[nabs-l] Fw: Moon Work Design Contest Offers NASA Internships to Winners

[Robert Jaquiss]

Hello List:

     I thought this might be of interest.

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Robert Jaquiss, President
Greater Ouachita Chapter
National Federation of the Blind
Email: rjaquiss at earthlink.net
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Subject: Moon Work Design Contest Offers NASA Internships to Winners


> Dec. 4, 2009
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> MOON WORK DESIGN CONTEST OFFERS NASA INTERNSHIPS TO WINNERS
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> WASHINGTON -- Talented engineering students who have ideas on how 
> future explorers might live on the moon could find themselves working 
> at NASA as paid interns. 
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> The 2010 NASA Moon Work engineering design challenge seeks to motivate 
> college students by giving them first-hand experience with the 
> process of developing new technologies. To participate in the 
> contest, students will submit their original design for tools or 
> instruments that can help astronauts live and work on the moon. 
> Top-ranked students will be offered a chance to intern with a team 
> from NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program. 
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> The Exploration Technology Development Program develops new 
> technologies that will enable NASA to conduct future human 
> exploration missions while reducing mission risk and cost. The 
> program is maturing near-term technologies to help enable the first 
> flight of the Orion crew exploration vehicle and developing long-lead 
> technologies needed for possible lunar exploration missions. 
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> Winning Moon Work contestants also will have a chance to attend field 
> tests conducted by the Desert Research and Technology Studies 
> Program, managed by NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The 
> program conducts annual tests of new technologies in landscapes that 
> are close analogs of the moon and other harsh space environments. 
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> Students should submit a notice of intent to enter the contest by Dec. 
> 15. Final entries for the Moon Work challenge are due May 15, 2010. 
> All entries must be from students at U.S. colleges or universities. 
> Although non-citizens may be part of a team, only U.S. citizens may 
> win NASA internships or travel awards. 
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> For complete details and to enter the contest, visit: 
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> http://moonwork.larc.nasa.gov 
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> Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va., manages the 
> student contest for NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate 
> and NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. 
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> Through this and NASA's other college and university programs, the 
> agency is developing student skills in science, technology, 
> engineering and mathematics -- disciplines critical to achieving the 
> agency's space exploration missions. 
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> For more information about NASA's education programs, visit: 
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> http://www.nasa.gov/education 
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