Sac High Teacher Domina Stamas Selected for a NASA Training Program

Listen to the iHeartMedia interview with St. HOPE’s Sacramento Charter High School's Domina Stamas.

Sac High teacher Domina Stamas, is one of only 29 teachers from across the country selected for NASA's “Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors” Training Program. She will fly with the SOFIA Telescope and receive training to bring a new space science curriculum to her 11th grade students.

Students at St. HOPE’s Sacramento Charter High School are reaching for the stars, and will soon get some extra special teaching on the topic designed by NASA and the SETI Institute. Domina Stamas, who teaches Physics and Earth and Space Science for 11th graders at Sac High, has been selected for an intensive highly competitive professional development opportunity that immerses teachers into astronomy-based lessons around the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Ms. Stamas will participate in a series of professional development opportunities that will help bring new curriculum and coursework back to her 11thgrade classroom in the Fall.