Cubes in Space™ is a program by idoodledu inc., in
collaboration with NASA’s Langley Research Center, NASA’s Wallops Flight
Facility and Colorado Space Grant Consortium, offers global design competitions
for students 11-18 years of age to develop STEAM-based experiments for launch
into space.
Used in formal or informal learning environments,
students and educators are exposed to engaging online content and activities in
preparation for the design and development of an experiment to be integrated
into a small cube. Throughout the experience, students develop key 21st century
skills; communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.
Since 2014, Cubes in Space has flown nearly 400
experiments representing 1500 educators and over 20,000 students from 57
different countries. This year nearly 600 educators and thousands of
students from 39 countries participated and proposed experiments for a space on
a NASA sounding rocket or high-altitude scientific balloon mission. A
total of 160 experiments were selected and were designed by students from
Australia, Austria, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Serbia, the
United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, the and the United States of America.
The experiments will be launched via sounding
rocket in late June 2017 from NASA Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore
of Virginia or by high-altitude scientific balloon in late summer 2017 from
NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Ft. Sumner, New Mexico.
