Thousands Of Orange County Students Learn About STEM Careers And Environmental Topics From Leading Global Experts
The nation’s largest event of its kind celebrated 24 years of educating students about water and the environment in an expanded week-long virtual format. The Youth Environmental Summit (YES), formerly known as Children’s Water Education Festival, is a free virtual field trip featuring live and on-demand programs for Orange County’s third, fourth and fifth grade students. More than 6,600 students from more than 90 Orange County schools registered to attend YES during Earth Week, April 19 through April 23, and approximately 4,500 students tuned in daily during three days of live presentations.
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Look for virtual Earth Day events on April 22 and other at-home happenings
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It can be a real team effort, even if the initial seed of a super-awesome adventure first sprouts in a single curious mind.
Likewise, a major happening that celebrates the sciences, as well as dreamers, inventors, and citizen scientists, too, works best when it is a robust team effort.
Oceanside
April 4, 1968, was one of the best days of Shelby Jacobs’ life. It was also one of the worst.
Early that morning, the now-85-year-old “hidden figure” of NASA’s space program proved the success of a camera system he’d adapted for use on the Apollo 6 spacecraft. But that now-famous slow-motion film footage, which was among the first to show the curvature of the Earth from space, was overshadowed that evening by the assassination of Jacobs’ longtime hero, Martin Luther King, Jr.
A still from the video footage of a section of the Saturn V rocket separating from the unmanned Apollo 6 spacecraft on April 4, 1968. Oceanside resident Shelby Jacobs adapted the camera system that shot this video.
NASA ‘hidden figure’ Shelby Jacobs answered MLK’s call to Alabama
Updated Jan 18, 2021;
Posted Jan 18, 2021
OCEANSIDE, CA - JANUARY 14: Retired NASA engineer Shelby Jacobs, 85, poses for photos at his home on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 in Oceanside, CA. (Eduardo Contreras / The San Diego Union-Tribune)TNS
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By Pam Kragen The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
April 4, 1968, was one of the best days of Shelby Jacobs’ life. It was also one of the worst.
Early that morning, the now-85-year-old “hidden figure” of NASA’s space program proved the success of a camera system he’d adapted for use on the Apollo 6 spacecraft. But that now-famous slow-motion film footage, which was among the first to show the curvature of the Earth from space, was overshadowed that evening by the assassination of Jacobs’ longtime hero, Martin Luther King, Jr.