DATE
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TIME
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ACTIVITY
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TOPIC
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Sunday
June 22
|
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Arrivals, Welcome BBQ
|
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Monday
June 23
|
|
Academy Orientation
(morning)
Meeting with PIs
(afternoon)
|
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Tuesday
June 24
|
|
Academy Team-Building - led by Lynn Harper
|
|
Thursday
June 26
|
|
Start Research Projects
|
|
Thursday
June 26
|
6 PM |
Doug O’Handley: Dinner/Talk
|
Introduction to Astrobiology
|
Friday
June 27
|
8 AM
|
Breakfast with Space Grant Directors
|
|
Wednesday
July 2
|
9 am – 12 pm
|
Desert Research Institute
|
Lectures on Extreme Environments
|
Thursday
July 3
|
|
Team-work skills - rafting down the TruckeeRiver
|
|
Tuesday
July 8
|
6PM
|
David Morrison: Dinner/Talk
|
Near Earth Objects
|
Thursday
July 10
|
|
Breakfast Meeting with Jack Boyd
|
|
Friday
July 11
|
|
Astrobiology Colloquium
|
|
Friday-Sunday
July 11-13
|
|
Academy Alumni Weekend
|
|
Tuesday
July 15
|
6PM
|
Group Project
|
|
Wednesday-Thursday
July 16 - 17
|
|
Mid-term Research Project Reviews with PIs
|
|
Thursday
July 17
|
|
Breakfast Meeting with NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe. Midterm presentations.
|
|
Friday-Sunday
July 18 - 20
|
|
Team-work and collaboration - Yosemite
|
|
Tuesday
July 22
|
6PM
|
Guenter Riegler: Dinner/Talk
|
How NASA Makes Research and Mission Selections
|
Wednesday-Friday
July 23-25
|
|
Trip to Johnson Space Center
|
|
Friday-Sunday
July 25 - 27
|
|
Parents’ Weekend
|
|
Tuesday
July 29
|
|
Summer Science Day
|
|
Tuesday-Wednesday
July 29 - 30
|
|
Edwards Air Force Base
|
|
Wednesday
July 30
|
|
Dryden Flight Research Center
|
|
Thursday
July 31
|
|
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|
|
Friday
August 1
|
|
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
|
|
Tuesday
August 5
|
6PM
|
Tori Hoehler: Dinner/Talk
|
|
Wednesday
August 6
|
|
Visit to Lick Observatory
|
|
Thursday
August 7
|
noon
|
Seth Shostak: Lunch/Talk
|
|
Tuesday
August 12
|
6PM
|
William Borucki: Dinner/Talk
|
Extra-Solar Planets
|
Thursday
August 14
|
noon
|
Ruben Ramos: Lunch/Talk
|
|
Friday-Sunday
August 15 – 17
|
|
Monterey Bay Research Institute
|
|
Tuesday
August 19
|
6PM
|
Dinner/Talk
Emily Holton – “Gravity Shapes Life”
|
Gravity Shapes Life
|
Thursday
August 21
|
noon
|
Lunch/Talk - Marvin Christiansen
|
Current Mission Architecture
|
Friday-Sunday
August 22 – 24 |
|
Leadership, Teamwork and Collaboration - Tahoe
|
|
Wednesday-Friday
August 27 – 29
|
|
Final Reviews
|
|
Friday
August 29
|
5PM
|
Academy Ends - Farewell. . . |
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