NCESSE has received a few questions regarding where to find the all-important proposal review criteria used by both the Step 1 Review Board (established by your community) and the Step 2 Review Board (established by NCESSE). For information on this process, read The Flight Experiment Design Competition page.
As is the case for proposals submitted by professional researchers, to e.g. NASA or NSF, the review criteria is vitally important. Proposers (in this case SSEP Student Teams and their Teacher Facilitators) need to know—as their proposed experiment takes shape—what needs to be in their proposal and how it will be judged by the reviewers. Since SSEP proposals are a Student Directed Effort, the review criteria, which are provided in detail, are found in the STS-135 Flight Experiment Proposal Guide: Background for Student Proposers document in the Document Library. It is also important to point out that The Flight Experiment Proposal Guide (also in the Document Library), which provides directions for writing your proposal, is written to reflect the review criteria.
So …. if you’ve not read them already, all Student Teams and their Teacher Facilitators are urged to read the three documents in the section of the Document Library titled: “d. Flight Experiment Proposal Guide, and Related Background Documents for Teachers and for Student Proposers”
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