[Pibe-division] Fw: NASA Opportunities for Middle School and High School Students

Robert Jaquiss rjaquiss at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 27 21:38:18 UTC 2008


Hello List:

     I thought this might be an opportunity for some of our students. It takes skills in math and science to pull this off. Have a blast!

Regards,

Robert Jaquiss

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From: NASA Education 
To: Robert Jaquiss 
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 4:07 PM
Subject: NASA Opportunities for Middle School and High School Students


 

2009 Team America Rocketry Challenge Accepting Applications 

 

Registration is open for the Team America Rocketry Challenge 2009, a national model rocket competition for U.S. students in grades 7 through 12. Thousands of students compete each year in the Team America Rocketry Challenge, the world's largest model rocket contest. Cash prizes are awarded to the top finishers. 

 

Teams of three to ten students design, build and fly a model rocket to carry one raw egg for a precise flight duration of 45 seconds and to an exact altitude of 750 feet. The team whose rocket comes the closest to both, and brings the egg back unbroken, wins. 

 

To be eligible for the national fly-off, teams must fly a qualifying flight observed by an adult member of the National Association of Rocketry. The top-scoring 100 teams in the country will be invited to participate in the final fly-off to be held in May 2009. 

 

Participation is limited to the first 750 teams who register by Dec. 1, 2008. For more information, visit http://www.rocketcontest.org/ . 

 

Questions about this contest should be sent to rocketcontest at aia-aerospace.org. 

 

 

NASA Opportunity for Students in Grades 9-12: INSPIRE 

 

The Interdisciplinary National Science Project Incorporating Research and Education Experience, or INSPIRE, is a multi-tiered project for students and their parents or legal guardians. 

 

Applications from students in grades 9-12 are now being accepted for INSPIRE's online community through Dec. 31, 2008. NASA's mission provides the content for the online community. Resources, activities and educational modules add relevancy to courses being taught in high school. Activities include participation in video teleconferences with NASA scientists, design competitions and learning modules. The online community allows students to interact with other students with similar interests, to ask questions and to share knowledge, thus building a "Community of Practice." The online community will also offer support for parents to help them better champion their students' goals. Once selected for the online community in January 2009, students will then be invited to compete for the unique grade-appropriate summer experiences ranging from a one-day VIP tour and workshops, a two-week on-campus collegiate experience, to paid summer internships. The dates of the summer experiences and the location of the two-week on-campus collegiate experience will be announced in January, and students will be notified of selections in February. 

 

INSPIRE provides grade-appropriate NASA-related resources and experiences to encourage and reinforce students' aspirations to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, education and careers. The project also offers resources and information for parents to help them better champion their students' goals. INSPIRE provides participants a rich online community, as well as opportunities to compete to participate in NASA/STEM Experiences. 

 

For more information about this opportunity, visit http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/programs/INSPIRE_Project.html. 

 

If you have questions about this opportunity, please e-mail your inquiries to INSPIRE Project Manager Steve Chance at steven.h.chance at nasa.gov . 

 


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