After a day of rocket launches during the 2017 Student Launch, NASA announced the challenge's preliminary winners April 8 at an awards ceremony hosted by Orbital ATK Aerospace Group of Promontory, Utah, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
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After a day of rocket launches during the 2017 Student Launch, NASA announced the challenge's preliminary winners April 8 at an awards ceremony hosted by Orbital ATK Aerospace Group of Promontory, Utah, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Image Credit: NASA/MSFC/Fred Deaton
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NASA has announced the winners of the 2017 Human Exploration Rover Challenge, held March 31 to April 1 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Ramon Quinones Medina High School of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, won first place in the high school division, with a time of 4 minutes, 12 seconds. The University of Puerto Rico at Humacao Team 1 won the college/university division with a time of 4 minutes, 21 seconds. Both teams had the fastest race times in their divisions, with the fewest on-course penalties.
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Morgan County Mech Tech team members, at right in green, are intent on the action as they maneuver their robot to pick up and toss balls of "fuel" during the FIRST Robotics Competition's Rocket City Regional at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville March 24-25. Mech Tech, comprised of students from five high schools in Morgan County, Alabama, was one of three winners at the regional that will advance to the FIRST national championships April 19-22 in Houston. Mech Tech and the Golden Hurricane from Columbia High School in Huntsville were both "house" teams sponsored by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
The “Rocket City Regional” was sponsored by NASA and supported by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. Nearly 1,300 high-school students on 50 teams from 10 states, Canada and the Dominican Republic competed in a new robotics game called "FIRST STEAMWORKS." Two big, mechanical airships from the bygone era when technology relied on steam power were positioned on the competition field, and three-team alliances called "adventure clubs" must prepare their airships for an imaginary, long-distance race.
Complete results of the 2017 Rocket City Regional are available at: frc-events.firstinspires.org/2017/ALHU/playoffs
For Rocket City Regional event information, visit: firstinalabama.org/events/frc-events
More information about FIRST programs and competitions is available at: www.usfirst.org
More information about NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is available at: www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall
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Jeanette Scissum joined NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 after earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Alabama A&M University. Scissum published a NASA report in 1967, “Survey of Solar Cycle Prediction Models,” which put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot cycle. In the mid-1970s she worked as a space scientist in the Space Environment Branch of Marshall’s Space Sciences Laboratory and later led activities in Marshall’s Atmospheric, Magnetospheric, and Plasmas in Space project.
In 1975, Scissum wrote an article for the National Technical Association, “Equal Employment Opportunity and the Supervisor – A Counselor’s View,” which argued that many discrimination complaints could be avoided “through adequate and meaningful communication.” Scissum later worked at NASA Headquarters as a computer systems analyst responsible for analyzing and directing NASA management information and technical support systems.
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