Chattanooga's UTC Challenger STEM Learning Center continues its mission despite a Covid challenger

Chattanooga's UTC Challenger STEM Learning Center continues its mission despite a Covid challenger

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The information on how to write bearing today into the path couple of executive director of the challenger center.

Doctor perry dory good morning doctor story boarding how are you doing very well.

You are a sober waiting to see how things go with the school absolutely can briefly tell us a little bit about you.

Doctor june will be rogers who is really the rain behind the challenger centers i her vision for the answers.

Bill rogers is fortunate that she lived spiritual chosen to live here as the founding director for the mac.

Considering dc and as under the umbrella for all the audio from the world.

She has been the inspiration and stem education for over 30 years.

When you think about the milestones at starting program over 30 years ago that at least focus wasn't called but it is now.

It's a remarkable legacy or her in her vision of what could be done with space programs based missions and working with you very much in the forefront of what we like you mentioned now.

Now i and education centers in independently line any documented it a few moments ago course the coronavirus has the loop and everyone plan and are fared over the past month and how are things today still one of the things that is our network program.

We actually ha our national meeting two days ago i read a conference we normally go to the sea of habit was opportunity for us to link it with all were of the centers see what was going on and that they were the same situations.

Most of we have some centers that are connected with schools we have some connected with our education like us and we have some that are in the so all those are working their way yours for us ... we actually had our 20 fifth anniversary on march 12 and about a few days later is when the shutdown process happening so we were having a another successful year on track to eat our our annual goal 10,000 was customers coming in to the center and that everything to stop.

The next that's what happened around the world centers.

It doesn't matter where it is slightly so what we really have been doing is working her way through reintegrating back into our center as a university campus.

We've also been re- integrating back to you as of monday was the first day for you to see students come back in an are building here is not just a center for the child that is also university the hose teacher education program classes, and so this week were getting to se what like having students back in her classroom and that's been an exciting for us to also been in these for you to see the back are our next steps that were involved with his sickly waiting any monitoring and working with a local school to see how their started wing on it is your world where i is ported on it there so many different ways.

Rules are starting starting fulltilt, starting wit harvard, starting with a lot of to campus and so were what waiting the helmets will operate so we can gauge what tops of provide and we think will basically be doing multilevel programming until maybe things get back right at you so overlooking at his support mission work working and then we are also be taken from the open and there were actuall looking really really excited about that perfect of course it is always exciting to have you to return back into the classroom.

Things like that closer to what we know as our previous normal, but we are in new normal.

Now i'm learning more about this virtual mission to parents her interest that in learning more on minor being a part of the virtual learning.

I where we need to sign a this is a call a collaborative process with all were general that we actually started working on this in the summer.

We have big summer camps that we do.

We had cancel a lot of centers and sidebars.

We actually start working on the birth omission are coming online over the next to three weeks as we start seeing things happening and what were actually good news to deliver these into classroom with other groups that we can that we do not see that we can serve out the best way to to contact us is telephone four tw three two five two one nine one if you want to go ahead and about programs you can go to these utc.edu?challenger center for you to say challenger center.

So as we work on the next step of actually been a test conversation, teachers looking for october, november, and this writing that we can come in the schools were actually working on some stem program.

The second doctor story i hate to interrupt.

We are running out of time and we will catch.

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