Challenger Learning Center

Challenger Learning Center executive to step down after 20 years of service

Published: January 11, 2022 | 3:09 pm | Posted in: University News

Florida A&M University and Florida State University announced today that Michelle Personette, the executive director of Tallahassee’s Challenger Learning Center (CLC), will step down on Feb. 3, 2022. Personette has led the center, which is the K-12 STEM outreach facility of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, since 2004. Prior to that, she served as its […]

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visits Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee

Published: October 1, 2021 | 5:47 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Florida State University and Florida A&M University welcomed NASA Administrator Bill Nelson to the Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee on Friday. The center is the K-12 outreach facility of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, the joint engineering institution for the two universities. Nelson joined FSU President Richard McCullough and FAMU President Larry Robinson for a […]

Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee offers remote space mission simulator

Published: March 1, 2021 | 11:41 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

A student participates in a virtual Europa Encounter mission. (Courtesy of the Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee)

When the COVID-19 pandemic curtailed some of the in-person activities typically offered by Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee, the science center created an online space mission that has since been used by hundreds of students. The center, which is the K-12 outreach facility of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, adapted its on-site space mission simulator […]

InternFSU helps students land meaningful experiences

Published: September 26, 2019 | 12:53 pm | Posted in: Students & Campus Life

Intern Zekia Santiago and her InternFSU supervisor. Santiago, a senior majoring in recreation, tourism and events, interned as a marketing and outreach coordinator for the FSU Women’s Basketball Team through InternFSU. (The Career Center)

Florida State University students no longer have to travel off-campus to land significant and life-changing internships. The InternFSU program at Florida State University provides 100 on-campus paid experiential learning opportunities for currently enrolled full-time, undergraduate, degree-seeking FSU students during the fall and spring semesters. Students — regardless of financial resources and family background — can […]

Florida State University Schools teacher receives national award for innovation

Published: May 10, 2018 | 7:19 pm | Posted in: University News

A Florida State University Schools teacher has received a national award for her innovative work in teaching science, technology, engineering and math. Nancy Rosenbaum, a fifth-grade teacher at FSUS, received the 2018 June Scobee Rodgers Innovative Educator Award from the Challenger Center Thursday, May 10, in a presentation in front of her students, family and […]

Students meld engineering, art at Challenger Learning Center exhibit

Published: September 13, 2016 | 2:41 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, Science & Technology

Would you be surprised to learn that art students use engineering software on their work? Or laser cutting? How about 3D printing? Much to the surprise of two engineering graduate students who took Mechatronic Art 2, these design software applications are unquestionably a part of the artistic design process. Jason Brown, a doctoral student in […]

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