NASA Sends Arkansas Teacher Amber Fenix Back to School

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, July 18, 2008 Source: Goddard Space Flight Center Amber Fenix, junior high school teacher at North Heights Junior High School in Texarkana, Ark., spent a week of challenge and discovery at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Fenix, maiden name Reedy, is a 2002 graduate of the University of Georgia, Athens. The content workshop was designed to provide NASA Explorer School educators an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the work NASA accomplishes and how to implement that knowledge within their classroom. "This is an exciting time at Goddard," says Trena Ferrell, coordinator for the workshop. "Currently Goddard is working a number of science missions and we definitely want to inform and excite educators from across the country. It is most important to inspire... [read full story]