Education Outreach
Ensuring the Giant Leaps of tomorrow by bringing the lessons of Apollo to today’s young people
Giant Leaps is not simply a celebration of our past accomplishments — it is an application of the lessons of the past to the current and future challenges of science and technology. Who better, then, to engage in this process than our young people? The education outreach components of Giant Leaps fall will take place throughout the spring of 2009, and will continue long after the conclusion of our main events in June.
Museum Exhibitions
A number of Boston-area museums are pooling their Apollo artifacts and collaborating with Giant Leaps organizers to create an exhibition of Apollo-related material.
SEED Academy
In collaboration with Saturday Engineering, Enrichment & Discovery (SEED) Academy, an enrichment program for Boston-area public high school students, Giant Leaps ran a semester-long Aeronautics and Astronautics course for high school sophomores in the spring.
Sally Ride Science Festival
On Saturday, May 2, 2009, Giant Leaps and the Cambridge Science Festival hosted the Sally Ride Science festival, a day-long event aimed at encouraging young people to pursue their passion for exploration in science, math, and engineering. The festival included a talk by Dr. Ride, the first American woman to enter outer space; discovery workshops for students, presented by MIT scientists and engineers; workshops for parents and teachers on ways to support students’ interests in science and math; a street fair with booths, hands-on activities, food, and music.
