Meet your STEM heroes virtually! Use Augmented reality (AR) to ‘Reach Across the Stars’ and learn about women who have blazed trails in space and STEM. Meet Kimberly Arcand! Dr. Kimberly Arcand is one of the world’s preeminent experts in astronomy visualization and has been a pioneer in 3D imaging and extended reality in astrophysics. …
Meet Shannon Messner! Job Title: Sr. Designer and Illustrator, Artemis Communications Team, NASA Shannon Messner is a graphic designer and digital illustrator who currently resides in Reston, Virginia. She discovered her love for art and illustration as a young girl, and this discovery lead her on a path that eventually became her life-long career. What is …
Ready to look at bubbles in a whole new light? Bubbles are simple to play with, but they have some pretty complex science behind them. For Dr. Lauren Zarzar, a scientist at Penn State University’s Center for Nanoscale Science, bubbles are a great example of how the properties of materials can change depending on the environment around them—sometimes in surprising …
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