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Media Advisory: 00-306

Industry and education forge partnership, kick off discussions at NASA Marshall Center Thursday
*Embargoed until Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000*

What:	Industry representatives, educators, community leaders and a representative from the White House will kick-off a series of discussions at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., on the role of industry in primary and secondary education. Hosted by U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer of Alabama's 5th Congressional District, participants will seek new ways to enhance partnerships between local educators and industry. The Marshall Center participates in several initiatives in support of education excellence. These include the Great Moonbuggy Race, a nationwide competition that challenges students to design and build a human-powered lunar vehicle; the FIRST robotics competition, in which high school students work alongside NASA engineers to design a robot; Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), a worldwide network of students, teachers and scientists learning more about our planet; the student reusable launch vehicle project, which helps high school and college students successfully build and launch reusable rockets carrying an actual science payload; and other education and scholarship initiatives.
Who:	Dr. Duncan Moore, associate director for technology, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Art Stephenson, Marshall Center director U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer of Alabama's 5th Congressional District Educators, industry leaders and government officials from Huntsville and the surrounding area
When:	Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000 7:30-9:30 a.m.
Where:	NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Building 4200, conference room P-110, tenth floor