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(Dean Kern) K-12 predominantly works with the public education systems. We're working with

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public school teachers, and we're working with content standards. Currently, we're

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focusing on middle school for the
student outreach activities. Middle

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school is really one of those areas in
which there is avoidance of strong

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content, especially for middle school
teachers in the STEM area.

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Currently we run several different high
school internship programs here at

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Goddard Space Flight Center. We have the
INSPIRE program, which is a NASA

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agency-wide program for all freshmen
through seniors in high school. And then

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we also bring in interns through what we
call mentor funded. They actually work in

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the labs, alongside the scientists and
the researchers, these internships often

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will further propel students to seek
higher STEM content and academic courses

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in their high schools and on into their
college careers.

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