SSEP Community Profiles and Local Partners

A Community that has taken part in one SSEP Flight Opportunity to date: Yellow
A Community that has taken part in more than one SSEP Flight Opportunity to date: Green
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Note: One Mission 3 to ISS Community, the Teachers in Space nationally distributed community program, is not shown on the map.

The SSEP Community Network is comprised of the 242 communities that have taken part in the 20 SSEP flight opportunities to date. The communities are shown on the map above. To date, 76 communities have now participated in at least 2 – and as many as 11 – flight opportunities, reflecting the sustainable nature of the program. This reflects a total of 404 SSEP community programs conducted to date across the 242 communities, as shown in the table below.

	Mission	Number of Participating Communities	Number of Schools	Number of Local Partners
1	SSEP on STS-134	16	53	54
2	SSEP on STS-135	11	48	55
3	Mission 1 to ISS	12	92	60
4	Mission 2 to ISS	11	72	72
5	Mission 3 to ISS	17	163	123
6	Mission 4 to ISS	11	112	74
7	Mission 5 to ISS	15	96	103
8	Mission 6 to ISS	18	142	116
9	Mission 7 to ISS	24	179	76
10	Mission 8 to ISS	14	93	46
11	Mission 9 to ISS	21	106	60
12	Mission 10 to ISS	11	45	45
13	Mission 11 to ISS	21	190	70
14	Mission 12 to ISS	31	257	106
15	Mission 13 to ISS	38	544	110
16	Mission 14 to ISS	32	304	99
17	Mission 15 to ISS	5	43	7
18	Mission 16 to ISS	22	287	99
19	Mission 17 to ISS	37	336	140
20	Mission 18 to ISS	37	318	94
	Totals	367	3,480	1,609

Each community has its own unique approach to their SSEP community experience. In each community, the leadership defines how SSEP is to address their strategic goals in STEM education, the number of schools and grade levels participating, and the number of students being given the opportunity to not only participate in the Flight Experiment Design Competition (see the Selected Flight Experiments), but also the larger SSEP Community Engagement Program, which includes, e.g., the Mission Patch Design Competition.

In honor of all the partner institutions that enable SSEP at the community level—over 1,600 (through Mission 18): school districts, private schools, NASA Space Grant lead institutions and other universities, businesses, foundations, private philanthropists, and local research institutions providing science advisors—we present the following Community Profiles and Local Partners pages. A heartfelt thank you and congratulations to all the institutions and individuals that are introducing the frontiers of human exploration—and real science—to grade 5-16 students across America.

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Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 18 to ISS page

Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 17 to ISS page

Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 16 to ISS page

Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 15 to ISS page

Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 14 to ISS page

Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 13 to ISS page

Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 12 to ISS page

Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 11 to ISS page

Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 10 to ISS page

Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 9 to ISS page

Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 8 to ISS page