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Gretchen Cook-Anderson
Headquarters, Washington                      May 14, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-0836)

RELEASE: 03-170

NASA ASTRONAUT LEADS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

     Astronaut Ronald Parise leads the first NASA sponsored, 
professional development training for the principal 
investigators of the Proyecto Access program starting May 15 
at 1:00 p.m. EDT at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (8800 
Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Md.).

Proyecto Access, an agency program administered by the 
University of Texas-San Antonio, works to broaden outreach 
to Hispanic students and organizations from across the 
country by involving them in NASA's educational programs. 
Proyecto Access consortium schools engage Hispanic middle 
and high school students in various activities to inspire 
them to pursue academic study and careers in science, 
technology, engineering and mathematics.

Proyecto Access activities include a variety of seminars: 
logic and application to math; algebraic structures; 
probability and statistics; introduction to engineering; 
introduction to computer science; introduction to physics; 
technical writing; problem solving; research; and career 
awareness. Each summer, Proyecto Access students engage in 
an eight-week intensive curriculum of math and science at 
their participating school.

During the professional development training, May 15 and 16, 
Parise, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Education 
Angela Phillips Diaz, and other agency staff will work 
closely with principal investigators to introduce the goals 
of NASA's Education Enterprise. The NASA staff will work to 
enhance the way agency content and resources are released 
into classrooms serving a primarily Hispanic student 
population.

Faculty from the Community College of Denver (Denver); 
Florida International University (Coral Gables, Fla.); 
Hostos Community College (New York); Inter-American 
University of Puerto Rico (Bayamon, P.R.); Los Angeles City 
College (Los Angeles); Jersey City University (Jersey City, 
N.J.); New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, N.M.); 
Oxnard Community College (Oxnard, Calif.); Pima Community 
College (Tucson, Ariz.); and Richard J. Daley College 
(Chicago) will participate in the inaugural Proyecto Access 
training.

For information about NASA on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

For information about NASA Education programs on the 
Internet, visit:

http://education.nasa.gov

For information about the Proyecto Access Program on the 
Internet, visit:

http://www.texprep.org

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