Stony Brook Students Reach for the Stars!
2019-2020
Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students at Stony Brook School are participating in a national model STEM education program engaging over 300 of our students in a very real microgravity experiment design and proposal writing. Their participation culminates in one of the student-proposed experiments selected to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in low Earth orbit, where it will be operated by the astronauts. The experiment would be part of a payload for Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Mission 14 to ISS, which will launch in spring/summer 2020.
Current status of fundraising:
$7,500 from NASA Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium based at MIT
$4,100 from Red Hat
$4,000 from Veracode
$3,000 from the Westford Charitable Foundation
$2000 from the Westford Education Foundation
$1,655 from Stony Brook School teacher fundraising (Go Fund Me & Westfest)
$1,000 from the Greater Lowell Community Foundation
$1,000 from NetScout
$500 from Magellan Aerospace
$500 from the Westford Family FunFest Fund (component fund with the GLCF)
$500 from the Don Mason Family Fund (component fund with the GLCF)
$500 from the Westford Community Fund (component fund with the GLCF)
$500 from the Westford Rotary Club
$500 Virtusa
$150 from Cliff and Shayndel Kahn
$50 Bridges and Bows
Funds raised in excess of the $25,00 cost of the program will go toward underwriting travel to Washington D.C. for the winning team of students!
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Learn more about the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program!
Check out the launch of the most recent Student Spaceflight Experiments Program: