Small passive student experiments on G324 261 individual quests for student knowledge

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Sep 1995

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In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, The 1995 Shuttle Small Payloads Symposium p 259-263 (SEE N96-13754 02-12)

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Cameras, Get Away Specials (Sts), Kits, Planetary Mapping, Research Projects, Seeds, Spaceborne Experiments, Students, Trees (Plants), Vegetation Growth, Earth Observations (From Space), Education, Gravitational Effects, Radiation Effects, Space Transportation System, Space Transportation System Flights

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The Charleston County School District CAN DO Project payload on STS-57 had a primary goal of photographing the Earth with the GeoCam camera system. In addition, the payload carried 261 passive student experiments representing the efforts of several thousand students throughout the district and in four other states. These experiments represented the individual concepts of teams ranging in age from pre-school to high school. Consequently, a tremendous variety of samples from collard green seeds to microscopic 'water bears' were flown. Each prospective team was provided a simple kit equipped with five vials. Each student team submitted five coded samples, one for space flight and four control samples. The control samples were exposed to radiation, cold and centrifugation respectively while one negative control sample was passively stored. The students received the samples back still coded so that they were unaware of which samples were flown. They then investigated their samples according to their individual research protocols. The results were presented in poster and platform form at a student research symposium. Space Trees grown from tree seeds flown in the payload have been planted at all district schools, and at many guest schools. These seeds represented another way in which to involve additional classes and students. Both the passive experiments and the space trees were housed in what otherwise would have been wasted space within the payload. They extended the GAS programs worthwhile ballast concept to another level. The opportunity to fly an experiment in space is too previous not to be extended to the greatest number of students possible.

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