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Student Spaceflight Experiments Program -- Mission 13 to the International Space
Station

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education announces Mission 13
to the International Space Station. This opportunity gives students across a
community the ability to design and propose microgravity experiments to fly in
low-Earth orbit on the International Space Station (ISS). One experiment in each
community will be selected to fly to ISS. Mission 13 is open to school districts
serving grades 5-12, informal education organizations and 2- and 4-year
colleges. Interested communities must inquire about the program no later than
June 15, 2018.

An important consideration - the expectation is that a team of educators in a
participating community will engage typically 300 students, for a pre-college
initiative, or 30-40 students for an undergraduate initiative, over 9 weeks of
experiment design and proposal writing spanning September through November 2018.
Students across the community are separated into teams of 3-5 students, each
team designing and proposing a microgravity experiment, and making the case for
why their experiment should be selected for flight to ISS. The Student
Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) provides a fully authentic research
competition as a STEM Project Based Learning experience. Launch of the Mission
13 flight experiments is currently projected for Spring 2019.