Ann Marie Trotta
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1601
ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov
Jeannette Owens
Glenn Research Center, Cleveland
216-433-2990
jeannette.p.owens@nasa.gov
RELEASE: 11-346
NASA ANNOUNCES TWO NATIONAL STUDENT SCIENCE COMPETITIONS
CLEVELAND -- NASA is offering students the opportunity to compete in
two microgravity challenges: "Dropping In a Microgravity
Environment," or DIME, and "What If No Gravity?" or WING.
DIME is a team competition for high school students in the ninth
through 12th grades. WING is a competition for student teams from the
fifth through eighth grades. Both are project-oriented activities
that last throughout the school year for the selected teams.
DIME and WING are open to student teams from all 50 states,
Washington, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each team must have an
adult supervisor, such as a teacher, parent or technical consultant.
Teams may be from any type of organization or club, such as a science
class, a group of friends, a scout troop or youth group.
Proposals are due by Nov. 1. A panel of NASA scientists and engineers
will evaluate and select the top-ranked proposals by Dec. 1. The
winning teams will design and build the experiments that will be
conducted in the 2.2-Second Drop Tower at NASA's Glenn Research
Center in Cleveland.
The 79-foot tower gets its name because when an experiment is
"dropped" into it, the package experiences weightlessness, or
microgravity, for 2.2 seconds. Researchers from around the world use
this tower to study the effects of microgravity on physical
phenomena, such as combustion and fluid dynamics, and to develop new
technology for future space missions.
The top four DIME teams will receive an expense-paid trip to Glenn in
March 2012 to conduct their experiments, review the results with NASA
personnel and tour the center's facilities. All DIME participants
visiting NASA must be U.S. citizens.
Four additional DIME teams, and up to 30 WING teams, will be selected
to build their experiments and ship them to Glenn for NASA testing.
These experiments and the resulting data will be returned to the
teams, so they can prepare reports about their findings.
For more information about entering DIME and WING student team
competitions, visit:
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/DIME.html
DIME and WING are part of NASA's education program. The program allows
the agency to continue its work around the country to inspire, engage
and educate the next generation of engineers and scientists.
The Teaching From Space Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in
Houston sponsors the DIME and WING competitions. The office enhances
education opportunities that use the unique environment of human
spaceflight; works with crew members to arrange International Space
Station in-flight education downlinks; and provides education payload
operations and demonstrations.
For more information about NASA's education programs, visit:
For more information about NASA's Teaching From Space programs, visit
For information about NASA's Glenn Research Center, visit:
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