{"id":3364,"date":"2014-01-21T04:05:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:08:51","slug":"catholic-school-teacher-selected-for-nasa-science-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/catholic-school-teacher-selected-for-nasa-science-flights","title":{"rendered":"Catholic School Teacher Selected for NASA Science Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting STEM news for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carmelhs.org\/\">Carmel Catholic High School<\/a> in Mundelein, Illinois:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MUNDELEIN, Ill.\u2014\u00a0NASA&#8217;s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, will become a flying classroom for Carmel Catholic science teacher Marcella Linahan during research flights that she will participate in as an Airborne Astronomy Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MarcellaLinahan-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marcella Linahan\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MarcellaLinahan-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MarcellaLinahan.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Ms. Linahan and her partner,\u00a0Lynne Zielinski from the National Space Society, Long Grove, Ill., are one of\u00a0twelve two-person teams that have been selected for SOFIA&#8217;s Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program, representing educators from 10 states.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Ms. Linahan will\u00a0spend one week at\u00a0Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif.\u00a0training and then flying on SOFIA for two missions.\u00a0Each team will be paired with a professional astronomer to observe how airborne infrared astronomy is conducted. After her flight opportunity, Ms. Linahan will take what she has learned back to Carmel Catholic to promote science literacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited that I can experience astronomical data collection first-hand, and then bring this data and experience back to my students,\u201d Ms. Linahan remarked. \u201cI am passionate about exposing the students to authentic science research. I want them to realize that a STEM career is something that is exciting and obtainable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/mundelein.suntimes.com\/news\/schools\/nasa_selects_carmel_catholic_teacher_marcella_lina-MUN-01172014:article\">the whole story at the Mundelein Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting STEM news for Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein, Illinois: MUNDELEIN, Ill.\u2014\u00a0NASA&#8217;s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, will become a flying classroom for Carmel Catholic science teacher Marcella Linahan during research flights that she will participate in as an Airborne Astronomy Ambassador. Ms. Linahan and her partner,\u00a0Lynne Zielinski from the National Space &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/catholic-school-teacher-selected-for-nasa-science-flights\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catholic School Teacher Selected for NASA Science Flights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[145,38,143,75,144],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-astronomy","tag-catholic-teachers","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-stem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NASA-Sofia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-Sg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}