GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP THROUGH SPACE EDUCATION FOUNDATION from schools in different twelve campers from countries through: different countries and • E-mailing between make lasting friendships. students about space- All programs are related projects and conducted in English. THE PARTNER SCHOOL sharing information about 6- Day Turkish- SCIENCE their daily lives. PROGRAM Language Space Camp NEWSLETTER • Collaborative research on Program (summer Year 6 NASA’s digital-learning sessions): This program Issue 1 website. is offered to students • Videoconferencing throughout Turkey whose between partner schools families do not have the and NASA. financial means to attend Space Camp. The • Meeting at Space Camp Turkey at a special program is offered in summer session called Turkish because most Turkish students from Astro Astro December 15, “E-Pal Week”. 2011 Scholarship Programs Global Global Friendship Through Friendship’s Space Education is a scholarship California-based 501(c)3 program has non-profit organization two founded in 2002. It is components: dedicated to promoting friendship among young 6-Day people from different International countries and cultures Space Camp through the study of space- Program disadvantaged related science and (summer sessions): Since backgrounds do not speak technology. 2002, young people English well enough to between the ages of 12-15 participate in the The goal of global friendship from over thirty different international program. is accomplished through a countries have participated These campers have the variety of programs. in these six-day programs. opportunity to meet young Partner School Science The experience not only people from all different Program stimulates the campers’ regions of Turkey and to Year-long program called interest in science and participate in a unique the Partner School Science math, but also offers them educational program. Program connects students the opportunity to work side-by-side in teams of

1 FIRST MEET AND GREET VIDEOCONFERENCE 2011-2012 SCHOOL YEAR The videoconference took place The items on the patch between Turk College (Izmır, represented cooperation and Turkey) and Rawson-Sounders friendship between their two Middle School in Austin, Texas, US countries: Turkey and the United on November 18, 2011. States Students were able to meet with their partners and share hobbies with each other. Some of them were a fan of playing tennis, basketball, computer game, reading books. Turkish students shared their mission patch design with students in their partner school. US students shared their mission patch after the Students exchanged questions videoconference. and were surprised to find that their similarities were more than their differences.

NASA WEBCAST Two PSSP schools -- Browne Academy`s http:// Browne Academy in PSSP teacher, Mr. Paul challenger.kzoplatfor Alexandria, Virginia and Cummins organized the m/swf/player/5 SEV Primary School in internet event, which Izmir, Turkey -- included questions from To provide feedback participated with NASA students at Browne about the webcast, in a webcast on Dec.1, Academy and please fill out the 2011. The media previously emailed evaluation form on presentation, made by submissions from the following link: Mr. Troy Cline of students at SEV NASA`s Goddard Primary School. http:// Space Center, focused www.challenger.org/ on earth`s magnetic You can find this internal/ field and its relation to recorded presentation webcasteval.cfm the sun. on the following link: news - NEWS - news - NEWS

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The Cone Nebula Orion Arm surrounding the star Nebula is a Latin word. It means a cluster. The bright star at the cloud between stars formed by centre of this picture, dust, hydrogen, helium and other photographed by the Hubble gasses. This particular nebula is Space Telescope, is 15 located in the Monocerotis or 'S Monocerotis. It constellation. It was discovered on is a quadruple star system December 26, 1785 by William consisting of four brilliant blue- Herschel, a German-born British white stars and it is partly astronomer (1738 – 1822). responsible for causing the nebula to glow. The Cone Nebula is so named * Light Year: A light-year, also light year or because of its apparent shape. light-year (symbol: ly) is a unit of length, equal The cone is actually a dark to just under 10 trillion kilometers (10×1015 absorption nebula consisting of meters, about 6 trillion miles). As defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a cold molecular hydrogen and dust. light-year is the distance that light travels in a The Cone Nebula is located about vacuum in one year. 2,700 light-years* away from The light-year is often used to measure Earth. distances to stars and other distances on a galactic scale, especially in non-specialist and The Cone Nebula is a well-known popular science publications.

Astronomy Picture Day of The feature of the Milky Way Galaxy’s

ASTRO DID YOU KNOW? Editor: R. Tolga Yildirim [email protected] The ozone layer is a layer in Earth’s atmosphere which contains relatively high www.gftse.org concentrations of ozone(O3). This layer absorbs 97–99% of the Sun's high frequency ultraviolet light, which is potentially damaging to the life forms on Earth.

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