Rita Karl served as a technology, media, and gifted and talented teacher in North Bennington, Vermont for 11 years before specializing in education and public outreach for NASA. In 1996, she managed and designed the NASA Discovery Museum at Moody Gardens in Galveston. In 1998 she joined the staff of the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) coordinating student and teacher workshops, conducting outreach activities in museums and planetariums, developing educational web pages, and writing space science curriculum for print and CD-ROMs. LPI serves as a broker/facilitator for NASA's Office of Space Science educational program and is managed by the Universities Space Research Association. Her current assignment for USRA is as the Education and Curriculum Manager for the Texas Aerospace Scholars Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Her duties include developing and implementing on-line distance education curriculum for high school juniors in space science and exploration, developing and managing the on-site portion of the program, and coordinating all speakers, tours, field trips, counselor, mentor and student participation for the program.