NEWS Release Aug. 21, 2007

Austin High, El Paso---Congratulations to Mr. Gilberto E. Monarez, Computer Teacher who received 2 (two) NASA Scholarships this summer to attend The United State Space Foundation Summer Institute 2007 at Colorado Springs, Colorado. The first scholarship was for study of the Biological and Physical Research: Human Physiology and Nanotechnology and the second scholarship, was the study the Rocketry and the Biology of Living in Space, Space History, and Space Law. These courses are experiential, hands-on and immediately transferable to the classroom. He will be sharing his experience with his students on how computers with be used to study nanomaterials, nanorobotics, and nanosensors, and how they impact the ability to survive and work in space. He will also incorporate his space law knowledge into his Business Law classes and his students will design web pages that will discover the political implications of launching rockets and other vehicles into space while discovering the fascinating aspects of space law.

Mr. Monarez also received a scholarship to attend the Zero-G Educators Program with the partnership with Northrop Grumman, sponsor of the Weightless Flights of Discovery, to bring hands-on, weightless flight experiences and workshops to the educational community. The program realizes Zero’s mission to utilize its capabilities for the public sector as a way to further teacher and student knowledge and understanding of science, while inspiring the next generation of space explorers. In its inaugural year ( 2006), the program hosted 250 teachers representing 49 states, five U.S. territories and 24 countries. Today the mission continues, reaching out to more teachers and students throughout the nation. Mr. Monarez has already successful completed the first part of two training. The first part is where the teachers learned the unique features of the Zero-G program which will allow them to develop new strategies for their classroom and ways to integrate the use of the Zero-G experience into the classroom. Mr. Monarez will complete the second part of the training: Weightless Flight (also known as Parabolic Flight) in October by conducting Science and Math experiments aboard Zero’s G’s Boeing 727 aircraft named G-Force One.