Space Teams Labs is a 100% NASA-funded program. Space Teams Labs will provide middle- and high-school-aged students* a virtual portal to learn, collaborate, and engage in space mission design and simulation. Space mission virtual reality (VR) demos, such as spacewalking on the International Space Station, exploring the surface of any planet or moon, or experiencing artificial gravity on a rotating space station, will inspire and engage students to pursue STEM. In this collaborative space system virtual reality STEM educational experience, students will…
- collaborate, communicate, problem-solve and work as a team
- conduct a human space exploration mission
- build their own spacecraft
- travel across the vast expanses of space
- create their own base
- explore a new planet
- find resources to sustain mission habitability
Competition Process
The program is flexible to meet your students’ time availability and curriculum cadence. There are 6 learning modules. Space Teams has been run as a 6-day camp, and so may be delivered anywhere from 6 days (1 topic per day) to 6 weeks (1 topic per week). As student teams complete each module, they are scored and can compare scores with other teams. At any point in the process, they may return to an earlier module and make improvements to their choices based upon what they learned to aim for a higher score. After completion of module 6, students receive a completion certificate and can revisit the program at any point to work on learning and improving their design.Judging Criteria
See competition website for more details.Participate
Website: https://ig.utexas.edu/tsgc/space-teams-labs/
Managing Organization: Texas Space Grant Consortium
Eligibility:
Any school, museum, library, non-profit, university partner, or other facility that targets middle- and high-school-aged youth. Initial NASA program funding supports up to 100 sites in Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas and is facilitated by the Space Grants in those states. Applications are welcome from all states for all schools and STEM programs outside the supported states and can participate at the cost of $495 per site, plus $50 per student.
Any school, museum, library, non-profit, university partner, or other facility that targets middle- and high-school-aged youth. Initial NASA program funding supports up to 100 sites in Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas and is facilitated by the Space Grants in those states. Applications are welcome from all states for all schools and STEM programs outside the supported states and can participate at the cost of $495 per site, plus $50 per student.