Our guest on this Space Marketing Podcast is Kaci Heins. She is Director of Education with the Limitless Space Institute. Limitless Space Institute’s mission is Inspire and educate the next generation to travel beyond our solar system and support the research and development of enabling technologies.

Kaci is one of the expert panelists for the Space for Kentucky Roundtable on Aug 31 for the Back to school – Educator Resources and Tools. Limitless Space Institute provides experience, education, and tools for educators to bring space to the classroom. 

https://spaceforkentucky.com

Limitless Space Institute mission provides comprehensive resources and support to K-12 educators, provide community outreach programming, and develop K-12 STEM lesson plans tied to interstellar space travel.

https://www.limitlessspace.org

Video version: https://youtu.be/V-FuPdy-S0k

CHAPTERS

01:17 Space for Kentucky

02:21 Introduction of Kaci Heins

03:14 Kaci’s journey to the space industry

07:53 Limitless Space Institute video clip

12:32 About Limitless Space Institute

16:09 Wright Brothers to Warp Drive

17:50 Transition from teacher to Director of Education

19:59 Three pillars – Curriculum design

19:59 Three pillars – Educator Professional Development

21:50 Three pillars – Community Outreach

22:06 Next round of applications 2024 Cohort launches on Aug 15

22:35 Rober Aillon

23:06 Teaching Challenges

24:00 Outreach challenges

27:20 Marketing

28:38 Successful outreach strategies

30:01 Future of space

35:32 Final Thoughts

Zero G

https://www.gozerog.com/

Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award

https://www.amfcse.org/alan-shepard-technology-in-education-award

LSI Grants and Fellowships

https://www.limitlessspace.org/lsi-2022-solicitation/

Dr. White

https://www.limitlessspace.org/sonny-white/

Solar Space sails

https://www.planetary.org/articles/what-is-solar-sailing

Teacher Tuesday

https://www.limitlessspace.org/education/

Axiom 

https://www.axiomspace.com/

Venus Aerospace

https://www.venusaero.com/

Pocket Labs

https://www.thepocketlab.com/

Overview effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

ABOUT IZZY

Izzy’s website – https://izzy.house

Author of Space Marketing: Competing in the new commercial space industry AND Space Marketing: Spaceports on Amazon and Audible – https://bit.ly/Space-Marketing

Podcast host for Space Marketing Podcast – https://spacemarketingpodcast.com

Organizer for Space for Kentucky Roundtable – https://spaceforkentucky.com

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