Challenger Learning Center of Ky

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In the spring of 1996, former Hazard High School Home Economics teacher Alice Noble visited a Challenger Learning Center in Brownsburg, Indiana, just outside of Indianapolis. She immediately knew that the progressive leaders in her hometown would love the Challenger Learning Center concept to get kids excited about learning science, mathematics, and technology and would jump at the opportunity to locate one in Hazard. She was right! By September of 1996, Hazard, Kentucky was the first rural site ever to be approved by the Challenger Center for Space Science Education for a Challenger Learning Center. The Challenger Center for Space Science Education was created in response to the grief and tragedy of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in which seven Americans lost their lives, including Christa McAuliffe, who was to be the first "teacher in space". The Challenger Crew had set out on a mission to broaden educational horizons and promote the advancement of scientific knowledge. So, the family members of these astronauts decided to do something positive that would continue their mission. They resolved to create a living memorial to the Challenger crew-the world s first interactive space science education center where teachers and their students could use state-of-the-art technology and space-life simulators to explore space themselves. The first Challenger Learning Center opened a few months later in Houston, Texas. ...

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