Tuscaloosa student wins essay contest to name Mars rover.

To submit essays for a contest outside of the United States, please contact the national coordinator of that country. If you are under 18, have a teacher submit the essay for you. If students from different grades work together, the essay will be judged in the grade category of the oldest student on the team.

The Grand Prize for the 2013 Space Settlement Contest went to Robert G., Jonathan S., Reagan F., Zared S., Jackie L., Gabriel T., under the instruction of Jeffrey R. of Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida for creating Maui. First Prize Grade 12 First Prize.

NHHPC Middle School Asteroid Contest - 2013 October 9, 2012 NASA, Clemson University, Orion's Quest, Square One Education Network, and other members of the NASA Human Health and Performance Center collaborated to develop and conduct an educational contest for students in the 6th through 8th grades, approximately between the ages of 11 and 14.

The Scientist for a Day Essay Contest can be used as a classroom writing assignment in either English or Science classes. The assignment involves both inquiry-based learning and problem-based learning.. Watch videos by young NASA scientists and engineers, and see that scientists and engineers come from diverse backgrounds.

Earthzine October 18, 2013 Essay Contest 2013, Essays, Original, Sections, Technology Our awareness of global climate change as an existential crisis for human civilization is a result of and highly dependent on certain developments in information technology.

The teenagers suggestion was taken from NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contestBound to make history as the first aircraft to attempt powered flight on another planet, NASA’s new Mars helicopter now has a name that lives up to the daunting task: Ingenuity.And it’s all thanks to 17-year-od Vaneeza Rupani.Rupani, a high school junior from Northport, Alabama, earned the honor of.

Essay Contest “How We Process Earth Materials“ (Grades 6-9) We do not always think about the many ways people find, access, transport, refine, combine, distribute, use, discard, or reuse and recycle Earth materials. As individuals and as a society, we make deliberate choices about such processes. How can we develop practices and policies.

Gemini 8 launched on 16 March 1966, piloted by ormer naval aviator Neil A. Armstrong. Gemini 8 completed seven orbits in 10 hours and 41 minutes at an altitude of 161.3 nautical miles. This was the first mission to link two spacecraft together in Earth orbit. After 30 minutes, the crew was force to undock with the Agena vehicle due to problems with the Gemini spacecraft control systems.

Curiosity is a car-sized rover designed to explore the crater Gale on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL). Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, at 15:02 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17 UTC. The Bradbury Landing site was less than 2.4 km (1.5 mi) from the center of the rover's touchdown target after.

Eight days after departing this planet for a manned mission to the moon on 18 May 1969, the command module of Apollo 10 reentered Earth’s atmosphere at 32 times the speed of sound. Thousands of miles but only minutes away, the crew of Princeton (CV-37) and others on board were waiting on the flight deck for the spacecraft to appear.(1) When they caught sight of the parachutes and Apollo.

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With a Letters about Literature winner, 7 Letters semi-finalists, and a NASA essay writing contest winner the recognition has put these middle school students in the spotlight. Colleen Campbell, 8th grader at St. Cecilia Catholic School, is one such middle schooler. In the past two years Colleen has been awarded both a 3rd place finish for her.