UTB-TSC kicks off sixth annual NASA Space Day
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College will kick off their sixth annual NASA Space Day Friday.
The event is sponsored by the South Texas Engineering Math and Science Mentoring Club.
A preview of Polar-Palooza, presented by the educational group Passport to Knowledge and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will be held Friday in the lecture hall of the Science Engineering Technology Building, or SET-B, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Then event will be held again on Saturday morning for students.
This presentation will explore the central concept of this year's Space Day event, "Discovering Ice Worlds: A Key to Understanding How Ice Affects our Planet and our Distant Neighbors."
On Saturday, more than 700 students from across the Rio Grande Valley are slated to flood the university's campus.
Students traveling from as far as Zapata will wake up at 4 a.m. to make the trip to Brownsville for the day's first events.
More than 20 activities will take place simultaneously, including hands-on presentations by NASA scientists and a moving exhibit of a replica of one of the Mars rovers, which have trolled the surface of the red planet for five years sending millions of images back to earth.
Saturday's events will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, contact STEMS Program Director Javier Garcia at (956) 882-5058.
