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The art students and the technology students at the high school have started working on an emblem to represent our community and our participation in the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program.  NanoRacks, LLC, will try to fly on STS-134 a paper … Continue reading →

The local review team which included consulting engineers as well as representatives from GLOBALFOUNDRIES and the Children’s Museum of Science and Technology has selected the three finalists from the proposals.  The finalists include Milton Terrace South Elementary School 5th grade students Dana Betti, … Continue reading →

 All of the proposals have gone through an initial screening process that looked at completeness, appropriateness of materials, and which was the best proposal on similar topics.  The top 26 proposals identified included a variety of grade level proposals as well as … Continue reading →

There was a flurry of last minute changes going on to a number of proposals today.  All of the proposals had to be submitted by noon today to be considered for submittal to the Local Review Team.  We received seventy … Continue reading →

A number of students have started submitting draft proposals using our district lab report template.  They requested that their proposals go through an initial review to see if they should complete the information on the national form.  There is a … Continue reading →

The fifth grade students at Milton Terrace South were offered the opportunity to participate in SSEP through an after-school enrichment program that began today.  Ten students signed up for the program.  They divided up into teams based on a topic … Continue reading →

All of the students in Malta 5th grade received information about SSEP today.  The topic that came up for many of the students was whether seeds would grow the same way in microgravity as they do on Earth.

Students in the Earth Science, Biology, Principal of Biomedical and Human Body Systems classes are all working on developing experiments for the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program.  The size of the experiment chamber and the limitation on what materials can be … Continue reading →