NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: June 11, 1999

Media Advisory m99-117

Summary:

-- NASA Selects 1999 SHARP PLUS Student Apprentices

-- Upcoming Media Opportunity: Oklahoma Students Highlight NASA at
National History Day, June 15

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NASA SELECTS 1999 SHARP PLUS STUDENT APPRENTICES

Three hundred high school students will live on college campuses

and
conduct science research at 15 universities this summer through
NASA's 1999 Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program
(SHARP PLUS). NASA and the Quality Education for Minorities Network
selected the students from 1,200 applicants to participate in this
year's program. These apprentices represent 195 high schools and come
from 34 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S.
Virgin Islands.

Contact at NASA Headquarters: Beth Schmid, 202/358-1760;

Contact at Quality Education for Minorities Network: Laura-Lee
Davidson, 202/659-1818.

Full text of the release:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-069.txt

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Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

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UPCOMING MEDIA OPPORTUNITY: OKLAHOMA STUDENTS HIGHLIGHT NASA AT NATIONAL
HISTORY DAY

A group of Oklahoma high school students who examined the role of

women in NASA's origins -- and a woman who helped create NASA -- will be
available for press interviews on Tuesday, June 15, as part of
the National History Day competition next week. The students, from Minco
High School in Minco, OK, are among 2,000 finalists in this year's
National History Day competition, to be held June 13-17 at the
University of Maryland's College Park campus. Reporters will be able to
interview the students and 93-year-old Eilene Galloway, who played a key
role in drafting the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 and
recently received the John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award. Galloway will
attend the Oklahoma students' presentation at 1:40 p.m. EDT Tuesday in
room 2203 in the Art and Sociology building on campus. She and the
students will be available for media interviews immediately following
this presentation. For more details, contact Mark Robinson at the
telephone number below.
Contact at NASA Headquarters: Beth Schmid, 202/358-1760;
Contact at University of Maryland: Mark Robinson, 301/314-9542.

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June 11, 1999

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