2023-24 Celebración Celestial

Come back to this event page often to check for new eclipse & space events posted to our site. If you have an event you’d like us to add, please share all the event information by completing the form on the Contact Us tab.

General Timeline of Activities (come back soon for exact details)

Fall 2023

• Educator Gala at The DoSeum September 9, 2023 from 3:00-9:30 pm. Local educational community organizations are invited to host a table/booth at this event to share your resources and activities with teachers. 
• Training Event for Eclipse Event Volunteers
• Saturday, October 14, 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse end around 12 pm CDT in San Antonio, Texas

Spring 2024

• Monday, April 8th Total Solar Eclipse ends around 1:30 pm CDT in San Antonio, Texas

October 14, 2023: Solar Eclipse Map with Totality Path and Times

Read more about this eclipse here.

April 8, 2024: Solar Eclipse Map with Totality Path and Times

Read more about this eclipse here.

Contact our ASE Eclipse Leads to collaborate with us!

Sarah Rowley: sarahrowley@wittemuseum.org

Richard Kissel, rkissel@thedoseum.org

2023 Summer Camps

Come back to this event page often to check for camps posted to our site. You will also find camps listed under the months June-July below. If you have an event you’d like us to add, please share all the event information by completing the form on the Contact Us tab.

Palo Alto College: 

Registration for our summer programs has started. Multiple options for middle and high school students.

Registration Link: https://www.alamo.edu/pac/experience-pac/campus-life/youth-education/youth-summer-camp/

Middle School Options:

June 5th – 16th: 

• Code the Future: AutoAuto

July 10th – 21st 

• Code the Future: Finch Robot

July 17th – 21

• Mind Training Program future Engineers

STEM Summer Experience Dates:

• 6/5-6/9
• 6/12-6/16
• 6/20-6/23
• 6/26-6/30
• 7/10-7/14
• 7/24-7/28
• 7/31-8/4

High School Options:

Introduction to Veterinary Technology:

• 6/5-6/9

Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robotics Camp:

• 6/26-6/30

Logistics and Supply chain of Pizza:

• 7/10-7/14

Careers in Science Research: Am I a Scientist Yet?:

• 6/26-6/30
• 7/10-7/14
• 7/17-7/21
• 7/24-7/28

Applied Electronics and Soldering:

• 7/10-7/14

BioExplorer: Diving into the Word of Biology Careers:

• 7/17-7/21
• 7/24-7/28

Spatial Skills and Visualizations Training for Future Engineers:

• 7/24-7/28

Fundamental Usage of Household Tools:

• 7/31-8/4

January is National Mentoring Month!

January 8-14

• ASE Monthly Networking Event at The Octa-Tetra Museum (with a virtual option too) is on January 11th.
• January 14th – To celebrate Dream Week 2023: Citizenship Ceremony for children and their families, with keynote speaker Clarke Finney (private ceremony in partnership with USCIS). Clarke will then lead a public reading of their book The Perfect Mix for all Guests, with associated activity to celebrate diversity.

January 15-21

• Countdown to Engineers Week 2023 Webinar
  January 19th from noon – 1 p.m. EST – We’re fast approaching Engineers Week (Feb. 19 to 25) and Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (Feb. 23). Are you looking for inspiration, ideas, or advice to spice up your plans? Attend this free and informative webinar and get ideas you can use right away!Learn more about Engineers Week: https://discovere.org/engage/engineers-week/
  Learn more about Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day: https://discovere.org/engage/girl-day/
• Tiffany Flores, Director of Public Relations for Harmony Public Schools South Texas District (tflores@harmonytx.org).  Our newest campus, Harmony School of Science is seeking judges for two First Lego League (FLL) events that will take place on their campus Saturday, January 21st, and Saturday, February 4th – roughly from 8 am – 2 pm.  Ms. Akgul (ferda.ozturk@harmonytx.org) is overseeing the events on the campus.  If you are interested in being a judge, please contact Ms. Akgul. 

January 22-28

• eCYBERMISSION Virtual STEM Competition
  January 25th Registration Closes
  eCYBERMISSION is a web-based STEM competition for students in grades 6-9.
  Each team needs:

• • 2-4 students
  • An adult Team Advisor
  • A community problem to explore or try to solve

• “The Impact of STEM Role Models and Mentors” Webinar by National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) on January 26th at 5 pm CST. NGCP is celebrating National Mentoring Month in January by highlighting the importance of mentors in empowering girls and young women to actively pursue STEM education and careers. Participants will learn from a panel of STEM professionals and the young women and girls they are mentoring. Speakers will share their journeys and advice on how mentoring can be a tool for supporting sustained career success in STEM.

January 29-31

February is Black History Month & Engineers Week (Feb. 19-25)

February 1-4

• February 1st – our Monthly ASE Networking Meeting (F2F Location is TBD and an online option is available).
  The registration link is at the top of this events page.
• EngineerGirl: Better Great Achievements Writing Contest. The 2023 contest encourages youth to write an essay demonstrating how female and/or non-white engineers have contributed to or can enhance achievements in engineering. Guidelines are provided for elementary, middle school, and high school grade levels. Submission deadline is February 1st.
• Tiffany Flores, Director of Public Relations for Harmony Public Schools South Texas District (tflores@harmonytx.org).  Our newest campus, Harmony School of Science is seeking judges for two First Lego League (FLL) events that will take place on their campus Saturday, February 4th – roughly from 8 am – 2 pm.  Ms. Akgul (ferda.ozturk@harmonytx.org) is overseeing the events on the campus.  If you are interested in being a judge, please contact Ms. Akgul.
• Are you passionate about nurturing the next generations of thinkers and tinkerers, problem-solvers and peace-makers, connection-makers and consensus-builders? Join STEM stakeholders from across Region 13 to network, learn and get inspired to connect our PreK-12 students to real-world learning experiences that foster their creativity, build critical thinking skills, and engage them in collaboration with their peers and the broader community. ESC Region 13 is hosting a two-day event intended to help the Greater Austin STEM Ecosystem learn about the Texas Education Agency’s vision for STEM education and the STEM-related changes to future state education standards, as well as to showcase the great work all of our stakeholders are doing to advance STEM education. Click here to register. This conference is February 3-4 in Austin.

February 5-11

• February 11th is our ASE Educator Conference at Scobee Education Center! Click on the Educator Conference Tab for more details & to register. It’s free & lunch will be provided if you register in advance!
• The DoSeum – Special Exhibition: Very Eric Carle, opening February 11th.

February 12-18

February 19-25

• 2023 SEE Your Future Career Day, Rachel Salinas (KLRN). Host an activity, share a presentation, or serve as a vendor for students and families. February 25th at St. Phillip’s College. Please register here to be a vendor: https://forms.gle/PgGRKyD5pavoKQim8 Reach out with any questions to Rachel at rsalinas@klrn.org
• Mark your calendars for STEM Girl Day at UT Austin! This year’s Girl Day includes “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” and the Girl Day STEM Festival. #UTGirlDay 2023 will be held February 25th. Elementary and middle school students, families, and educators are invited to attend and enjoy free, hands-on STEM activities on The University of Texas at Austin campus.UT Austin’s national award-winning STEM Girl Day, presented by Women in STEM in the Division on Diversity and Community Engagement gives K-8 students a chance to explore STEM through grade-appropriate, hands-on activities hosted by scientists, engineers, astronomers, mathematicians and other STEM enthusiasts from student organizations, research centers, corporate partners and community organizations. All genders are welcome! Visit the STEM Girl Day website today and register your students!
• The Witte Museum’s Engineer It! Day
  Annual Engineering celebration/ family day is on February 25th. Partners needed: bring activities, demonstrations, talks, and more. Register to partner here: https://forms.gle/RmNHQgE8oYLCBnPb7

February 26-28

March is National Women’s History Month!

March 1-4

• March 1st is our ASE Monthly Networking Meeting at Scobee Education Center (with a virtual option too). The registration link is at the top of this events tab.

March 5-11

March 12-18

March 19-25

March 26-31

National Robotics Week is April 1-8 & Earth Day is April 22

April 1-8

• April 1st is the Viva Science SA begins at 9 am at The Witte. Join the fun! Contact Marcus Webster with any questions WebsterM@uthscsa.edu. Viva Science SA is a free and family-friendly event that features a distinguished speaker, interactive science booths with fun activities for all ages, a science fair with posters by local scientists, science-themed artwork, delicious food trucks and much more.Viva Science SA is designed to enlighten, engage, and excite people of all ages in the San Antonio community by displaying science in an entertaining fashion.

  The event is being led by The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UT Health San Antonio and graduate student leaders with the support of all schools at UT Health San Antonio and our partners in the community.

  The goal of this initiative is to foster engagement between our (and your) scientists and the general public while showcasing the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) to San Antonio’s economic and cultural development.

• April 5th is our ASE Monthly Networking Meeting. Location is TBD & virtual attendance is an option. The registration link is at the top of this events page.

April 9-15

• April 10th is the annual BexarFest! This is the only multimedia event of its kind that pairs high school media production students (STEAM) with local nonprofit organizations to create outreach materials for the nonprofit to use in its marketing campaigns. It’s FREE Admission and will be at the Tobin Center. Download & share the BexarFest poster and event guide! Reserve your tickets here and email admin@trlproductions.org with your questions.
• Susan Price, TEDX San Antonio, TEDX Youth with UTSA students on April 15th is inviting our ASE to get involved. The theme is climate action. TEDxYouth@SanAntonio presents Earth, Too Hot to Handle: A Climate Action Event. Info & Registration: https://tedxsa.org/youthWe’re actively inviting the community to:
  • Attend: Registration is open, and free. Both in-person at UTSA downtown Buena Vista Theatre and online via livestream
  • Speak: Middle school and up (through adults) invited to propose a climate-related talk OR performance (poem, artwork, dance, music)
  • Sponsor – We’ll have an Idea Lab with interactive experiences/stations, nonprofit and community partners welcome, in-kind donations, let’s talk!
  • Volunteer – to learn how to produce a community event. Youth middle-school and up, or adults who work with and support them.

  For more info reach out directly to susanp@tedxsanantonio.com (210) 872-0445

April 16-22

• April 21-22 is the annual Alamo City Electrathon (ACE) Race at the Freeman Expo Hall A and Lot 9. Teams will go through a series of an electrical, mechanical, driver, and dynamic inspections on Friday, April 21, before race day on April 22. On race day, teams will participate in two one-hour races, and the team with the most laps combined from the two races wins. Go the the event page on the South Texas Business Partnership website or email your questions to info@sotxpartnership.org 

April 23-30

• April 23 is Fiesta de los Ninos from 10 am – 6 pm at the Boeing Center at Tech Port. Visit their website here and sign up to serve as a vendor/lead a booth. 

May is Asian American & Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

May 1-6

• May 3rd is our ASE Monthly Networking Meeting. Location is TBD, but there is a virtual option to attend too. The registration link is at the top of this events tab. 

May 7-13

May 14-20

May 21-27

May 28-31

June is Pride Month & Juneteenth (June 19th)!

June 1-3

• June 7th is our ASE Monthly Networking Meeting. Location is TBD, but there is a virtual option to attend too. The registration link is at the top of this events tab. 

June 4-10

• June 5-9 is St. Mary’s University’s Game Development and Engineering Decision Analytics Camps! Read more & register here Camps are one week long, limited to 18 students per camp, taught by StMU professors, and are for students who are at least in 9th grade in 2022-23 and 14 years old by June 5, 2023. All camps meet Monday – Friday from 9am-4:30pm, with an extra hour on Friday to complete showing projects. Participants can be dropped off between 8-9 am and picked up between 4:30-5:30 pm.

Palo Alto College: 

Registration for our summer programs has started. Multiple options for middle and high school students.

Registration Link: https://www.alamo.edu/pac/experience-pac/campus-life/youth-education/youth-summer-camp/

Middle School Options:

June 5th – 16th: 

• Code the Future: AutoAuto

June 11-17

• June 12-16 is St. Mary’s University’s Spacial Relationships in the Environment & Engineering Concepts Camps! Read more & register here. Camps are one week long, limited to 18 students per camp, taught by StMU professors, and are for students who are at least in 9th grade in 2022-23 and 14 years old by June 5, 2023. All camps meet Monday – Friday from 9am-4:30pm, with an extra hour on Friday to complete showing projects. Participants can be dropped off between 8-9 am and picked up between 4:30-5:30 pm.
• Interested in Using a Toolkit to promote Equity and Inclusion in Computing Learning Experiences? Check out the NCWIT’s AspireIT Toolkit!! https://ncwit.org/resources/aspireit-toolkit/
  Then, Request AspireIT Evaluation Stipend!
  Stipends of $500 are available on a first-come, first-served basis to individuals who fulfill the requirements of the AspireIT evaluation program, which consists of collecting and sharing specific evaluation data for your computing experience(s) or program(s). Please carefully read through the AspireIT Evaluation Stipend Guidelines to help you determine if you are eligible to request a stipend and ensure that you collect all of the evaluation data you need to share with NCWIT. Requests for stipends are currently open and close on June 15, 2023. If you have any questions about the AspireIT Evaluation Stipend process, please contact the team at aspireit@ncwit.org.
  Learn more here

June 18-24

June 25-30

• June 26-30 is St. Mary’s University’s Python Programming & Drones Camps! Read more & register here. Camps are one week long, limited to 18 students per camp, taught by StMU professors, and are for students who are at least in 9th grade in 2022-23 and 14 years old by June 5, 2023. All camps meet Monday – Friday from 9am-4:30pm, with an extra hour on Friday to complete showing projects. Participants can be dropped off between 8-9 am and picked up between 4:30-5:30 pm.

Happy summer, everyone!

July 1-8

July 9-15

• July 12th is our ASE Monthly Networking Meeting. Location is TBD, but there is a virtual option to attend too. The registration link is at the top of this events tab.
• July 10-14 is St. Mary’s University’s Mobile Programming & Cybersecurity and Robotics Camps! Read more & register here. Camps are one week long, limited to 18 students per camp, taught by StMU professors, and are for students who are at least in 9th grade in 2022-23 and 14 years old by June 5, 2023. All camps meet Monday – Friday from 9am-4:30pm, with an extra hour on Friday to complete showing projects. Participants can be dropped off between 8-9 am and picked up between 4:30-5:30 pm.

The free Scobee Girls STEM Summit to be held on Friday July 14, 2023 is fully registered with 100 middle and high school age girls. Looking for a couple of afternoon 45 min. hands-on presenters.  Contact rvarner4@alamo.edu if you are interested.

July 16-22

• July 17-21 is St. Mary’s University’s Raspberry Pi Particle Detector and Java & Web Development Camps! Read more & register here. Camps are one week long, limited to 18 students per camp, taught by StMU professors, and are for students who are at least in 9th grade in 2022-23 and 14 years old by June 5, 2023. All camps meet Monday – Friday from 9am-4:30pm, with an extra hour on Friday to complete showing projects. Participants can be dropped off between 8-9 am and picked up between 4:30-5:30 pm.

July 23-31

July 24-27, 2023 9:00am – 3:00pm at the Scobee Education Center at SAC

The Scobee Teachers Academy is a free fully sponsored four-day professional development workshop for K-8th grade public school classroom teachers at Scobee on July 24-27, 2023.  Academy activities will meet pre-mission teacher training requirements for Challenger and Micronaut missions, provide eclipse activities and content, easily accessible engineering design challenges, and we have verified with NASA that Rick can provide teacher Apollo lunar & meteorite sample disk certification training.  Participating teachers will be certified to borrow the lunar & meteorite disks from NASA and will earn 24 CPE credits at the conclusion of the academy.  

Registration is still available on the Scobee web site and through social media alerts.  The registration flyer was included in the April ASE Folder with a QR Code for the registration link.

https://www.alamo.edu/sac/scobee

https://www.facebook.com/sacscobee/

NISD has provided funding for their teachers to receive a stipend for participation, but you must work through NISD district personnel for these logistics.

August is Back to School & National Aviation Day (Aug. 19th)!

August 1-5

• August 2nd is our ASE Monthly Networking Meeting. Location is TBD, but there is a virtual option to attend too. The registration link is at the top of this events tab. 

August 6-12

August 13-19

• August 19th is National Aviation Day! Use IF/THEN Resources that feature women in fields ranging from NASA Scientists to avaition engineers and astrophysicists. Also explore NASA’s Aerospace-related STEM resources for K-12. 

August 20-26

August 27-31

September is National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15)!

September 1-9

• September 6th is our ASE Monthly Networking Meeting. Location is TBD, but there is a virtual option to attend too. The registration link is at the top of this events tab. 

September 10-16

September 17-23

September 24-30

October is National Disability Awareness, National Arts & Humanities, & National Bullying Prevention Month!

October 1-7

• October 4th is our ASE Monthly Networking Meeting. Location is TBD, but there is a virtual option to attend too. The registration link is at the top of this events tab. 

October 8-14

• October 14th is the annular eclipse. 

October 15-21

October 22-31

November is American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month and National Career Development Month!

November 1-4

• November 1st is our ASE Monthly Networking Meeting. Location is TBD, but there is a virtual option to attend too. The registration link is at the top of this events tab. 

November 5-11

November 12-18

November 19-25

November 26-30

December is Computer Science Education Week and Hour of Code (Dec. 4-10)!

December 1-9

• December 6th is our ASE Monthly Networking Meeting. Location is TBD, but there is a virtual option to attend too. The registration link is at the top of this events tab. 

December 10-16

December 17-23

December 24-31