia represents how many billions of dollars in revenue and the jobs and pretty much everybody who is in your organization is who is helping us get to mars. So, what do you see in the industry from the age of current employees to lack of skills, what is causing the problem. You ask any of our ceos what keeps up up at night. Theres a lot of answers but almost everyone says the future talent pipeline, the future work force. What happens when i retire and my directors retire. Who is coming up behind them . We dont know when the wave will occur. We have been talking about the big retirement of tout this stem. Sequestration kept many working longer than they would have but we know the wave is going to come and have to have city students coming up behind them. Theres number of things that we are concerned about. Theres not enough women and minorities going into the stem fields. We need to do better at that. Its a known fact were kind of plugging along, thats a concern that we have, too, and of course, the skills gap. We talk about the skills gap. The job that are going to be needed in the future, currently and in the future, dont often match up with the skill this students are learning today. Theres a gap there, and thats going to affect productivity, innovation, threaten our u. S. Global competitiveness at times. So how can be close that gap . That is a concern. The other thing want to talk about is soft skills. The fact we need students to not only know about extreme opportunities for learning highlevel map and science skills but also can they communicate . Can they collaborate . Work as teams . So soft skills are very important in our industry, any industry really to be successful. And i wont go on and on but what we sear in our industry is we have communications problem. Were not talking to the students enough. Were not telling our story. Were not telling the story that we have high paying jobs and that theres a career in aero space and Defense Industry if you choose that. Were not getting out there and having millenials talk to a student, et cetera. And technology is changing every day and its hard for us to match that up with what students are learning today. We always talk about we dont know what the jobs are exactly going to be tomorrow. You have heard about that today. So, with all of those issues, and the fact in aero Space Defense you have to have security clearances and cant hire from overseas. A number of things. But thats what keeps us up and thats why i think we do have a shortage of stem for a lot of those reasons. Just need to communicate how great these fields are. Yeah, its exciting. I cant exciting. Look at this. Takes me to jerri. Youre actually seeing the killeds at this early age. Why arent student showing an in stem subjects and going on to careers in other paths. What is happening here . First i will say that our students today are, youngsters, everybody bit as talented as youngsters who came out of school for the past other, 50, 60 years, theyre enthusiastic, kind, concerned about the world around them and far more globally connected than the ever have been. However we have prepared tome to do what we have prepared them to do. In the past 20 years of education, although accountability is a good thing, we he set our students and teachers up for being focused on answers rather than being focused on problems, and when students are focused on answers and when teachers are focused on answers theyre not learning to think and to enhance those skills that robin was talking about, what we call the four cs. Some schools have five, six, seven, eight. But we have not been setting them up for that because we have been focused on the accountability we have had to work toward and make shire were showing that our students are being successful. But we were showing students being successful in a way that is not necessarily helping us create students who are well versed in stem or steam type fields. So, i think that is one of the biggest problems. We say in education that assessment drives instruction, and thats a good thing the classroom, but when assessment is driving instruction from the perspective of standardized multiple choice tests that kids have to learn how to take were really cramping that ability for kids to be creative and for teachers to help students launch to think. And so not only have our students grown up in this environment, but our teachers have grown up in this environment, too. We have an entire generation of teachers and students who have been trained in this way. The good news is, the pendulum is starting to swing back a little bit. In my School System in virginia, we are becoming more focused on problembased learning. Were becoming more focuses on assessment that help show knowledge as opposed to have students just spit ought what they know spitting out what they know the four cs are being imbedded into classrooms and the curriculum and students are expected to show how theyre collaborating, show creativity and Critical Thinking and are expected to communicate. Were coming back that direction and building in stem or steam type content into the curriculum is one way we are getting there, but we are focused on the fact that we need do better for our students and we need to make sure that were headed in a better direction from that perspective. To really build on what both of these great ladies have said, i feel sometimes im a huge advocate for connecting students with role models. Think sometimes theres a lack of same industry professionals or women. Hidden figures is the best pr movie science has made to learn the stories of Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughn and mary jackson and see to the brilliant, amazing, determined, persistent women, honor intelligence we have to start honoring the gift were we given to stand in our enhance mag is in sense magnificence and the bester and exciter is on our shoulders and when we take are from tom science they say youre one of those creative types, janet, sit over there. Other had a five grade teach who are said my create give science proclivities and allowed me to do both itch think letting our art inform our science, art inform our science, has to happen. Theres a great little video running around on facebook that they did a study. We have a create aspirational science all of writers and artists and videographers and lets tell a great science story that, i dade study and with 5,000 childrens books, only 25 of them had zero female, whichs. Then Time Magazine hissed the best 100 Children Books and only 53 had femaleses that actually spoke. Diving down, across childrens media, only 19. 5 of female characters hold jobs or have career are operations. Apparently everybody is waiting on their prince, and im here to tell you, ladies, smart is the most beautiful thing you can be no prince. [applause] for me its like we for those of us dreaming the dreams of mars and as asteroids and deep space, we have to stand up and mentor and show up and we have to be the best mouthpiece for science. Wow. Im glad you brought that up. First of all, personal note, im old enough to i started my career at nasa langley researcher in, and Katherine Johnson was in her last year that i met her when i was a young engineer, and so im very glad to see that movie as well. Its very uplifting. But youre right, we need everybody, we need more students engaged, and so appreciate these comments. These are fantastic. So, these im setting up thats the problem. Now i brought you up here for a reason. Now you have to tell me the solutions. From our side, Challenger Center, we look at students who say, were committed to igniting that potential within each student. That to us is the key. Jerryi, you talked about the standardized testing and drives me a little nuts even as im a parent of 12yearolds, and i feel like if we get students excited, energized about stem subjects, open their eyes to new skilled, that will prepare them for the future, carry them forward in their careers and lives. At Challenger Center we do that. You have to do that with handson stem programs. Have to let them run experience, doing simulated mission. See the excitement of it all going on. In a Challenger Center mission that it can put tasks together. They work as a team do communications, and we give them a chance to see these careers they could have. And soing this afternoon, like i said, these students in the audience will do some of those things, and i hope maybe 20 or 30 years from now im reading about one or a couple of. The stepping on mars or being the rocket scientist. In fact at Challenger Center we have been around over 30 years and have those stories already. We have people who are in Mission Control and astronaut and doctor and so thats kind of my philosophy. I have you other experts here who are great about this. Jerri, ill start with you. What can be done from a formal education standpoint, even within society related to education to get more kids engaged with stem . Ii was just reading an article that talked about Stem Education and starting kid early and they were advocating for starting as early as preschool. Theres a big push in our nation and state to make sure we have preschool education for more and more student, i if not all of our students, but a lot of times we think theyre too young to be engage ordinary involved in scientific thinking or technology and engineering and mathematics but the real estate is kid come with knowledge, with a natural curiosity about the world around them, and they are ready and focused and willing to be a part of that. So we have to tap into that early. Have to set up those experiences for students. We have to have openended opportunity for kids so theyre not focused on the right answer but focused on answers or solutions because theres more than one right way to do things. We need to provide meaningful experiences for our students. A lot of times when we start down that path of problembased learning or problembased education, the scenarios we give kids are contrived we sue throw them. The brock with Challenger Center was nows kessed on oceans and learn focuses on oceans and learning Ocean Science and that thing for four fifth grader but they were focused on the monk seals and theyre becoming extinct and trying to study reasons why which got them into he study of ocean currents and patterns and the pollution and then incorporated a Great Mission where they were engaged in helping to solve problems along at the way and come up with their own ideas related to the problems that were put before them. That was a real world problem and students were extremely engaged in that and had an opportunity to think and an opportunity to collaborate and make sure that they were working toward an end goal, which is really exciting to see in the classroom. So, we need more of that. Finally, were say we need to lift teachers up. Dont know if youre aware but the is a National Teacher shortage, and people who are thinking possibly of going into education or who might have been thinking of going into education, because of the publicity that education has gotten in the past few years, theyre running for the hills, and so were not its not that were not even getting the best and brightest, which is what we used to her, which was offensive to those of news education, but its not eastern that problem any longer. Were not getting anyone because kids today see that and they see how teachers are kind of being put in a between a rock and a hard place and and they dont want to be involved in that. So we have to lift our teachers up. We have to support them, provide them with the training they need in the classroom. Theyre some of most intelligence, welleducated people that walk the face of the agency and with our kids day in and day out, loving them and nurturing them and providing for their educational as well as other needs, but they arent experts in everything, and so we have a roomful of experts in the Stem Education field who can be part of that training and who can help support and it help our teachers by coming in and modeling or doing some of the thing that help set up training that is positive for our teachers weapon need ways to help teachers see the Practical Application of what theyre teach neglect classroom to teaching in the classroom to the field. At the elementary level its difficult to say this what you need your map for when youre talking to a sixyearold or eightyearold but when someone from the field comes in and shows them howl the map is aapplicable and is part of a job, it makes sense so those can help news education. Fantastic. Well, thank you for the plug for our program. So, janet, youre great at this, inspiring students. Tell me about one of your programs or activities that helped inspire students and why you believe it works. Well, mentoring is just something when she was talking about there are some amazing kindergarten and first graders. So theres a guy named jackson, he was in first grade, my selfproclaimed biggest fan and he when hat was happening he was in first grade in 2015 and i happened to visit the school and he had read all about the under Horizons Mission and goes, well, miss janet, if you hearing of halving taught me that. Tell us i feel safer on the planet. Im like, on it. So, fast forward a year i get a call from a very awesome teacher, and she said, jackson is having a bit of a problem. Heirs parents are going through a terrible divorce and still loves space and science. Thick you can die. Want to give him something. I happened to be at a luncheon with hoot gibson, fivetimes Space Shuttle astronaut, former chief astronaut, and i said, got this kid, raley wants to go into space. Can i film a little video. And hoot takes out his Business Card in the video, autographs and it gives tote me. After the luncheon i had to school. Jackson, you can tell is having a tough time. Comes out. Watches the video of hoot telling him, be a good person and learn how to collaborate and study hard and how to be a pilot if you want to be an astronaut, and thatting downward face became a smile and thin handed him the autograph id Business Card and then it wasnt until i realized he was like, i probably need to call mr. Gibson and tell him. And i am going oh, my god. Ive just given a second grader the astronauts phone numberer. So i called hoot and im like, you know that card . I never even thought about he goes, it will be great. So back and forth these two so, a sevenyearold and hoot do the i think probably approaching 70, spent 45 minutes on the phone, hoot sent him a followup package and his little world was wrighted again, and ive seen that kind of thing when its a onetoone but also when die a hand on activity like make your own spacecraft. Nasa has a great thing on plates. You make it out of recycled items. Ive done it with pine cones and you explain the science and instrumentation and then let creativity take place. And i will tell you that i have had parents just involved in the process, and so after one experience a parent called and said, my son wanted a Spiderman Party but after coming to your event he now wants an astronaut party. So i wish there were some measuring analytics. All i can know is i think were all called to put that drop of science for those of us super passionate about and it epa pray everybody else is adding to that so our future explorers have a full cup. I think we frankly, its we have an advantage of space and dinosaurs are naturally of interest at a certain age, and how is not excite, going on a mission to mars orgone ago going on these to says a natural fit for us. We have an advantage over other industries and ill refrain from getting into that. So, im going to go to you, robin. Ill give ill make you work. So you are leader and Work Force Development in the aero space industry and also the mother of three Challenger Center students, all who turned into stem professionals, so i have two questions for you on this. First, what has the industry been doing that you believe has worked in regard to getting more stem candidates and professionals, what dines of programs have you put together second, what did you do to keep your children interested in stem, elementary, middle, high school and college. How did you do i personally . Well, thank you for asking. Ill start with the first question with, what is business doing . Up here you have academia and industry. Thats exactly what we think is important. That echo system of industry work with academia, nonprofit, local, state and National Government to come together to kind of resolve these issues to get more kids into stem. We know that parents, teachers, counselors, grandparents, all the biggest influencers of students. We now working on communications out to the parents, that stem is exciting. Our industry depends on it. To hear you say that theres shortage of teachers again and the profession is not wellrespected. Im a former teacher. My postmasters is in education and i have dual background and breaks my heart to hear that. Ill have to see what i can do from an industry perspective. Starting early with prek, businesses are now realizing that the Early Brain Development dish spend a lot of my career, couple of years ago, talking about neuroscience and Brain Development so i wont bore you with that. The fact that two three, fouryearolds kids when their brain is develop, its critical they learn how to problem solve and learn how to learn. Atrisk kid dont have the opportunity to go to preschool so businesses are advocating for Early Childhood education. Thats kind of new. We have always in business taught first we just worked with universities. Enough its k12 universities and now we realize we have to advocate for Early Childhood education for all students and that new and different. We need to talk to students about the Vital Mission that our industry does and do we do that . They think of manufacturing this grandfathers factory floor, the dirty oil all over the place kind of fast factories, and what finding today the ideas rooted in 19th and 20th century manufacturing and movies you see, certainly not true today. You can eat off the floor in plants ive been in and robotic is a big part and the advanced manufacturing, the technologied out there, that our kids need learn. So were trying to bring students into the manufacturing plants. Bring students into our companies and show them what we do. Theres nothing like talk about handson learning. Handing on and visual recognition of the kind of job wes have in our industry because its hard to go out to a career fair and say, we build drones, too. A lot of drones. Then we have software that manages the drones and we try to relate to things the kids would understand or the thing they can see. Thing biggest competition is not each other or the companies. Itser to the googles and amazons and the Silicon Valley kinds of jobs. The students see what goggle is. They use google every day. Dont often see what we do now industry. So were trying to form parterships to expose kids to exciting job wes have. And then lastly were trying to talk to them about career advancement, the salary levels we have. Help with the students debt you. Hear about college kids come ought with huge debts and sometimes companies who attract them in the company are offering scholarships to the students and thats new and different, too. Didnt see that eight, ten years ago. So, other than education policy, wore can as an echo system, thats kind of what were doing in terms of programs, and as far as my children go, ill make this short i do have three stem children, students Young Professionals now should i say. They have the advantage of a mom who did Corporate Communications for trw, and then i went to bae systems and had a lot of evening and weekend activity wes were managing and supported the Challenger Center, supported space camp. So i drug my kids to everything. In Elementary School they went to High School Science fairs because i had to present the awards for the companies, so i have to say that they had more an advantage of seeing the kinds of stem opportunities and meeting adults, but if i take that out of the equation, the fact i had that work as a profession, exposing kids to the space camps and Challenger Centers, i love the fact my daughter at nineyearold old met sally ride in her space camp suit. That is my screen saver. She is a solve software trainer, when to Thomas Jefferson high school for science and technology. Kids, take those advanced courses early on, algebra in the eight National Grade and make the career choices yours. If you dont get the courses in place, then youre not going to have as men chases. Whether you pursues the kinds of careers at least you have the opportunity to make those decisions. Odyssey of mind is another great Critical Thinking in Elementary School. My kid took junior achievement. Taught downachievement. Thats about starting a business. What this marketing, what kind of bug do you want to set budget do you want to set . Which is first robotics and nuss so see what the kids have to do. My son did first, so my youngest is an engineer, did pursue the engineering. He went to i have to throw out a callout for scouts, because he is an eagle scout, and to be an eagle caught you have to design a project and defend that project, how to carry it out in front of a group of adults. This is one of the greatest story is tell young people. He built a bridge, designed a bridge and built it at our church camp, and what was interesting about that is that he Learned Leadership skills because when youre a scout you have to lead other teams. Thats part of being eagle. When he is a freshman engineering student at virginia tech, rollsroyce comes in, interviewing the older kids for jobs in the fracture trihere in petersberg at cross point, and cam ran goes in as cameron goes in an freshman and said ill just interview, what the heck. Awl all these kids were connell ought white faced . He says whats wrong in that room . He said its a panel. Heat talked to talking to a panel of men and scouts in particular, and he gets an internship as a freshman. I thought those are the things you dont talk about. How do you communicate, give your kid experience, how do you students up there in the loft there go out and work with adults and learn how to speak with adults, that communication. Those are so critical. And so what i say as a parent is just expose your kids to as many things as you can. My middle daughter is a cpa with a firm in new york city. The other thing i did is i minimize the amount of computer time and it was easier back then than it is now, know. But our kids were played board gameswent outside, did summer camps that were outside. Learned survivor skills and girl scout camp, things like that to give your kids a variety of things if think heat rubber stamping what i hear up here about the schools if could go on and on but the kids. But he made me talk about it. Thank you, robin. I did that purposely because otherwise id be talking about my kids for the next eight hours. So, we have time for one more quick question. We set this up as kind of what is the problem, what is the general solution, the idea, but im all about action, and were at Challenger Center trying to every day help kids, inspire them to move on. So, im going to ask each of you, you have a room here full of the aero space professionals and we have the students here, what you have the opportunity youre an impresssive group of ladies and what are the run or two things you can do. So, robin, start with you. What action would you ill ask you to address the students because youre youre from the professional work force, you talk to these people i want to know what advice you would give to students to pursue their stem degree. I wrote these down. Theres variety of things. Be exposed to so many Different Things but do take those advance math and science courses early on. If you take algebra in the and then ap courses you have choices when you choose your college path and career path. Let those choices be yours. The other is to get involved in stem extra curricula alreadies with talk about the Challenger Center and odyssey of the mind and robotics. Do at do as men as you can. Plus do sports. I dont say decent do sport mitchell kidding were in sports every season. So balance that out. Seek out internships, apprenticeships go on informational interviews, talk to Business People or folks at nasa about their jobs and theyre career path and how they get to where they are. Cant encourage you enough to go out and try to get even if its unpaid, opportunities in the Business Community to learn about how business works. It helps you with your schooling down the road. Build those leadership skills, et cetera. But at the end i just want you to have fun in life. Have balance in your life. Work hard and play hard. That was my fathers mantra and i ive kind of picked that up, so die both. Have a real balance in my life and i think thats important. Youll make a better employee if you have balance. And explore all your options. And what i used to tell so many students is when they say, well, not always cool to be in first robotics in high school and kind of a in other wordsy thing. Said just remember this, all those Football Players that are making fun of you . Theyll be carrying your bags one day. Theyll be working are for you. So, anyway, just knock them dead. Thank you, robin. Jerri, want you to talk to the ary prospace professional industry here, what can they do to get involved and help with the students and the issues youre seeing. Well, im going borrow a phrase that we use in Frederick County in virginia. We are one of the first counties on the coast to have a Bright Futures organization that is a Community Organization that is all of the different businesses and everything coming together to partner with the School System and we talk about giving our your time, talent and or your treasure. So from the perspective of time i say be an edge gauged roll mod for students in your local schooled. Start young. Be a mentor a young student. We are in need of good mentors are especially men to come in and mentor Young Children who may not have a father figure or a solid man in their lives and so that is a really big need and its invaluable in our schools. When you give of your talent you can share your expert cities expertise, and help the teachers, and be someone who is there to help and inspire the kids on a daily basis. And treasure. I know that people always think that were always hitting everyone up for money and to an extent thats true. But thats because in an age where were expecting more and more and more of ore students and more and more of our teachers, we are also in an age where wore struggling with being defundedded in the Public Schools. So we dont have the funding to put towards the programs would we like to have, whether its sending children to Challenger Centers. Not all of our student goes to star base thats beau can only off sore many sessions and we can only offer the funding for so many buss. So were making those kind of choices daily. So, anytime you can help provide meaningful instructional experiences to our students or opportunities that wouldnt otherwise have we encourage that and welcome that in our schools. Wow, thank you. So, over to you, janet. Id like you address the students and whether theyre going to into a stem field or not, im interested in what kind of advice you give. You have worked directly with a lot of young people. I have taught acting, science, dance, musical theater. So what i want to say to any young people here and especially those up there in the balcony is, always dream big, and its like life really isnt about finding yourself as much as it is about creating yourself. Commander Chris Hatfield has a great graphic that he says dont let life kick you into the adult you dont want to become. And so i love that. It is your choice, and whether you become a tap dancing pharmacist and you let your art and your science live side by side, matters not. Space will be boring if theres not a good store, teller, artist or musician onboard going to mars. I also want to tell you that its like allow yourself to be imperfect. Perfectionism will kill creativity because you spent so much time thinking you have to be perfect. Theres any number of engineers and scientists scientists in tht could lift their fail list their failures be longer than discusses be but because our their failures they were able to be successful. So allow the failure, mass sass has the failure is not an option but maybe it should be. When see squirmed students go awry, thats when the learning happens. So allow that. The last thing i would ask yourself is, what would you want to do if you knew that you could not fail. And id ask that to the entire crowd. What would you want to do if you knew you couldnt fail and then hash tag it with, go pursue that. I just found my new mentors in life up here. Theyve helped people launch a lot of successful live and careers. So ill have your phone numbers on speed dial. Let me id like to as moderator, take my moment to say heres any call to action to you. At Challenger Center we recognize all of these issues, and the first step is to ask you in this audience were asking everybody out there to take the first step, take pledge to im going to do something, any one of these things. And at Challenger Center to help you even just solidify youre going to do it, put your name down, we actually have a martians of tomorrow not just a title we put up here. Its whole campaign and if you go to challenger. Org, you can go 0 its not an ask for money or anything like that. It is for you say im going to do something about it. And you can even say what you want to do. The fun thing is grew to our web site if you would like you can take a quiz it will take you through a series of questions about your interests, and you will find out if you are going to mars, what you would be, what teammate you would be on this trip, the biologist, the chemist, the navigation officer, the Communications Specialist . We have been having a lot of fun in the office comparing who would be what. So i really encourage you to all of you to talk the pledge. Were trying to start a movement in the country to get behind Stem Education. See we have maybe a few minutes that we five minutes left. Perfect. So, im going to open it up to the floor for questions from the audience. So the microphones up front here. You have a question, come down to the microphone and well be happy to answer questions. See somebody standing, and yes, theyre coming here and not to the bathroom. I know one modify daughter very favorite science teachers was actually his second career. He was a scientist and then came back to the classroom, and i wonder if you know of any efforts to bring retired or scientist back into the classroom as a second career. Thank you. I think jerri might be the best to answer that. I can search to virginia and what virginia has been working on. We have career switcher programs through the Community Colleges or local universities that people who have had a career already and who want to get into teaching can enter into those career switcher programs and there are certain courses they need to have before entering into classrooms. I know our legislation was just trying to make some of that pathway easier and open it up. We do fire folks who come out of whether its the scientific field, engineering, mathematics. People who have lived those experiences because they have a lot to offer. Many or most of them dont stay very long, especially at the High School Level. They come in and they Teach High School for a semester or two and decide that is not what they want to do and quickly flee. But we look for folks who are interested in that, and have that passion for students, and we do try to make that happen for them. I will say the key is, have a passion for kids because no matter what it is you think youre teaching, youer touching studentsful might teach math or student science or biology but youre teaching stunts. If you dont have a passion for kids first, its not a field for you. And ill just add in there that at Challenger Center we actually have a lot of scientists, engineers, who retire and they still love the exploration, and there are people who love working with kids and theyre our flying directors who flight directors and theyre flying to mars every day with the kids. So, i think i do think its a good idea. That exchange helps. So next question. Hi. My question for you is, what is your advice to both kids and parents who come to love stem fields later in life, either through high school or college, and the ap classes for them. Physic confuses them but they see things on the big screen or inspired by videoswhatnot. What is your advice for them. Its a great thing by tony wagner, great book called creating the innovators the future, and in it he says we must let our children play, and in the midst of their play they may find their passion. And n the middle of the passion they may find their purpose. Think it goes back to what she said earlier. That whole that instruction to assessment thing, throw that out the door. Figure out what theyre most interested in what that pathway is, because we all learn so very differently. Its like i come to this as my undergrad is in music and speed at the. Im work Mosquito Masters of education in steam but its like i come really as a creative. So sometimes ill turn it on its head and see things in ways its like if i were trained as a scientist i might not otherwise ask the question about. So, let them be their unique self, play with their passion. In the middle of that they may find a connection and doorway that has not yet been opened. Theres plenty of time doesnt mean even if you have a english graduated with interior bachelors and english, i can tell you i work at nasa for 20 years and know somebody who was in charge of a huge part of nasa who had an english degree, bachelors. If you find your passiondont be afraid and go after and it find your mentors who will support you. It will be hard but you can find the mentors. Good question. Another question over here. Hi. I am a High School Student and i just recently got super interested in space and stuff i was wondering, how can i, High School Student, encourage my peer goes into into stem. First of all bravo. Yes. You nor part of the tribe and the club, right . Take the martians of tomorrow pledge. I dont know. Ill turn it over to somebody else. A number of things. Take are you involved in some of these stem activities after school or just saying they dont want to do it . Maybe bring them is that the case . I would really like to but as of now i dont have time. Im trying to next year. Thats a start. Start with something that they might be passionate about at the High School Level that can be first robotics first not about build the robot. Thats part of it but its about raising money and marketing, keep logo, all those art skills youre talking about, actually fact glory first robotics so thats one idea. Or pick something that is of interest or call us up and n industry and we can connect you with folks out in industry that have really cool jobs. Awesome aero space jobs and get motivated to see what kind of jobs outcome get with a stem career. You need to see that light at the end of the tunnel. Not enjoying math and science classes early on and dont see that apply when they come out in their careers, thats a tough sell. But perhaps do two thingment one at the High School Level with your peers and another thing is to try to connect with industry. Thank you so much. Id say ill speak for myself. If you stay here afterwards, well i give you my contact information. Would love to give you ideas on all the different programs im aware of that you could get involved. In it is what robin says. You have to find those parks of those other people. Connect into it. We can give you a range of things, and find a good summer camp. Thats shortterm so many cool ones out there, thats another suggest. By our champion out there wed love it. Stu much. [applause] su. And our eclipse coverage on the cspan Network Continues right now with call some comments live on cspan. Youre chance to get in on it go over there and hop on the phone if you want the house and senate in recess but lawmakers spend time gazing sky weird. Senator john cornyn sis eclipse watching from dallas senator todd young from indiana, gazing evansville with students in mayor there. And delware senator quiets he is taking a look through the unitron 60millimeter under the watchful eye the doctor the mount cuba observatory. 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