First, NASA is giving awards to short film makers about "science" so they can better connect with young kids who "consume 10 hours of media per day." (that's just wrong by itself, but that's another topic). What happened to tough academic awards for kids who actually perform real science and have scientific career potential? Young Ms. Olson received a NASA award for singing and songwriting their propaganda.
Second, NASA employs the extremely corrupt and crooked James Hansen to propagandize Americans about the global warming hoax. It really bugs me they are now using contests and our tax money to further ensnare gullible young American children into the hoax and then get them to proselytize NASA's corrupt message.
Third, her thesis necessarily falls perfectly in line with the NASA viewpoint. She's now on the global warming / climate catastrophe gravy train, just like any other crooked "scientist" in a government lab or university. If you're paid by the government to get the "right" conclusion, that is the only conclusion you will ever reach. She's another young adult lost to the radical leftist views promulgated by our very government.
By the way, her winning entry is titled "Melting Ice Caps," a topic many us know a lot about. (surprise, surprise! just bowl me over with a feather) She'll have a great shot at working on Al Gore's next award winning movie.
Click NASA's Reel Science Communication Contest to learn about the contest and how "NASA is looking for talented High School students to create videos that engage students in Earth Science." All budding Leni Riefenstahls will want to read this page.
See all the things you can do with NASA’s budget if you don’t have to worry about putting things into space?!
Another young skull full of mush it looks like. Too bad these young kids have to learn the wrong ideas from the wrong people.
One of the points made in a presentation about how counterintelligence programs are executed, was to have a contest in which the score in the contest indicates how deeply subscribed to the counterintelligence goals the various contestants are. Only the true believers will win, therefore, everyone wants to out-true-believe everyone else, if the counterintelligence program is to be the most successful. The more Kool-Aid you drink, the better you will do.
If this is what NASA has been reduced to, dismantle it completely and immediately.
Bong