DECATUR -
It's not every day you get a phone call asking if you'd like to be a part of the next space mission.
That's what happened to the Engineering Academy in the Decatur City School System, which combines Austin and Decatur High Schools.
The students have been chosen to have their work put in space, and they have a matter of months to get it together.
NASA and UA Huntsville chose the students to put together a science engineering experiment.
"They were looking for some high school kids that were excited, and enthusiastic and had imagination," said Susan Haddock, engineering teacher. "And could create something maybe out of the box and they were looking for something oh ah gee whiz experiment to go any one of these missions that they're planning."
The students make up four classes. Each will pick a different mission, and complete it by April.
"They've been arguing quite a bit. We've found through the process there's a whole lot of things we don't know that we need to research," said Haddock.
Now, that's one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind, and a big bonus on these kids' resumes.
"Going to look great in all the colleges," said Lindsay Boonarket, an engineering student.
The students were shocked to learn about this opportunity.
"I was like ecstatic about it. Like I was so excited when I heard about the mission, the things that we were going to be doing," said Trevor Montgomery, an engineering student. "This is the part of the engineering academy that interests me."
"I was just like wow, speechless," said Boonarket.
Now, which mission to choose? hmmm.
Trevor Montgomery likes the Lunar Mission.
"There is a South Pole on the moon that has never seen the sun and it has a crater about 17, 18 kilometers deep and we're going to go up there and run some experiments and just see what its like up there," said Montgomery.
And Lindsay Boonarket has a passion for the Venus Mission.
I'm sure they'll work it out by the deadline, which is April.
The project the students are working on might not go up until 2020.
That's what happened to the Engineering Academy in the Decatur City School System, which combines Austin and Decatur High Schools.
The students have been chosen to have their work put in space, and they have a matter of months to get it together.
NASA and UA Huntsville chose the students to put together a science engineering experiment.
"They were looking for some high school kids that were excited, and enthusiastic and had imagination," said Susan Haddock, engineering teacher. "And could create something maybe out of the box and they were looking for something oh ah gee whiz experiment to go any one of these missions that they're planning."
The students make up four classes. Each will pick a different mission, and complete it by April.
"They've been arguing quite a bit. We've found through the process there's a whole lot of things we don't know that we need to research," said Haddock.
Now, that's one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind, and a big bonus on these kids' resumes.
"Going to look great in all the colleges," said Lindsay Boonarket, an engineering student.
The students were shocked to learn about this opportunity.
"I was like ecstatic about it. Like I was so excited when I heard about the mission, the things that we were going to be doing," said Trevor Montgomery, an engineering student. "This is the part of the engineering academy that interests me."
"I was just like wow, speechless," said Boonarket.
Now, which mission to choose? hmmm.
Trevor Montgomery likes the Lunar Mission.
"There is a South Pole on the moon that has never seen the sun and it has a crater about 17, 18 kilometers deep and we're going to go up there and run some experiments and just see what its like up there," said Montgomery.
And Lindsay Boonarket has a passion for the Venus Mission.
I'm sure they'll work it out by the deadline, which is April.
The project the students are working on might not go up until 2020.
