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Alan Shepard Technology In Education Award
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L to R: Stephen
Feldman, president of the AMF; Bob Crippen, astronaut and AMF board
member; Charles Geach, 2004 Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award
winner; Laura Shepard Churchley, Alan Shepard’s daughter; James Kennedy,
center director of the Kennedy Space Center; and Bob Henry, chairman of
the AMF, corporate senior vice president of the Harris Corporation and
president of the government communications systems division of the
Harris Corporation.
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The AMF Presents
Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award
Kennedy Space
Center, Florida, May 2004
On May 2, at the
Kennedy Space Center, The Astronauts Memorial Foundation (The AMF)
honored Mr. Charles Geach as its 2004 recipient of The Alan Shepard
Technology in Education Award. Named after Alan Shepard, one of our
nation’s original seven Mercury astronauts, the first American to fly in
space, one of only 12 humans who has walked on the moon, and a former
AMF board member, this award recognizes the educator who demonstrates
excellence in the development and delivery of educational technology
programs.
Mr. Geach is an
administrator of instructional technology for the El Paso Independent
School District (EPISD) in El Paso, Texas. Inspired by NASA CONNECT™, an
Emmy®-award-winning series of free integrated math, science and
technology instructional programs for students in grades 6 – 8, the
EPISD developed NASA Connects to EPISD Live. Mr. Geach, a science
teacher for 23 years, has been involved with the broadcast program since
its inception in 1998.
While NASA CONNECT™
incorporates television broadcast, educator’s guide and Web activities,
Mr. Geach introduced the interactive component of a videoconferencing
system during the 2002 – 2003 school year. Students can now be seen and
heard, which allows for greater dynamics in learning. Mr. Geach has used
the technology of videoconferencing along with the wonders of space and
science to create a fun, informative and educational program.
The award ceremony
took place at the Radisson at the Port in Cape Canaveral. Astronaut
Robert Crippen and Alan Shepard’s daughter, Laura Shepard Churchley,
presented the award to Mr. Geach.
The AMF is a
private 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 1986 to honor
all U.S. astronauts and astronauts flying on U.S. spacecrafts who lost
their lives on missions or while in training for missions. The AMF,
authorized by NASA, built and maintains two national facilities to
memorialize the astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex –
the National Space Mirror Memorial and the Center for Space Education.
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