Applications open for Honeywell Educators at Space Academy programme

Applications have opened for the Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) programme at the US Space & Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, home to Space Camp and the Apollo 16 capsule.

The all-expenses paid professional development programme helps teachers develop innovative lesson plans for STEM subjects.

The programme includes 45 hours of classroom and laboratory instruction focused on science, space exploration and leadership skills development. Teachers will participate in astronaut-style exercises such as high-performance jet simulation, scenario-based space missions, coding challenges, land and water survival training and interactive flight dynamics programs. Through these exercises, teachers can

The week-long programme will run twice at the USSRC's Space Camp - from June 13-19, 2018 and from June 20-26, 2018.

To be eligible for the 2018 HESA program, educators must be currently teaching science or math to students aged 10-14 years old and should continue to teach these subject areas through 2018. Eligible teachers can apply online at https://educators.honeywell.com/application, and must submit their applications before November 14, 2017.

Created in 2004 by Honeywell Hometown Solutions, the company's corporate citizenship initiative, in partnership with the USSRC, HESA is a scholarship programme that has graduated 2,776 educators from 62 countries and 52 U.S. states and territories since it launched, reaching more than 3 million students around the world.