Explorer At Large

13/10/2021

Explorer At Large is honored to be a part of Project Ianos and excited to share more about it in the weeks and months ahead.

Club for the Future is a 501(c)3 nonprofit founded by Blue Origin in 2019 and a partner of Project Ianos. As part of the program, Club for the Future offers ...

25/07/2021

Hey there! Do you know a student in grades 5-8 who loves space...? Someone who would like to be in a video, asking a question about space, as part of our STEM education work for NASA...? If so, please send an email to [email protected] and we'll provide more info! Nothing fancy -- this can be filmed on an iPhone in your living room or outside and sent via e-mail same day. Looking for 3 curious young souls to bring some very cool space content to life. Thanks!!

19/05/2021

Woo hoo!! 🏆 Great news -- and thanks!

THANK YOU!! As a result of the overwhelming support from people voting from 156 countries around the world, the Project Ianos video won the Public Choice Award in the 2021 STEM For All Video Showcase! Only 13 videos (of 287 submitted) earned this distinction and we are sincerely grateful for your support.

Next up... We're excited to soft-launch Project Ianos content into US middle schools this summer. If you'd like more information about that, please visit ProjectIanos.org and sign up with your e-mail.

Again, thank you!!
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11/05/2021

Explorer At Large is honored to be part of this amazing new STEM education initiative called "Project Ianos" launching this summer.

To learn more about it, you can watch this short, 3-minute video in the 2021 STEM for All Video Showcase that went live today. Between May 11 and May 18, you can browse 287 videos of the latest federally-funded projects to transform STEM. We hope you'll watch the video for "Project Ianos: Past, Present and Future of Human Spaceflight" and give it your vote for Public Choice! 🙏

And to our friends in education, we are excited to bring Project Ianos to your classrooms and students soon!

Project Ianos represents an exciting collaboration of industry-leading space organizations, education specialists, and communication experts to help students in grades 5-8 from underserved populati...

14/03/2021

Always so rewarding to have classrooms outside!

Immersive forest schools, in which students are instructed outside rather than in classrooms, have become a learning experience for many – and have added benefits in a time of pandemic.

16/12/2020

Congrats, Annalies Corbin! Great article

The global system of preparing people to make meaningful contributions to society while enjoying economic safety does not work. What if we just started

03/12/2020

“Everyone on the Project Ianos team is so honored to have been selected for this opportunity,” said Josh Bernstein, CEO of Explorer At Large (XAL). “To date, all of Explorer At Large’s Instructional Units have been based on video content we produced with funding from the Smithsonian Institution and Department of Education. We couldn’t be more excited to produce immersive, hands-on content featuring the experts, facilities, and legacy of NASA.”

Project Ianos NASA Grant announcement

16/01/2020

How does one change the world? One student at a time or, in this case, one classroom at a time. This past weekend, the newest cohort of Explorer At Large (XAL) Teachers from schools around Columbus, Ohio completed the professional development training for their first XAL Instructional Unit — Pollinators. Twenty teachers met at the PAST Foundation's Innovation Lab for an interactive, fun day of watching XAL Videos, designing XAL Activities, and figuring out how best to make their students courageous, curious explorers. More to come!!

29/12/2019

Why the “A” for Arts in STEAM education is so important

Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica explain how a school redistributed funds to bring back arts education and saw student behavior improve dramatically.

04/09/2019

"Speaking at a luncheon commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1939 school-bus conference, Cyr recalled that some school districts, by the time of the conference, had already adopted yellow as their school-bus color. Others, though, wanted to paint their buses red, white, and blue...."

Rural educator Frank Cyr had the vision and pull to force the nation to standardize the color of the ubiquitous vehicle