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Students in grades 5-8 throughout the United States are invited to participate in Spaced Out Sports, a national design challenge that applies Newton’s Laws of Motion by designing a game for the International Space Station astronauts to play in space. The goal is for students to learn the “science behind the game” on Earth and in microgravity.
Students will submit game demonstrations via a playbook and video. Submissions will be accepted from schools, home school groups, after-school or enrichment programs. Awards include: 1st Place -- NASA school-wide or program-wide celebration (U.S. teams only); Top 3 Teams -- games played on the space station and recorded for a future broadcast; All Contributing Schools and Programs -- opportunity to participate in a Digital Learning Network webcast with astronauts on the space station.
Spaced Out Sports student and educator resources include posters, bookmarks, curriculum guides, career videos and Digital Learning Network Modules. All include NASA astronauts, engineers and celebrity sports figures engaging students in relevant space-sports connections by explaining and demonstrating the “science behind their work and/or game.” Featured are: former astronaut and NASA Associate Administrator for Education Leland Melvin and astronaut Nicole Stott; Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin; NASCAR’s Juan Pablo Montoya; basketball’s Temeka Johnson; football/Super Bowl champions New Orleans Saints; and hockey’s Ryan O’Reilly and the Colorado Avalanche.
Spaced Out Sports is managed by NASA’s Stennis Space Center Education through the Teaching From Space Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston.
For more information and to register for the challenge beginning January 11, 2012, visit: http://education.ssc.nasa.gov/spacedoutsports .
If you have questions about Spaced Out Sports, please e-mail inquiries to: SpacedOutSports@nasa.gov
Last year’s Spaced Out Sports winning games were recently played and videoed by the ISS Astronaut Commander, Dan Burbank, on-board station! The video should be posted soon on the Spaced Out Sports website: http://education.ssc.nasa.gov/spacedoutsports.asp .
STEM is geared toward increasing students' interest and participation in STEM education. eCYBERMISSION is open to students in grades 6-9 and offers a fun and educational competition that challenges students to think about real-world applications of STEM by working in teams to identify a problem in their community and applying the scientific method to find a solution.
Learn more at http://www.ecybermission.com.
Sign up now for the Real World Design Challenge. It is an annual aviation design competition for teams of 3-7 high school students. The Challenge is FREE for students and teachers. And each teacher that signs up a team will receive $1 million in professional engineering software as well as access to mentors from industry, government, and academia.
The Real World Design Challenge will create many opportunities for your students. Every state champion team receives an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, DC. Students have earned paid internships through their participation. And last year’s National Champions got to present their work to President Obama at the White House.
Sign up today and take advantage of our summer teacher training. You can sign up as many teams as you want, and if you are not sure which students will participate, don’t worry you can change the team members between now and the beginning of the competition.
Just go to www.realworlddesignchallenge.org and click the link to register a team.