2020-2021 School Year

During the 2020-2021 School year, Doug Shattuck, worked with the eighth grade on the theme of  Lunar Exploration and Habitation. The project is part of the NASA Initiative and it includes original research conducted by  the SJS students class of 2021. The eleven eighth grade students worked with simulated lunar highland dust provided by The University of Central Florida, from NASA to search for ways to use the lunar soil (regolith) as a building material to construct 3D Lunar Dwellings on the moon.

On May 19, 2021 the eleven eighth grade students presented their yearlong findings to MIT's Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, part of the Department of Civil and Enviornmental Engineering.

Our Mission

Our goal is to investigate ways that we can inhabit and support life on the moon in the future.

MIT LAMM Internship Program 2021

During the summer Mr. Shattuck, ran a 6 week internship program as part of the Outreach of Professor Markus Buehler's Lab. Last summer approximately forty-five students were involved from schools including St.Joes, Malden Catholic and Concord Carlisle, and together they worked as a team to investigate ways we could sustain life on the moon in the future. In 2021, the program was held at Malden Catholic and the research project was run by Doug and Saman Abbas, MC STEM director. 

The team worked on a variety of science and engineering projects. Some of the projects included experimenting with hydroponics for growing plants on the moon and designing an oven that could potentially be used on the moon. In addition, we built a Raspberry Pi Rover that can pick up bricks. We also investigated ways we could use lunar soil as a building material for 3D Lunar Dwellings. On July 28, 2021 the team presented to Markus Buehler's Lab, Department of Civil and Enviornmental Engineering.