Monday, February 22, 1988/The Battalion/Page 3
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hallenger widow continues dreams of victims
By Tom Eikel
Reporter
the
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of those involved will con-
r*'|nue, Dr. June Scobee said Satur-
IScobee, widow of Challenger
iommander Dick Scobee, said that
Hwill move forward in her role as
ider of the Challenger Center —
■ first hands-on space education
■icenter in the nation.
^Leadership truly is a sign of
people who follow through
Htli an idea and make a comnut-
(nt,” Scobee said to more than
people attending a symposium
Ihe College Station Hilton. The
Jposium was sponsored by the
lerican Business Women’s Asso-
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Br. Bill Nash, who introduced
iJbee as his friend and his former
■ent at Texas A&M, expressed
^fidence in her ability as a leader.
1 am quite sure that the Chal
et Center will become a reality
■i her at the helm,” Nash said.
[Stu rises to each occasion with
T Mrage, with compassion and with
Bidding visions of the future.”
.®Iash, a professor of educational
■ hology at A&M, became friends
I Scobee when she began her
J tMoral studies at A&M in 1980.
lIlHlhad the privilege of serving as
'bleacher and one of her graduate
imittee advisers,” Nash said,
e pursuit of creativity and excel-
I f yn in all her endeavors . . . was
f | evjtlent to us at Texas A&M
. Bnighout her doctoral studies.”
Baring the period in which Sco-
e^oid ubejattended A&M, her husband be-
i Be involved at the University as
Dick Scobee, who died in the
‘ inai Bli Challenger explosion, was one
Ntnv. of he founding members of the
s no! Council on Development in A&M’s
isl vli PP e S e °f Education.
• , Bollowing the Challenger disaster
0 '' , H years ago, Scobee left her Uni-
■sity postilion to help develop the
Hllenger Center, and is now chair-
resho. iiian of the board of the Challenger
Phter Foundation,
cobee said that challenges are to
Photo by Melissa Martin
Dr. June Scobee, chairman of the board of the Challenger Center
and wife of Challenger Commander Dick Scobee was introduced by
Dr. William Nash at a symposium Saturday.
The Challenger Center has a two
fold purpose, Scobee said.
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be met, every day, in all facets of life
— in business, home and school —
and it is this idea of challenge for
which the center is named.
“The idea (for the center) was
born out of a love of people who
knew the crew . . . families that
came together to meet a challenge to
continue a mission for the crew of
the Challenger space shuttle,” she
said.
Scobee said the Challenger Center
will continue the shuttle’s mission to
meet the scientific and educational
goals of the crew.
headquarters located in Washington,
D.C. The center’s board is involved
in the process of selecting a site so
that construction can begin.
Scobee said this facility will be a
mock-up of a futuristic space station
complete with all the systems nec
essary to keep a space station up and
operational, including navigation,
guidance, power and environmental
control systems.
Crew members will be required to
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apply various science, math and
communications skills in order to
meet challenges and problems as
they rise in this learning facility. The
second part of the program enables
children to apply these same skills.
“It’s a futuristic program that
takes this era of education and
moves into the 21st century,” Scobee
said.
Students don flight suits and
climb aboard a flight simulator for
the journey to the space station.
Once there, Scobee said, students
and their teachers will stay on board
for as long as a week at a time, sleep
ing in the crew quarters, eating in
the galley and working on scientific
projects that they design.
All the while, the youngsters will
work as a team, solving problems.
Video cameras will monitor stu
dents in the Challenger Center, and
these signals will be transmitted via
satellite to fellow students in their
classroom back home, she said. Stu
dents at home will act as mission con
trol, guiding their friends at the cen
ter.
Each of the students in the center
will have a flight manual outlining
the specific lessons and jobs they are
to perform, site said.
“But along the way, trainers at
NASA are helping us come up with
problems,” Scobee said.
These problems, or scenarios, are
presented to the students, who must
solve them using skills learned in the
classroom — just one part of the
learning experience, she said.
Scobee said the center is unlike
most space programs for children in
that it begins in the classroom, with
students and teachers working to
gether to master the skills they will
need when they climb aboard the
space station.
Scobee said there will be a net
work of eight mission-control sta
tions and various Challenger Center
affiliate sites around the nation. The
first is being built in Houston at the
Houston Museum of Natural Sci
ence. This prototype will be a
smaller version of the center in
Washington, D.C.
The site is scheduled to open in
May, with children from the Hous
ton Independent School District
participating, she said.
The space station and mission
control for this facility are to be
housed in the same complex. Stu
dents will make use of the complex
for a two-hour period, which works
well with the classroom, she said.
Also, all of the objectives of this
program are being matched with
those of the Texas Education Asso
ciation.
Scobee said that although no
method has been set. for choosing
those classes which will participate
yet, the center’s program will begin
with students at the sixth-grade
level. Eventually the program will
expand to encompass all grade lev
els, she said.
Scobee said she hopes A&M will
play an active role in the realization
of the Challenger Center.
“We need all the help we can get
from the best in the nation, and why
not start with the Aggies?” Scobee
said, acknowledging that A&M is a
leader in the areas of technology,
communication and education.
“We hope to have a special center
located on the A&M campus. . .
and we hope to have former stu
dents join us to build Challenger
Center, especially the one here at
A&M,” she said.
Scobee said it will be up to the ad
visory group to come up with ideas
about the nature of A&M’s center. *
“It could be another prototype,”
she said. “It could be a special re
search center to help us with the
ideas to advance education and tech
nology — there are so many possibil
ities only the imaginations are a bar
rier at this point.
“I’m looking forward to working
with a team of people who can help
that.”
A&M already is participating in
some aspects of the Challenger Cen
ter program.
“Right now I’m working primarily
with educators in creating the read
ing materials for the classrooms,”
Scobee said. “That’s headed up by
Donna Norton (a professor in
A&M’s Educational Curriculum and
Instruction Department), and we
have a team of people behind them
including the president, Frank Van
diver.”
Besides her work on the center,
Scobee serves on the Governor’s
Space Science Industry Commission,
the National Advisory Board of Di
rectors for the National Association
for Gifted Children and the advisory
board of the Teacher in Space Foun
dation.
Scobee came to A&M after a suc
cessful career teaching at various
levels in public schools.
During Scobee's lirst year at
A&M, she joined with Nash in his ef
forts to start an institute for gifted
and talented youth, which involved
the development of a summer pro
gram for high ability teen-agers.
This program is held each year on
the campus of Texas A&M at Gal
veston, he said.
By her second year, Scobee had
originated an outstanding study pro
gram in space science, which still
continues today, Nash said.
“Quite naturally she involved her
husband Dick and other astronauts
as resource personnel,” he said.
“And thereby provided rare oppor
tunities for these youngsters to view
America’s f uture in space,” he said.
After receiving her Ph.D. from
A&M in 1983, Stobee taught grad
uate courses on gifted education at
the University of Houston-Clear
Lake and subsequently was elected to
serve as the director of the T exas
A&M Gifted and Talented Space
Science Program.
Scobee is the mother of two chil
dren, a son and a daughter. Her
daughter, Kathie Krause, is married
and lives in Bryan with her husband
and their son. Krause, who attended
the symposium with her mother,
works at the Public Information Of
fice at A&M.
Scobee’s son Rich, also married,
graduated from the Air Force Aca
demy in 1987 and is now in pilot
training with the Air Force.
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