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Media Advisory: 00-320

St. Louis students to ‘star’ in NASA video

What:		Compton-Drew Investigative Learning Center students in St. Louis, Mo., will "star" in filming of a NASA educational video to be seen by students across the country next year. The students will be featured in an upcoming episode of "NASA CONNECT" — a series of NASA instructional video programs. Compton-Drew students will be taped while demonstrating an interactive Web site on magnetism and electricity. The episode, "Patterns, Functions and Algebra: Wired for Space," will be shown Feb. 15, 2001. It is being produced by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. NASA CONNECT is a free program, delivered to classrooms via satellite with lesson plans available on the Internet. It features standards-based activities and experiments to help educators creatively present math, science and problem-solving skills.
Who:		Students from Compton-Drew Investigative Learning Center, assisted by undergraduate student mentors from Washington University in St. Louis
When:		Tuesday, Nov. 21 9 a.m. CST
Where:		St. Louis Science Center, 5050 Oakland Ave., St. Louis
To attend:		News media interested in covering the event should contact Bev Pfiefer-Harms at the St. Louis Science Center at (314) 289-4419.