Space Center Houston
Maria Nickel is a dedicated STEM educational specialist currently serving at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada since January 2022. With extensive experience in K-12 STEM education, Maria has been involved with the Interlake School Division since September 2000, taking on multiple roles including STEM 7&8 specialist and director of the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program, where 450 students developed experiments for competition related to the International Space Station. Additionally, Maria has acted as an International Ambassador for the Space Foundation, served as a mentor for the IRIS Cube Satellite Mission, and collaborated with Let's Talk Science to promote STEM education across Canada. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor of Physical Education and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Manitoba and Brandon University. Further, Maria was a Canadian Space Agency astronaut recruitment candidate in 2016 and has prior experience with the Atlanta Braves as a guest trainer in athletic therapy.
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Space Center Houston
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The Manned Space Flight Education Foundation Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational foundation with an extensive science education program and a space museum. It is one of Houston’s top attractions, the area’s No. 1 attraction for international visitors, the Official Visitor Center of NASA Johnson Space Center and the first Smithsonian Affiliate in the greater Houston area. Space Center Houston has something for all ages. You can touch a Moon rock, see real spacecraft and go behind the scenes at NASA. Visitors come from all over the world to view the largest collection of space artifacts in the Southwestern United States. Since opening in 1992, Space Center Houston has welcomed more than 22 million visitors and currently hosts 1 million visitors annually in its 250,000-square-foot educational complex. The center earned a 2016 Top Workplaces Award by The Houston Chronicle and generates annually a $118.7 million economic impact, 1,710 jobs and $53.7 million in personal income in greater Houston, according to a 2018 economic study by Quanticon, LLC researchers Stephen Cotton, PhD, and Jason Murasko. Admission is one convenient price and includes access to all exhibits. Become a member today and receive advance notice on exhibitions, invitations to special events, free parking and much more. For more information, visit spacecenter.org.