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Associate Administrator for Education,
Leland Melvin recently visited the Aero

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Institute in Palmdale California where
he was updated on education outreach

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efforts at the Dryden Flight Research
Center. The Dryden education team earned

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Melvin's praise as did the institute for
its recent founding of the Palmdale

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Aerospace Academy.  A school devoted to excellence in science, technology,

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engineering, and math. Both the Aero
Institute and its Academy are operated

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by a consortium that includes NASA, the
City of Palmdale and its local school

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district. The school, the Aero Academy
that we just talked about is a perfect

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example of a partnership that's helping
get these kids motivatedand  inspired.

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We have to make sure that we...the things
that we're doing, the interventions that

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we're building have relevance to the
goals or why are we doing it?

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Melvin was also briefed on Dryden's
online classroom outreach program, the

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Digital Learning Network. And that's one
of the things that the NASA Digital Learning

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And that's one of the things that NASA Digital Learning

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Network does. Is we provide very unique
opportunities for students across the

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board. Whether it's connecting subject
matter experts, astronauts or even

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education specialists. Melvin also toured
the nearby Dryden Aircraft Operations