Check out the video below and continue to vote for us!!!

You are invited to come to the Bray Hollow Nature Conservancy to join A Time for Science and Carolina Skies Astronomy Club for the Fall Equinox 2010 Star Party on Wednesday September, 22 – starting after sundown (Weather and cloud cover permitting.)

Come early (around 5:30 – 6:00) Watch the setting sun through telescopes with solar filters.  You may see sun spots.  Bring the kids early to make a sundial.  Use the setting sun to determine compass points & align the sundial.

Some of the highlights will include:

• See the Summer Triangle and the Summer Constellations
• See Venus,  Mars and Saturn
• Telescopes will be available for viewing
• A tour of the Summer Sky will be presented
• This is your chance to see and touch a Space Shuttle tire
• A flyer for this event is available here:  Fall Equinox 2010 Flyer

While at the A Time for Science Learning Center participants will have an opportunity to see, touch, explore and examine the nose-wheel tire (see above) that went into space and back on the Space Shuttle Endeavour, Mission STS-113.  This historic item is on loan from NASA and the Eastern NC Regional Science Center, Inc. (DBA GO-Science).  Bring the kids!  Bring the camera!

Registration for this event is: CLOSED

GO-Science will be hosting the following event:

“Spacetalking with Astronauts”

Friday, September 17, 2010

Free Refreshments at 9 AM / Talk Begins at 10 AM Followed by Q&A

Harvey Hall, Murphy Center
East Carolina University
300 Ficklin Dr.
Greenville, NC

From GO-Science:

Presented by the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Astrobiology@ECU, the Department of Biology, and GO-Science. At this exclusive event you will have an opportunity to hear from two astronauts that flew on the Shuttle and visited the MIR and International Space Station. This is a exciting opportunity to learn first-hand what it is like to be in space. Event parking on-site.

For complete details and tickets, visit the GO-Science website here for further information.

A Letter from the Director:

Hello Family, Friends, and Colleagues,

Nancy and I, and Melani Duffrin, need your assistance throughout the month of September.  Please help us.

Our non-profit nature and science learning center, A Time for Science has been working with ECU’s FoodMASTER program in the College of Human Ecology and ECU’s Center for Science, Math and Technology Education on a variety of approaches to use food and agricultural sciences to build a science learning environment and resources for children and teachers in eastern North Carolina.  Among various grant applications we have submitted is one to the Pepsi Refresh Project entitled “Build collaborative science learning environments for Eastern NC.”  Obtaining this grant would provide A Time for Science with $150,000 with which to improve and enhance the infrastructure and facilities at the Center and throughout the conservation lands to better handle these programs and activities.

Now to win a Pepsi Refresh Project grant requires that we receive more votes than our competitors and voting is open daily throughout the month of September.  Here’s where you and everyone in you network of friends and colleagues can help.  Go to this website http://www.refresheverything.com/foodmaster and complete the necessary sign in and vote for our proposal.  Then return every day and vote again – everyday through September.  You can cast 30 votes and we will need each and every one but you must do so only once each day.  By the way, if you have multiple e-mail addresses you can cast a vote from each one.

With your help A Time for Science will be able to make a real contribution to the improvement of science education for students and teachers in this underserved area.  So get out and vote and get all your friends to vote (and their friends, etc – you know the drill).

Finally, one last point: We hope you won’t mind but our grants people will probably be sending out frequent, friendly reminders to help you remember to get out the vote.

Thanks for your assistance in making this happen.

Sincerely,

John and Nancy Bray

(Note: This post updated to remove all interactive voting.  Webmaster – 12/28/2011)