STEM Career Role Models - Sheila Kanani: Planetary Scientist
Part of the series STEM Career Role Models
Planetary scientist Sheila Kanani visits The Hollyfield School in Surbiton to deliver a workshop on comets, as part of a programme to encourage students to enter STEM careers.
Using a variety of common household ingredients and some dry ice, she demonstrates how it's possible to cook up a comet in the classroom. She also explains to students how they can follow in her footsteps and pursue a career in space science.
Sheila talks about her work on the Cassini spacecraft, currently orbiting Saturn, and gives us an insight into what it's like to work at the cutting edge science.
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- Duration: 15:00 minutes
- Published: 02 November 2009
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STEMNET: Who are STEM Ambassadors?
Find out how you can arrange a STEM ambassador to visit your school
Mullard Space Science Laboratory Website
For information about where Sheila works, online educational materials and information about how you can arrange a visit from a working planetary scientist
NASA: Saturn
More information and latest updates on Cassini's whereabouts on the NASA mission website
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