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Who Am I?
Hi Everyone, my name is Jason Lord and I created this project as
a way to honor my sister's efforts to bring art to her community. As a
long time Hollywood professional this allows me to contribute my time
& skills to bring attention to an important science mission that
is not well known, and also produce a story of an arts teacher that
steps into advanced astrophysics and how that shows up in a
middle-school classroom.
What's this about?
Earlier in 2015 my sister Stacy Lord was selected to participate in
the NASA SOFIA mission as an Airborn Astronomy Ambassador which is
part of an education outreach program to bring astronomy science to
schools throughout the country. SOFIA stands for
Stratospheric Observatory
For Infrared
Astronomy and is housed aboard a converted 747
aircraft carrying a 2.5 meter diameter telescope that is dedicated to
astronomical research at altitudes of 45,000 feet. This gets the
infrared instruments up high enough above enough atmospheric
distortion in order to survey the earth and sky in the infared
spectrum.
Who is Stacy?
Stacy is a visual arts teacher at Worcester East Middle School in
Massachusetts and works with kids that are from lower income areas of
the city. Over the years she has received awards and recognition for
her work with the community, creating summer art programs and also
creating one of largest art fairs in Massachusetts (Start On The
Street) which attracts around 20,000 people to the streets of
Worcester each fall.
Why are you doing this?
First reason: She's my sister! What better way to honor the work she does, right? I also get to apply my skills to document the whole experience.
What's your plan?
My plan to film Stacy on her misson flights was a success. In Nov
2015 we got to the Stratosphere. NASA accepted my proposal to create
an educational video that tells the story of how a creative arts
teacher steps into the world of astronomy science for the first time
and how to bring that back into the classroom and implement her
experience into a visual arts curriculum for young students. The
filming is complete, now the process of post production begins.
NASA Accepted:
NASA accepted my proposal to film Stacy during the SOFIA flights
which happened in late 2015. She flew along with other education
ambassadors from around the country to meet, observe and learn from
the science teams that conduct research on NASA's stratospheric
flights over the northern American continent. The science teams travel
in from around the world and have to go through a rigorous application
process to have time allotted on the SOFIA aircraft for their research projects.
Money...
Taking on a documentary project incurs a lot of costs. I have buy
some equipment like harddrives, audio gear, along with all the
incidentals that go along with any video project.
As it stands right now I’m looking at $5000 to bring the project
to a final edit in 2016. That’s not a lot of time to do a documentary
like this so it's all going to good use!
I hope you can contribute to my project because you’ll be paying
it forward to the students at the Worcester East Middle School and the
science teams in the SOFIA program.
Thanks for supporting my project!
- Jason Lord
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