Helping Students to Get Experiment Launched
My name is Carolyn Bushman. I teach at Wendover High School, Utah’s only NASA Explorer School. Wendover has 180 7-12 grade students. Last year I had the opportunity of taking students to the Wallops Fight Facility to see their experiment fly on an Orion Rocket. I met Pamela Ghaffarian of Franke Park Elementary, Multiage Classroom and she told me how NASA Watch had helped get her students to Wallops (see “Fix A NASA Error: Help These Kids See Their Experiment Reach Space”)
Well this year I’m facing a similar dilemma. Due to cut backs the sub-sem is no longer happening, but the NES brought my attention to a new opportunity of having an experiment flown out of New Mexico. My students submitted an experiment and got it accepted. Read more
