General Info

Since 1990, The Lewis Center for Educational Research has hosted more than 100,000 students, teachers and parents participating in outreach programs, clubs and other educational activities. Among the center's diverse programs is the Academy for Academic Excellence (AAE), a K-12 charter school in which new teaching techniques and strategies are tested and refined in a standards-based educational program; and the Norton Space and Aeronautics Academy (NSAA), currently a K-3 charter school and is a Dual Immersion Program School. Its global programs include the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) project with NASA, and the JPL/Caltech project which offers teachers across the United States access to a 34-meter radio antenna via Internet.