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Celebrate World Space Week Oct. 4-10
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It's a busy week in the space world: NASA's 50th anniversary and the kick-off for World Space Week. Folks in more than 50 nations annually celebrate space exploration during the event launched by the United Nations in 1999. Here, kids in the Czech Republic show off their rockets during the 2007 event.
How can you celebrate World Space Week? The sky's the limit!
If you're a student at Curington Elementary School in Boerne, TX, you'll be launching EggNauts and collaborating with NASA scientists in a comparison between Mars rocks and Earth rocks.
Mars scientists are asking students from around the world to help them understand the red planet. Our class will go on a Rock Hunt on campus and collect rocks from our region and send them into NASA and NASA scientists will use a special tool like the one on their rover to tell us what it's made of. Then everyone can and will compare their rocks to the ones found on Mars. NASA will then send us an official certificate and Mars sticker for our contributions.
In addition to the Rock Hunt, we will conduct the Eggnaut Mission: design and build a vehicle that will protect our Eggnaut from the perils of reentry. The objective is to have your Eggnaut survive the fall with out a crack. We will also design a laboratory for the International Space Station.
Am I too late to register? I can still just about fit into one of those little desks--pick me, pick me!
If you're in Romania and attend Constantin Brancusi School in Cluj-Napoca, plan now how to carry home your prizes after working on the Space Boulevard:
A "boulevard" modelling the solar system, the properties of planets, asteroids, their physical and chemical properties, as well as the relationship between their movements will be realized by the students form 10 to 14 years old. parents and public will be invited to answer questions about our system. Of course, there will be prizes for all.
Prizes? Good deal!
It doesn't matter where in the world you are, something's going on for World Space Week. And there's room for you, too--astronomy clubs, space clubs, in fact, everybody is welcome to plan an event.
In fact, if you're celebrating World Space Week, write me and send your photos! Then I can share your activities with space fans around the world.
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