The Last day at Mountain View Elementary School

April 25th,  2014 Thank you Ms. Jarvis for having the BSU Microgravity Team! We have had a blast teaching science, engineering, technology, and math to your 5th grade students over the past month. On Friday April 25th we finished the egg drop engineering challenge. The students worked in teams to redesign their "rovers" with a few new parameters. This week four team's "rovers" successfully protected their eggs....

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Marian Pritchett

On April 22nd, 2014, the BSU Microgravity Team had the opportunity to go to Marian Pritchett high school and work with pregnant teens and teen moms.  We taught these young women about Newton’s Laws of Motion using NASA Toys in Space Curriculum. The girls create their own experiments to explore these laws further and hypothesized how the various toys would perform within a microgravity environment.  We ended our outreach...

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Day Three at Mountain View Elementary School

On April 11, 2014, we returned to Ms. Jarvis’s colorful classroom for another day of STEM fun!  This visit we focused on the “E” in STEM education and engineering. We gave the students an engineering challenge to create an egg "rover," after watching the NASA video Seven Minutes of Terror about the Curiosity Rover's Mars landing. The students were given a bag of materials, a budget to purchase more materials, and...

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Day Two and Mountain View Elementary School

On Friday, April 4th, the Boise State Microgravity Team returned to Mountain View Elementary School for another fun day filled with inquiry, observations, designing, and redesigning.  The fifth graders were introduced to new vocabulary terms: independent, dependent, and controlled variables. They were then challenged to apply their new knowledge of variables to a simple loop plane experiment, constructed from a straw,...

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Thank You ISGC

The Idaho Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) granted The Boise State University Microgravity Research Team funding to support our project on March 17, 2014.   Thank you ISGC for helping in our endeavor to NASA Johnson Space Center, to test our Reduced Gravity Experiment. &nbs...

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Submission of the TEDP & Stress Analysis

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, the Boise State University Microgravity Research Team submitted the Test Equipment Data Package (TEDP) and Stress Analysis documents to NASA Microgravity University Program. We are now one step closer in our endeavor to NASA Johnson Space Center, to test our research project in microgravity! Scott, Janos, Roxanne, and Libby working late on the TEDP. ...

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