June 25 & June 27, 12:00-1:30 pm, “The American Rocketeer”

July 1 & July 3, 12:00-1:00 pm, “Explorer One”

July 9 & July 11, 12:00-1:00 pm, “Destination Moon”

July 16 & July 19, 12:00-1:30 pm, “The Changing Face of Mars”

July 30 & Aug 2, 12:00-1:00 pm, “Ring World: The Story of Cassini”

Deborah is a mechanical engineer in 385.  She has taught a high school engineering class at Clark Magnet High School in La Crescenta for the past 2 years, while working at JPL.  She holds a Career Technical Education (CTE) preliminary teaching credential via the ROP program.  For more information about the ROP program, please contact Deborah directly via JPL email.

You “google” all the times, but are you satisfied with the results you find? Do you usually just look at the first three results? If you don’t see what you are looking for, what do you do? Do you want to be more effective when you use Google? Are there tips for getting better results? If you are interested in any of these questions, this is the workshop for you.

The class will assume some familiarity with Google search, but will also cover a review of basic techniques.  The focus will be on improving your search results, and ideas to save you time in finding hard to locate technical information.

At the end of the class, you will learn:

• Ways to improve the accuracy of your Google search results,
• How to find “hard to find” information,
• How to find the needle in a haystack,
• How to locate  technical information,
• How to search for images.

Bringing back extinct animals, 15 year olds inventing cancer detectors, human beatboxers… These are just some of the “Ideas Worth Spreading” that you might hear at a TED conference. Dan Goods has been fortunate enough to attend a few of these events over the years as a volunteer, attendee, and even showing artwork related to JPL missions. Come for a special showing of a few of this years unreleased talks. Learn the difference between TED and TED Active/Global/Africa/X events. And get some history and back story to this global phenomenon.

For information on the JPL Stories series, contact Teresa Bailey at 4-9233.

• Error Detection and Correction: based on the communication algorithm between our Flight Control Center and MSL Curiosity, children and parents get a glimpse of how the team on earth can be certain that the commands transmitted from earth to Curiosity are all correct, and how the information transmitted back from Mars is the same as when it was originated.

• I/O Mind Reading: with simple yes or no answer, the mind reader will be able to decipher a number between 1 and 144 the player has chosen in mind.
• Deck out: played with cards, the child make one change among the cards on the table, and see how the grown-up player figure out which card was changed.
• Make Four in a Line: combining multiplication skills and strategy, whoever makes four in a line on a board wins.
• Tangram: make figures based on seven-pieces of basic shapes. For those interested, they can keep the set.
• Math riddles and jokes: many kids love to tell jokes or riddles, here are some with math facts in their answers.
• Guess What’s Under the Red Cup: a probability game for those who like to take a chance!
• Math books and ebooks on display for parents: selected books will be on display at the current magazine area, with QR code for links to additional ebooks.

We will also show the movie, “The Changing Face of Mars: Beginnings of the Space Age”, from 9:30-11:00 am.

For assistance with any of the Hardware on Display or to obtain a unit for your lab, please contact the Loan Pool & Metrology Group at ext 3-7662, http://imte.jpl.nasa.gov, or email metrology@jpl.nasa.gov

For assistance with developing a customized system that make use of the equipment, please contact the Measurement Systems & Instrumentation (MSI) Group at ext 3-1458, http://msi.jpl.nasa.gov, or email msi@jpl.nasa.gov

The JPL Library receives returned “desk copies” and occasional book donations from employees.  After adding the appropriate ones to the library’s collection, there are duplicate copies and slightly out-of-scope books remaining.  The “Desk Copy Exchange” is for all JPLers; come take a look and provide a new home to the books so that they are useful again!

There are books on programming languages, MS Office applications, sciences, engineering,and  business management.   The Exchange will be held on March 5 and 6, between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm, or until all these books find new homes, whichever first.

Due to the large size of Curiosity and precise landing requirements of the mission, the MSL EDL system required a single 70 ft diameter parachute, deployed at up to two times the speed of sound on Mars. For decades it was a mystery why supersonic parachutes experienced violent oscillations above a certain speed. It was critical to the mission that the super-sized parachute would survive and perform as designed, necessitating an answer to this mystery once and for all. Come learn how supersonic parachutes behave on Mars and the story behind the supersonic parachute qualification for MSL.

For information on the JPL Stories series, contact Teresa Bailey at 4-9233.

If you cannot leave your office or lab, you can also attend the webinar from your office.

Online meeting details

Topic: IEEE Xplore Briefing for JPL Researchers

Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Time: 1:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time

Meeting Number: 636 767 329 

Meeting Password: JPLFeb12 

To join the online meeting (Now from mobile devices!) 

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