Today, I noticed the YouTube icon was different (Google is famous for that), and so I clicked on it to find out why they would have a space helmet as part of the icon. I expected to learn that today was the anniversary of a famous space launch, but instead, I discovered that YouTube is sponsoring a competition to have a young person's experiment flown into space, conducted on the space station, and the experiment streamed back to Earth!
What a cool idea and a great opportunity for young people to think about experimental design. As the contest is open only to those 14-18, most middle school students cannot submit, but this seems a good opportunity to think about what experiments we need to do, how to do them, and it seems we might want our students to pay attention to what happens:
http://www.youtube.com/spacelab?feature=inp-yo-space
No comments:
Post a Comment