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imagine being a high school student and

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getting to design and build your own

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experiment then getting to experience

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what it's like to float in zero g by

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testing that experiment well that's

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exactly what some high school students

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are getting the opportunity to do as

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part of the high schools united with

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nasa to create hardware or hunch extreme

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one of the engineers wanted to know if

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students could

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build experiments because of the

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national lab was set up and a third of

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the experiments were

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supposed to deal in education

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and

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usually that is with universities

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but hunch involved high schools and so

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they wanted to see if high school

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students and they've been really

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successful in um that's what i was going

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to say since 2009 what let's talk about

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some of the successes so

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um we have right now

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13 schools that participated last year

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flew on the zero gravity plane out of

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ellington field and

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of them

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one school was selected this year and

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two in previous years to

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go to the international space station

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however

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none have reached that

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spot yet

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all three schools are working on it but

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we have yet to send one to the iss

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but it's a learning process right of the

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whole the whole thing the procedures

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working with nasa it's all a learning

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experience for these kids it's a huge

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learning experience and and the schools

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that have been who have been selected

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have actually been working for

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two of them for five years so every year

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they fly on the zero gravity plane they

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improve their experiment the students

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often change who are working on it um

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but the teacher doesn't and

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every year they learn

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to meet those constraints

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and uh better and

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eventually

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they hopefully will get to fly to the

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iss that is their ultimate goal what is

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your ultimate goal with this program

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it's a win-win situation so it's a win

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for nasa because these students are

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doing important research for us

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we don't tell them

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what to do because my ultimate goal is

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to get the students to be

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involved in their experiment to own

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their experiment to be the

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the researchers in their experiment

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and to

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teachers as the facilitator so i want to

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my ultimate goal is to promote stem

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education but

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real life hands-on stem education i want

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them to apply their knowledge and use it

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in a meaningful way not to build a

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book holder or some other experiment but

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really know that what they're doing is

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contributing to not just space

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exploration but here on earth because

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all their experiments need to be

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important for space exploration and

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development

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so you guys are developing experiments

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was that what your school is tasked with

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yup we

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come up with an experiment that somehow

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betters

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life for astronauts in space

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in some way in some very small way and

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seek to put it on the space station to

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test it out and to put it into

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circulation actually

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have you done something already yep we

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are in the process of developing a tool

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it senses how far away tools are

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so it uses rfid and you put a sticker on

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your object and if it floats a certain

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distance away it will alert the user and

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it can kind of be work used in reverse

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too if you lost something you just bring

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the sensor around and it can tell you if

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you're close the kids called it spider

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which i thought they they came up with

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that and i'm like oh it's brilliant

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so it stands for spatial um

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identification and ranging

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wow i like

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spider you know with the thread going

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out and grabbing my i thought that was a

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really clever acronym and so i i just

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continually am impressed by my kids and

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their ability to to take it up on their

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own and and to do a good job that's

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that's neat to see and especially i've

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i've had kids that that say

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this is something i want to do like

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they're going to school now and that's

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their dream job is to work for nasa and

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i'm like oh it's awesome i think it's a

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really

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incredible opportunity in that way to do

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real science to be on a deadline to

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purport the proposal to write grants

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you know and to to then share your data

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with everybody else i think

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i mean that's what science is i mean so

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they're just doing it on a smaller scale

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smaller budget but it's really

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the same sort of thing which i think is

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cool it's been a real pleasure for me as

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an educator to you know because i teach

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kids a lot

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and they learn things for the test

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but to actually see kids working hard

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and involving i mean

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you know

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in one's specific project has been

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really cool and it's it and it's cool

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because it opens up for me um just the

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whole agency you know with nasa

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yeah i mean as a kid who loves science i

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mean it's really rejuvenated my teaching

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and it gets kids excited about learning

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science and

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it's been a real it's changed the way i

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teach

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um and just

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the way i look at the kids and the neat

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stuff that we do so it's been a real you