Credits

Cogs: Connecting a Generation to Science

Project Director, Laura Blasi, Ph.D., Saint Leo University,
Assessment and Institutional Research (A&IR), Evaluation Specialist

2007 Website Implementation
David Kent Norman

Infinity: Glimpse, Innovation Orbit, Mercury 13

Project Co-Director: Laura Blasi, Ph.D., Saint Leo University,
Assessment and Institutional Research (A&IR), Evaluation Specialist

Project Co-Director: Dan Britt, Ph.D.,
The University of Central Florida,
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Content Expert: Dan Britt, Ph.D.
Concept Development and Production: Laura Blasi, Ph.D.

Design and Programming:
Infinity: Glimpse and Innovation Orbit Jeremiah Bell

Design and Programming:
Mercury13 Brandon Bombassei

Digital Science Notepad (DSN)

Project Director: Laura Blasi, Ph.D.

Design and Programming:
The Digital Science Notepad (DSN) Melissa Kear

Project Staff and Support

Teacher Outreach Specialist:
Samantha S. Fischer, Winter High School

Research and Outreach Specialist:
Danielle Klein

Research Assistants:
Jen Grill Julia Berlin

Saint Leo University Video Production:
Roger Hines and John Mouw

Cogs 2006: Design and Development
Michael Carney, Web Designer
Travis Janzen, Graphic Designer

Cogs 2005: Pilot Website Designer and Programmer
Yedong Tao, The College of Education,
The University of Central Florida

Teacher Experts Summer 2005:
Brevard County High School Science Teacher, Helen Glover
Orange County High School Science Teacher, Shari Hennigan Foster
Biology teachers and students from Colonial High School, Oakridge High
School, and University High School in the Orange County Public Schools
district in Orlando, Florida contributed to the development of Cogs.

Teacher Experts Summer 2006:
Janet Bisogno, Orange County High School Science Teacher
Sue Fen S. Hwang, Orange County High School Science Teacher

Saint Leo University
Steve Burrell, Steve Carroll, and colleagues, Technology
Dr. Jeffrey Anderson and Dr. Maribeth Durst

University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Education
Tim David and Larry Jaffe, Technology Francis Cortright, Budgets and Finance Dr. Conrad Katzenmeyer, Dr. Sandra Robinson, and Dr. Rex Culp

Colleagues at the Beckman Institute,
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

Virtual Lab Principal Investigators:
Dr. Glenn Fried, Dr. Ben Grosser

Virtual Lab Software Development Interface:
Kashif Manzoor, Tom Gaskin, Ben Grosser

Virtual Lab Microscope Training Materials:
Janet Sinn-Hanlon, Chas Conway
Scott Robinson, Darren Stevenson

NASA Images and Content

Bert Ulrich
Public Services Division
NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546

With special thanks for assistance…

Sponsors

Grant funding for Infinity provided by
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STSCI) within the Science Mission Directorate (SMD)'s Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) Program. STSCI officer Thomas Batta

And to the BellSouth Foundation for funding the pilot research study in low-income classrooms, which contributed to the final design of NASA's Virtual Lab and the subsequent development of these tools to support integration into science classrooms.

With appreciation for the continued support from NASA Colleagues, Kennedy Space Center (KSC):

Berta Alfonso, NASA KSC University Affairs Officer
Theresa M. Schroeder, NASA KSC Project Director: Virtual Lab

Cogs and DSN as well as the team of creative people that brought the work of NASA scientists to life on screen were made possible by KSC.