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Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP)

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) recently launched the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP), a national STEM education initiative that provides middle and high school classes across a school district (or even a single school) the ability to propose experiments to fly in low Earth orbit, and to celebrate that accomplishment with their local community and with national and global audiences. The SSEP supports a local experiment design competition in each participating school district, together with extensive local programming that embraces a community-wide engagement model for STEM education. Phase 1 of the program is a unique and historic opportunity for students to propose an experiment to fly aboard STS-134, the final scheduled flight of the Space Shuttle. Selected student experiments would fly for 10 days aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. Launch is tentatively scheduled for November 2010, but a launch slip to mid-January is expected, enabling this student spaceflight experiments opportunity. TO PROVIDE MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SSEP BY A SCHOOL DISTRICT - OR EVEN AN INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL - WE HAVE DEVELOPED 3 POSSIBLE LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION: Option 1: A community-wide engagement initiative in STEM education, with two components: - a Flight Experiment Design Competition across your community, with students vying for at least one experiment slot reserved for you aboard STS-134. - a Community Program meant to engage your students, their teachers, and their families, and which includes a National Team of scientists and engineers spending a week in your community to talk to 2,000 - 4,000 of your students - one classroom at a time, and providing presentations to families and the public Option 2: Option 1 above, but without the programming delivered by the National Team of scientists and engineers Option 3: the ability for an individual school to reserve a single experiment slot on STS-134, but without the community-wide experiment design competition and community-wide programming. Read more on http://bit.ly/cksFzR

Type: Materials / Supplies

Tags: aerospace, nasa, space

Requested Date: 6/16/2010

Due Date: 1/1/2011

School District: Anywhere in Minnesota

Number of Students: 100000

Zip Code: 55414