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Robertsville students have ultimate review panel for year-long project: NASA engineers

Posted at 9:14 am May 24, 2016
By Holly Cross Leave a Comment

Robertsville Middle School students meet with NASA engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. The small cube satellites that the students created were 1U (1 cube unit). This is an actual 6U (the size of 2x3 of the 1Us) cube satellite that is used to carry payloads in space. (Submitted photo via Oak Ridge Schools)

Robertsville Middle School students meet with NASA engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. The small cube satellites that the students created were 1U (1 cube unit). This is an actual 6U (the size of 2×3 of the 1Us) cube satellite that is used to carry payloads in space. (Submitted photo via Oak Ridge Schools)

 

Most middle school students, when planning a trip to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are thinking of IMAX theater screenings, artifacts, and experiencing the physics of astronaut training in simulators such as the Space Shot and G-Force.

But what if these learners were given a real-life challenge that NASA engineers face on a daily basis, and asked to solve problems generally relegated to the top minds in the industry? What if those same young scholars were given the opportunity to then present their thought processes and design challenges to NASA engineers for a critical review?

This is the incredible experience Robertsville Middle School Ram Time participants were given in Todd Livesay’s enrichment course, a press release said. It is a part of the Response to Instruction and Intervention, or RTI2, model introduced this year in Oak Ridge middle schools, which provides rich opportunities for students who are exceeding grade level expectations in their core courses. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Federal, Front Page News, Government, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: CSLI, cube satellite, CubeSat Launch Initiative, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA, Ram Time, Response to Instruction and Intervention, RMS, Robertsville Middle School, RTI2, Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics, STEM, Susan Currie, Todd Livesay, U.S. Space and Rocket Center

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