Sally Ride Science
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National Geographic Documentary Films Unveils Trailer for Award-Winning SALLY Documentary
May 1, 2025
Finalists for 2025 ITA Sally Ride STEM Award Announced
April 29, 2025
SALLY, award-winning documentary from National Geographic, premieres at Sundance Film Festival
December 10, 2024
Finalists announced for 2024 ITA Sally Ride STEM Award
April 30, 2024
Four Finalists Announced for 2023 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Sally Ride STEM Award
May 29, 2023
Intercollegiate Tennis Association announces Sally Ride STEM Award to help scholar-athletes reach for the stars
March 29, 2022
Celebrating 20 Years of Sally Ride Science
March 17, 2021
20 Things You Might Not Know About Sally Ride
March 12, 2021
Sally Ride Science partners with SDUSD to offer free STEM classes for children of military families
January 13, 2021
Young winner of ‘Stop the Spread’ video contest learned art of filmmaking in Sally Ride Science class
October 12, 2020
“Stop the Spread” video contest winner credits skills she learned in SRS Junior Academy class
September 26, 2020
UC San Diego Extension donates Sally Ride Science books to enrich home learning for Chula Vista students
August 31, 2020
Junior Academy Supervisor Christine Morales on how to engage remote learners with innovative online classes
June 29, 2020
Sally Ride Science rolls out inspiring space-education program at ISS research conference
July 29, 2019
At Sally Ride Science Junior Academy, program supervisor Christine Morales focuses on safety, communication – and inspiration
July 18, 2019
Sally Ride Science partnership lets students ‘reach for the stars’ with experiments in space
February 13, 2019
Sally Ride Science mourns passing of cofounder Terry McEntee
January 12, 2019
Dates set for next summer’s Sally Ride Science Junior Academy
August 16, 2018
Sally Ride Science instructor, embarking on Arctic expedition, hopes to bring back discoveries to share with students
August 2, 2018
Mayor helps get out the word about expansion of free STEAM classes in San Diego libraries
July 26, 2018
Sally Ride Science speaker inspires students at LifeSmarts consumer literacy competition
May 8, 2018
Scholarships are available for SD Unified students to attend Sally Ride Science summer academy
April 25, 2018
Sally Ride Science Junior Academy offers summer STEAM adventures
February 14, 2018
Lineup of free Sally Ride Science workshops at local libraries expands with fun new courses
January 8, 2018
Pioneering astronaut Sally Ride among icons honored with 2018 stamps
December 11, 2017
Sally Ride Science cofounder Tam O’Shaughnessy receives humanitarian award for STEM education advocacy
October 23, 2017
SRS cofounder Tam O’Shaughnessy to receive humanitarian award at Billie Jean King & Friends Gala
October 9, 2017
STEAM Series panel sees exciting future for virtual reality in the classroom
September 15, 2017
-“Honoring Sally” on UCTV_ Sally Ride’s partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, talks about Ride’s remarkable life and research ship that honors her legacy
September 5, 2017
Sally Ride Science STEAM Series_ Equity in STEAM Education
April 14, 2017
New Sally Ride Fellowship to Support Women in Physics
March 16, 2017
Google Doodle Honors Pioneering Women, Including Sally Ride, on International Women’s Day
March 8, 2017
Girls Can Register Now for Sally Ride Science Summer STEAM Workshops
February 10, 2017
Dr. Tam O’Shaughnessy Appointed to Advisory Board of Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
January 23, 2017
Fanfare Planned for R_V Sally Ride Before Ship Gets to Work
January 20, 2017
Virtual reality tour aboard SIO’s – R_V Sally Ride
December 30, 2016
Science Friday’s Ira Flatow, NMSI’s Rene McCormick, and Former NASA Astronaut Sandy Magnus among Judges for Sally Ride-Deloitte Award for Teaching Innovation in STEM
September 18, 2016
Sally Ride Science Launches New Professional Development Course_ Teach STEM Using the 5Es
March 25, 2016
Resolution to Erect Statue of Astronaut Sally Ride Receives Unanimous Bipartisan Support in Key Senate Committee
March 24, 2016
Sally Ride Science Launches at UC San Diego
October 21, 2015
Sally Ride_ Curating Her Life
October 6, 2015
Hot Off The Press!
September 10, 2015
Sally Ride Science & Deloitte Award $25,000 in Cash & Resources for STEM Education Innovations
February 27, 2015
Sally Ride EarthKAM Mission Scheduled for January 27-30
January 15, 2015
Sally Ride Belongings to Soar on Maiden Flight of Orion Spacecraft
December 3, 2014
Sally Ride EarthKAM Mission Scheduled for November 4-7
October 26, 2014
Sally Ride Science Festival Aims to Inspire New Generation of Female Scientists in Houston with Support from ExxonMobil, Rice University
October 22, 2014
Sally Ride Science and University of Washington Bothell to Host Science Festival to Ignite Student Interest in STEM
September 25, 2014
Sally Ride Science Academy Brought to You by ExxonMobil Returns to San Diego July 14-18
July 10, 2014
Sally Ride EarthKAM Prepares for Summer 2014 Mission
July 2, 2014
Sally Ride Science CEO and Co-Founder Tam O’Shaughnessy to Present at ASU GSV Education Innovation Summit
April 17, 2014
Sally Ride Science to Present and Exhibit at NSTA National Conference in Boston, April 3-6
March 27, 2014
Sally Ride Science Launches “All-Access” Site Licenses for Teacher Training and Classroom Instruction
February 28, 2014
Sally Ride Science CEO to be Honored at Harvard Business School “50 Years of Women at HBS” Gala
January 27, 2014
Sally Ride Science Announces 2014 Initiatives to Complement Million Women Mentors Program
January 15, 2014
Sally Ride Science Executive Receives Harvard’s 2013 Stocker Award
December 12, 2013
SALLY RIDE NAMED “STANFORD ENGINEERING HERO”
December 4, 2013
Sally Ride Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
November 19, 2013
Sally Ride EarthKAM Takes Flight This Week
November 12, 2013
STEM Central Adds Social Media Tools
November 7, 2013
Sally Ride Online Academy Now Open to All Educators
November 5, 2013
Marietta City Schools Press Release_ MCS EdTech STEM Session
October 8, 2013
STEM Central Goes Live
October 7, 2013
Sally Ride Science CEO to Present at 2013 STEM Council Meeting in Washington D.C.
September 23, 2013
Sally Ride Science and Northrop Grumman Foundation Partner to Ignite Student Interest In STEM
September 17, 2013
Sally Ride Science Teacher in Residence & Former Einstein Fellow to Speak at Triangle Coalition
September 12, 2013
Next Generation Science Standards Unanimously Approved in California; Sally Ride Science CEO Key Presenter at Board Meeting
September 9, 2013
Sally Ride Science Launches Online Professional Development Program to Build Student Interest in STEM Careers
August 14, 2013
VIDEO_ Celebrating Sally
July 23, 2013
Forbes on SALLY documentary_ Why Sally Ride’s Legacy Still Challenges the Culture Of STEM
June 24, 2025
Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply craft S.S. Sally Ride departs International Space Station for planned destructive re-entry
April 27, 2023
The new Sally Ride quarter has a lot of symbolism
March 21, 2022
Sally Ride coin is next in American Women Quarters program
March 11, 2022
NPR Short Wave podcast_ Tam O’Shaughnessy’s 27-year partnership with America’s first woman in space
June 24, 2021
The San Diego Union-Tribune – “Sally Ride_ Astronaut who reached for the stars, not stardom”
May 17, 2020
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum seeks volunteers to help transcribe Sally Ride’s archival papers
April 23, 2020
WATCH_ NBC 7 San Diego previews summer STEAM workshops from Sally Ride Science Junior Academy
May 16, 2019
WATCH_ Sally Ride Science instructor visits FOX 5 News to preview summer course where students run an experiment in space
April 22, 2019
CBS News 8 features Sally Ride Science Junior Academy as this week’s Innovate 8 STEAM Success School
August 13, 2018
WATCH_ Congressman Scott Peters welcomes students to Sally Ride Science summer academy
June 28, 2018
WATCH_ Opening Remarks for Women in Leadership event marking release of Sally Ride stamp
June 1, 2018
Instructor Sharon Jones visits News 8 to preview free “Science of Harry Potter” STEAM workshops
February 9, 2018
NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir Orbits Back to Scripps for Campus Visit
November 15, 2017
Women Rising_ Women scientists at UC San Diego have overtaken men as leaders of the campus’s biggest research grants
November 9, 2017
Lego’s ‘Women of NASA’ set blasts off toy shelves
November 8, 2017
A new LEGO set honors the women of NASA—and it looks pretty awesome
October 18, 2017
VIDEO_ ‘It’s Slimy, Techie and Downright Brainy’_ KGTV 10 News Visits Our Junior Academy
June 27, 2017
NASA’s women space pioneers to star in new Lego set
March 1, 2017
50 Voices of the Future_ Tam O’Shaughnessy on STEM education
January 23, 2017
The Talk I was Going to Give . . .
January 20, 2017
Obama hails Sally Ride, other pioneers in State of the Union address
January 12, 2016
Sally Ride Science Becomes Part Of UC San Diego
October 25, 2015
Sen. Lara Proposal Would Make History by Placing Statue of American Physicist and Astronaut Dr. Sally Ride in National Statuary Hall
February 4, 2015
Navy to Christen Research Vessel Sally Ride
August 8, 2014
Sally Ride Leans In
June 5, 2014
Sally Ride Bio to Be Released June 4_ Pre-Order Now
May 28, 2014
The Commencement Address Sally Ride Never Gave
May 22, 2014
Taking time out to thank our teachers
May 7, 2014
Sally Ride Science to Deliver Keynote Address at Smartforce Student Summit at IMTS 2014
February 27, 2014
The Private Life and Natural Feminism of Sally Ride
February 4, 2014
Million Women Mentors Launches National Movement…
January 18, 2014
Sally Ride Science Featured in SEEN Magazine
January 17, 2014
Stanford School Of Engineering Names New Engineering Heroes
December 3, 2013
President Obama Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sally Ride
November 19, 2013