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| Paper: |
The Supernova Club: Bringing Space Science to Urban Youths |
| Volume: |
389, EPO and a Changing World: Creating Linkages and Expanding Partnerships |
| Page: |
189 |
| Authors: |
Sakimoto, P.J.; Pettit, R.; Balsara, D.; Garnavich, P. |
| Abstract: |
The Supernova Club is an experiment aimed at bringing space science to youths, almost all African Americans, from the most severely disadvantaged areas of the South Bend, Indiana, region. It leverages the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) that, in Summer 2007, brought 100 children, ages 10-16 and living at or below the poverty level, to the Notre Dame campus for a 4-week non-residential summer program. Six contact hours of space science instruction were added to the core curriculum of nutrition, physical fitness, and academic study. At summer’s end, 13 high interest/high potential youths were selected to form “The Supernova Club”-a year-round, after-school, weekly follow-up program. |
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