PRESIDENT BUSH TO ADDRESS STUDENTS ON NASA SELECT TV
President Bush will join NASA Administrator Richard Truly
for a back-to-school special on NASA Select TV on Sept. 17 at 2 p.m. EDT.
"Launching the School Year with President Bush" is aimed at
the elementary grades. The 1-hour program will originate from Washington, D.C., and La Porte, Texas. President Bush will speak to students and teachers about America 2000 and the national education goals, and third and fourth grade students gathered in both locations will have the opportunity to ask the President questions. They also will participate in a unique math and science "lesson" led by Astronauts Charlie Bolden in Washington and Tammy Jernigan in La Porte, Texas, as well as aerospace education specialist Lisa McLeod.
McLeod, one of 35 teachers nicknamed "Spacemobilers", will
bring one of NASA's oldest and most popular education programs to nationwide television for the first time. Astronauts Bolden and Jernigan will narrate footage from their Shuttle missions, bringing to life the aerospace lecture on living and working in space.
Making up the audience at NASA Headquarters in Washington
will be 17 national winners of the NASA/National Science Teachers Association's Space Science Student Involvement Program (SSIP). As SSIP winners, they have created projects ranging from proposals for experiments on Space Station Freedom to designs for an outpost on the moon. NASA Select, the television service of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, now offers educational and informational programming in addition to complete mission coverage and press events. The 2 p.m. EDT time slot is dedicated to programming suitable for classroom use, specifically aimed at inspiring young people to achieve in math and science.
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NASA Select is transmitted on SatCom F2R, transponder 13, C
Band, 72 degrees West longitude, frequency 3954.5 MHz, vertical polarization, audio on 6.8 MHz.
"Launching the School Year with President Bush" also will be
broadcast live on local PBS stations throughout the country.