STEM Opportunity for School Districts: Student Spaceflight Experiments Program The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, and NanoRacks announce Mission 7 to the International Space Station. This STEM education opportunity immerses grades 5–14 students across a community in an authentic, high-visibility research experience, in which student teams design and propose real microgravity experiments to fly in low Earth orbit on the International Space Station. Each participating community will be provided a real microgravity research mini-laboratory capable of supporting a single experiment. They will also receive and all launch services to fly it to Space Station in Spring 2015 and return it safely to Earth for student harvesting and analysis. A 9-week experiment design competition in each community, to be held September through November 2014 and engaging typically 300 students, will allow student teams to design and formally propose real experiments that will vie for their community’s reserved mini-lab on Space Station. A formal 2-step proposal review process, mirroring professional review, will determine the community’s flight experiment. Time Critical: All interested communities are asked to inquire by May 30, 2014. For more information, contact Jeff Goldstein, SSEP Program Director; 301-395-0770.
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 21:30:22 +0000
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