The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program would not be possible without the passion and unwavering dedication to our children of all the teachers and administrators in the SSEP communities, the Local Partner Organizations that embrace the spirit of community and the importance of education, and the individuals that step to the plate as quiet heroes serving as e.g., research advisors to the student teams, and on the community’s Step 1 Review Board. The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education can provide the programmatic framework, but SSEP’s ability to inspire and engage the next generation of scientists and engineers is firmly in the hands of all the educators, organizations, and individuals on the ground.
It is therefore with great pride that the Center, and its international arm, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, make available Certificates of Accomplishment for each of these groups. It is a special thank you to everyone that made SSEP possible for the thousands of students—we as a team—are inspiring to reach for the stars.
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Certificate of Accomplishment for Teachers and Administrators
Teaching … the eternal bond between young and old that is at its heart – joy.
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Certificate of Accomplishment for Local Partner Organizations
It Takes a Community to Educate a Child
and a Network of Communities to Reach a Generation
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Certificate of Accomplishment for Individuals
When Quiet Heroes Step to the Plate
Mountains Move
About the Certificates
The certificates are provided to the Community Program Director as a PDF file. They are ready to be printed in color by the community, and given to teachers and administrators, local partner organizations, and individuals that have participated in the program. The certificates include imagery, logos, and ISS insignia, as well as electronic signatures for Dr. Jeff Goldstein, SSEP Director, and Jeffrey Manber, Managing Director of NanoRacks, LLC.
The certificates are designed so that they can be customized to each community by including the name of the community and name of the community leader who will sign the certificates. The community leader may also provide an electronic signature to be incorporated in the certificate.
IMPORTANT NOTE: these are controlled documents given the inclusion of the institutional logos, particularly the NASA logo. We therefore request a letter from a SSEP Community Program Director, on their organization’s letterhead, stating that they will have control over printing and distribution of the certificates. Download a MS Word template for the Letter of Certificate Control
Requesting Your Customized Certificates
To request customized certificates for your community, send an email to jeffgoldstein@ncesse.org with the following information and documentation:
- The name of your community leader exactly as you would like it to be included in the certificate (please note the available space for the name; there is only one line of text available)
- The name of your community exactly as you would like it to be included in the certificate (please note the available space for the name; there is only one line of text available)
- If you would like to have the electronic signature of your community leader included in the final PDF file, which means that the certificates would not need to be signed by hand, provide the electronic signature. The format required for the signature is a PNG file which is transparent everywhere except within the signature itself (see, for example, the electronic signature for Jeff Goldstein on the certificate). Image files that are not transparent will block the background image, and cannot used.
- A signed Letter of Certificate Control from your organization addressing control of the printing and distribution of the certificates.
Please note that we cannot provide any other customization in the certificates except what is addressed in the list above.
We invite SSEP Community Program Directors to contact Jeff if you would like certificates that you can print in color, enter an individual’s names, and hand out (with great fanfare).
The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S., and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with NanoRacks LLC, working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory. SSEP is the first pre-college STEM education program that is both a U.S. national initiative and implemented as an on-orbit commercial space venture.
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), Carnegie Institution of Washington, NASA Nebraska Space Grant Consortium, and Subaru of America, Inc. are National Partners on the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program.