NASA Education And PAO Still Ignore NASA's Good Stuff
Keith’s note: NASA’s Space Apps Challenge is an amazing project that is now entering its 10th year. It has a truly global reach and allows NASA to exert some potent and long-lasting soft power. Alas, other than some promotion by SMD, the NASA STEM Engagement Office and NASA Public Affairs ignore this educational activity. This tweet is one example where NASA PAO could have super-turbocharged the reach of this program – and its potential for engagement – simply by retweeting. But no. They won’t lift a finger to do that.
Just think of the vast increase in audience reach – nationally and globally – that @SpaceApps could have it #NASA PAO simply gave this tweet a simple retweet via @NASA – 47.5 MILLION instead of just 27.8 THOUSAND #spaceapps https://t.co/dO7x2RQGLb
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) July 15, 2021
Keith,
Have you been tracking your successes thus far in this noble effort? I’m asking in all seriousness; I put in my own two cents about NASA’s public affailures back in 2007 on TSR and have seen (most frustratingly) only the slightest signs of a change of consciousness.
Is there another untried path out there that might work better or are we (mostly you) tilting at impervious windmills on intractible foundations?
Until they put some new capable and qualified people with new ideas in charge nothing different is going to happen. They have more people than ever before working in education across the agency and yet the number of students or teachers they touch is minuscule and the products they produce are nonexistent.