Six students from Adel Desoto Minburn Middle School just won a national NASA STEM competition. They're very excited because they're only one of 60 winning teams from across the country. The winning scientists are made up of a group of 7th graders. The team submitted their project proposal in December and waited more than a month before the announcement. For a second, they thought they didn't make it. "I was going to second guessing it," Lukas Crannell, TechRise student challenge member, said. But then, the school's name popped up on the winners' screen and everyone screamed and cheered."It's obviously very exciting and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Lucas Seifert, TechRise student challenge member, said. For the next few months, the team will build a device from scratch that will be sent 70,000 feet into the air. "It will have different sensors to measure the gases in the different layers of the sky," Crannell said. They also hope the device can capture the temperature of the atmosphere and collect other data. NASA is giving the team $1,500 and engineering experts to help them turn their ideas into reality."They're very well-organized. They make you check the box five different times to make sure that it's going to work," Jon Markus, Adel DeSoto Minburn Middle School teacher, said. Markus is the teacher cheering the boys on and supporting them every step of the way. "It's really been fun to watch them grow as a team through this," Markus said. Besides being a great team - each member agrees to be friends with all your teammates since kindergarten makes things easier.The students' project will be launching out of South Dakota this summer.
Six students from Adel Desoto Minburn Middle School just won a national NASA STEM competition. They're very excited because they're only one of 60 winning teams from across the country.
The winning scientists are made up of a group of 7th graders. The team submitted their project proposal in December and waited more than a month before the announcement. For a second, they thought they didn't make it.
"I was going to second guessing it," Lukas Crannell, TechRise student challenge member, said.
But then, the school's name popped up on the winners' screen and everyone screamed and cheered.
"It's obviously very exciting and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Lucas Seifert, TechRise student challenge member, said.
For the next few months, the team will build a device from scratch that will be sent 70,000 feet into the air.
"It will have different sensors to measure the gases in the different layers of the sky," Crannell said.
They also hope the device can capture the temperature of the atmosphere and collect other data. NASA is giving the team $1,500 and engineering experts to help them turn their ideas into reality.
"They're very well-organized. They make you check the box five different times to make sure that it's going to work," Jon Markus, Adel DeSoto Minburn Middle School teacher, said.
Markus is the teacher cheering the boys on and supporting them every step of the way.
"It's really been fun to watch them grow as a team through this," Markus said.
Besides being a great team - each member agrees to be friends with all your teammates since kindergarten makes things easier.
The students' project will be launching out of South Dakota this summer.
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