Brian Housand, Ph.D. brianhousand.com @brianhousand The youth of today will likely have the opportunity to travel far past the reaches of Earth’s gravity to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, but getting there will not be easy. Instead, it will take individuals with a pioneer spirit fueled by imagination, the ability to collaborate with others, and the willingness to stay focused on solving seemingly impossible tasks over long periods of time. “Dare Mighty Things” takes you behind the scenes at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the landing of InSight on the surface of Mars to learn from NASA scientists and engineers the behaviors and characteristics that made it possible and ways that we can develop these skills within ourselves and our gifted children. The future is now!

1. Dare
Mighty Things
Dr. Brian Housand
InSight Into What It Takes To Get To Mars From ThE
Scientists and Engineers That Took Us There

2. @brianhousand@gmail.com
@brianhousand.com
@brianhousand

3. SLIDES AVAILABLE AFTER THE PRESENTATION

4. UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON
WATSON COLLEGE of EDUCATION
AIG

5. FIND
YOUR

6. IMPOSSIBLE
BUT THAT’S

7. “It always seems
IMPOSSIBLE
– Nelson Mandela
until it’s done.”

8. What
if?

9. “Why, sometimes
I've believed as
many as six
impossible
things before
breakfast.”

10. “In order to attain
the impossible,
one must attempt
the absurd.”
Miguel de Cervantes

11. It’s kind of fun
to do the
impossible.
It’s kind of fun
to do the
impossible.
!

14. 1977

16. ISPACE

17. nasa.gov/connect/social

18. @brianhousand
#NASASocial
11.26.2018

24. mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather

25. Jim Bridenstine
NASA Administrator
Jim Bridenstine
NASA Administrator

26. SHARE
YOUR
STORY

27. What does it
take to get to
MARS?

28. Task
Commitment

29. Bruce BanerdtInsight Principal Investigator
Bruce BanerdtInsight Principal Investigator

30. Success
what people think
it looks like
Demetri Martin
This Is A Book

31. Success
what it really
looks like
Success
what people think
it looks like
Demetri Martin
This Is A Book

32. Years
Months
Minutes7

33. ABOVE
AVERAGE
ABILITY
CREATIVITY
TASK
COMMITMENT
(RENZULLI, 1978)

34. SMART ≠ +

36. “If you end your training now —
if you choose
the quick and easy path
as Vader did —
you will become an agent of evil.”

38. IQ = Curiosity + Effort
(von Stumm, Hell, and Camorro-Premuzic, 2011)

39. I WANT
IT NOW!
I WANT
IT NOW!

41. SMART ≠ +

42. ABOVE
AVERAGE
ABILITY
CREATIVITY
TASK
COMMITMENT
(RENZULLI, 1978)

43. Fluency
Originality
Elaboration
Abstractness of Titles
Resistance to Premature Closure
TTCTTORRANCE TEST
OF CREATIVE
THINKING

44. CELEBRATE
EFFORT

46. Creative people discover and realize
their visions over time and through
dedicated, protracted struggle.
Creative people discover and realize
their visions over time and through
dedicated, protracted struggle.

47. Keep doing what
you’re doing.
It will work out
eventually.
Bruce BanerdtInsight Principal Investigator
Bruce BanerdtInsight Principal Investigator

48. Now the
REAL
WORK
begins

49. RISK
Taking

50. We never take
Mars for granted.
Mars is hard.
tHOMAS ZURBUCHENASSOC. ADMIN., NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE
tHOMAS ZURBUCHENASSOC. ADMIN., NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE

51. Far better is it to
DARE
MIGHTY THINGS
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure,
than to rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much,
because they live in a gray twilight
that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

52. YOUR
COMFORT
ZONE

53. Aline Zimmer
InSight EDL Systems Engineer
Aline Zimmer
InSight EDL Systems Engineer

54. BIG
RISKSand small risks.

55. Brian clement
Marco engineer
Brian clement
Marco engineer

60. EXPERIENCE
NEW THINGS

62. WHAT WE DON'T KNOW IS MUCH MORE THAN
WHAT WE KNOW.

63. Meaningful
Collaboration

64. Philippe Laudet
SEIS Project Manager, CNES
Philippe Laudet
SEIS Project Manager, CNES

65. It is not the strongest that survives,
Nor the most intelligent….
It is the one that is most
ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE.
Those that have learned to
COLLABORATE
and IMPROVISE will prevail.

66. It is not the strongest that survives,
Nor the most intelligent….
It is the one that is most
ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE.
Those that have learned to
COLLABORATE
and IMPROVISE will prevail.

67. How NOT to form groups.
1. Write each student’s name on an index card.
2. Deal the cards into 4 equal piles according to
student ability (High, Medium High, Medium
Low, and Low)
3. Choose one card from each pile.

68. When I die, I want
the people I did
group projects with
to lower me into
my grave so they
can let me down
one last time.

69. When I die, I want
the people I did
group projects with
to lower me into
my grave so they
can let me down
one last time.

70. When I die, I want
the people I did
group projects with
to lower me into
my grave so they
can let me down
one last time.

71. When I die, I want
the people I did
group projects with
to lower me into
my grave so they
can let me down
one last time.

72. When I die, I want
the people I did
group projects with
to lower me into
my grave so they
can let me down
one last time.

73. COLLABORATION
VS. COOPERATION

74. PLAY CO-OP
GAMES

83. RACING AGAINST TIME
AND
YOU CAN NOT TALK,
POINT, OR GESTURE!

84. YOU CAN ONLY GAZE INTENTLY AT EACH OTHER!
OR PLACE THE BIG RED PAWN IN FRONT OF ANOTHER PLAYER.

85. MOVE ONTO A RED TIMER SPACE
AND FLIP THE TIMER TO TALK!
TIME KEEPS RUNNING
AND YOU CAN NOT
MOVE UNTIL YOU
STOP TALKING!

86. INTERDEPENDENCE
E. Paul Torrance

87. Practice
Deliberate

88. FARAH ALIBAYINSIGHT PAYLOAD SYSTEMS ENGINEER
FARAH ALIBAYINSIGHT PAYLOAD SYSTEMS ENGINEER

91. FARAH ALIBAYINSIGHT PAYLOAD SYSTEMS ENGINEER
FARAH ALIBAYINSIGHT PAYLOAD SYSTEMS ENGINEER
We want
it to be
SUPER
boring!

94. DELIBERATE PRACTICE
mindless practice

95. LUCKY
PEANUTS

96. Chance
favours
only
the
prepared
mind. - Louis Pasteur

97. PRACTICE
&DEVELOP

98. Lt. Gen. Larry D. James
Deputy Director NASA/JPL
Be good at what
you do. There are a
LOT of others who
want to do this.
Lt. Gen. Larry D. James
Deputy Director NASA/JPL

99. TASK COMMITMENT
Risk Taking
Collaboration
DELIBERATE Practice

100. July 20, 1969

102. WHat’s
Next?

103. SEEK PAST LIFE
COLLECT ROCK SAMPLES
PREPARE FOR HUMANS

105. mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020

107. nasa.gov/specials/moon2mars

108. The greater danger for most of us
lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short;
but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

109. We want the things in science
fiction novels and movies not
to be science fiction forever,

110. We want the things in science
fiction novels and movies not
to be science fiction forever,
we want them to be real one
day.
Elon Musk

111. tHOMAS ZURBUCHENASSOC. ADMIN., NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE
tHOMAS ZURBUCHENASSOC. ADMIN., NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE

112. @annamcnaughty

113. Dare
Mighty Things
brianhousand.com/insight

114. brianhousand@gmail.com
brianhousand.com/insight
@brianhousand
#DareMightyThings