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Chiwaukee Academy
Kenosha/Racine Area
August
11-15, 2008 |
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Christa
McAuliffe Academy
Appleton
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July
14-18, 2008
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Cray Academy
Chippewa Falls Area
July 4-7, 2008 |
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Gitche
Gumee Academy
Ashland
Area
July
28-August 1, 2008 |
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John
Muir Academy
Verona
Area
July
28-August 1, 2008 |
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Northwoods Academy
Rhinelander Area
August
4-8, 2008 |
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Sally
Ride Academy
West
Allis Area/June 23-27, 2008 Waukesha Area/July
14-18, 2008 Grafton Area/July 28-August 1,
2008 Fond du Lac Area/August 11-15, 2008 |
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Star
Academy
River Falls Area
July
29-August 1, 2008 |
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Washburn
Academy
Holmen
Area/July 14-18, 2008 Onalaska Area/July
28-August 1, 2008
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WASDI |
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Dr. Sally K.
Ride, a former NASA
Astronaut and the first American woman
in space, is the co-founder and CEO
of Imaginary Lines, Inc.,
a company dedicated to encouraging more young girls of middle school
age to pursue math and science through programs and products designed
to meet th eir specific interests and needs. She is also the Ingrid
and Joseph Hibben Professor of Space Science at the University of
California, San Diego. Dr. Ride was raised in Los Angeles,
California and attended Stanford University where she received her
B.S. in Physics and B.A in English in 1973, and her M.S. and Ph.D.
in Physics in 1975 and 1978, respectively.
In 1978, Dr. Ride was selected
for NASA's astronaut corps. She was involved in the design and
testing of the Space Shuttle's robot arm, served as capsule
communicator in NASA's Mission Control, and was a member of the
support crew for the second and third Shuttle flights. Her first
spaceflight was aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983; her
second was also aboard Challenger, in 1984. During those flights,
she deployed communications satellites, operated the robot arm, and
conducted experiments in materials, pharmaceuticals, and Earth
remote-sensing.
Training for her third
spaceflight was interrupted by the Space Shuttle Challenger
accident. Dr. Ride served as a member of the Presidential Commission
investigating the accident, and chaired its subcommittee on
Operations. She then served as NASA's first director of Strategic
Planning, initiating strategic planning at NASA and producing a
report on the future of the space program entitled "Leadership and
America's Future in Space." She also created, and was the first
Director of, NASA's Office of Exploration.
Dr. Ride spent two years at
Stanford University's Center for International Security and
Cooperation, where she worked on a variety of national security
issues. In 1989, she became Director of the University of
California's California Space Institute, and joined the faculty at
UCSD as a Professor of Physics. She is a Fellow of the American
Physical Society, and her research interests include novel types of
lasers, the interaction of high-energy electrons with radiation, and
space plasmas.
In 1999, Dr. Ride became
President of the Internet/Media company, Space.com. She left
Space.com in 2000 to found her own company, Imaginary Lines. Long an
advocate for improved science education, Dr Ride has written four
science books for children: To Space and Back; Voyager; The Third
Planet, and The Mystery of Mars. She also initiated and directs a
large internet-based NASA education project that enables middle
school students to take digital pictures of the Earth from a camera
on board the Space Shuttle.

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