Pushing the Boundaries

Pushing the Boundaries 

Photo Credit: NASA

From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. 

Sally K. Ride was one of six women to become astronauts in 1979, the first class of female astronauts NASA ever had. On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the 

first American woman to fly in space. 

After her departure from NASA she started looking for ways to help women and girls who wanted to study science and mathematics, creating the NASA's EarthKAM project. EarthKAM lets middle school students take pictures of Earth using a camera on the International Space Station, and analyze the pictures.

In 2003, Ride was added to the Astronaut Hall of Fame. 

Sometimes it is necessary to push boundaries to reach our dreams. 

Sometimes that boundary is the atmosphere. 

Push your boundaries today!

1. Provide an overview of your project/artifact. (For example: I designed a video game using Scratch programming where the player, or snowman, has to catch 5 snowflakes and avoid the flying flames.)

2. What were the important learning targets of this project/artifact? (What were the requirements for the project?)

3. What were the computer science concepts used for this project/artifact? (Variables, loops, conditional statements, functions, lists/arrays, methods, etc.)       

4. What were the computational thinking principles used for this project/artifact? (Abstraction, algorithms, correctness, efficiency, iteration or loop statements, variables, etc.)

5. How does this project/artifact relate to the “real” world? What did you learn or use that will help you outside the classroom?

6. In this project/artifact, what did you particularly want others to notice?

7. What would you improve if you could do this over again?

8. Does this project/artifact reflect the effort you put into it? Why or why not?

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