Go For Launch! Is about to come back to Deerfield High School.
The program allows students to meet former NASA employees and astronauts, and they may also work on a science experiment that will be propelled into space.
Michelle Lucas used to be an astronaut instructor and flight controller for the space station, and was employed in Houston at the NASA's Johnson Space Center. Now she concentrations on education and heads Higher Orbits, a non-profit for educational projects. Go For Launch! is the first the organization has taken on.
According to Lucas, she wants to help students fulfill their dreams of becoming engineers and scientists through the demonstration of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. Lucas continues that it is not her goal to make every child a brilliant scientist but to educate them on STEM fields by using space.
Last year, DHS presented six activities of the program, where students made a science experiment with radiation shielding that won first place and will go into space sometime this year.
This year, astronaut Don Thomas will be at the school for three days. Thomas commented that older kids ask about this career while younger children are simply amazed that he went to space.
The event takes place this weekend, March 4 to 6. One way to have more students sign up for programs like this is to distribute Flyers around the community.
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