The primary focus of this effort is to educate teachers and students with diverse backgrounds, in a gender sensitive manner, over a wide geographic area of the United States in grades Kindergarten through 12. The secondary focus of the effort is to reach and educate the public at large.
Partnership and synergy are the key concepts in this Educational Outreach Program. Extensive outreach is achieved through leveraged resources by working together with:
Materials produced and services provided as a result of this effort include:
The goal by providing these extensive materials and services is to capture the educational community's and the public's interest. Conducting public lectures and town hall discussions with partners in states around the country gives NASA recognizable voices and familiar faces. It also very importantly provides people charged with the responsibility for communicating the Mars Exploration Program stories, who come from and share the background of the local community.