#TeacherOnBoard Ricky Arnold and Guardians of the Galaxy Super Heroes Launch to Station in 2018!

Written by Nathan Smith on January 11, 2018. Posted in STEM and STEAM.

Audience: Students Ages 13-18
Entry Deadline: Jan. 31, 2018
Contact: JSC-STEMonStation@mail.nasa.gov

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space and Marvel Entertainment are challenging students to design a microgravity experiment based on the characteristics of popular Marvel comics super heroes — Rocket and Groot. Two student-submitted concepts for the Guardians of the Galaxy Space Station Challenge will become official space station experiments. Who knows? Maybe former classroom teacher and astronaut Ricky Arnold will conduct the experiments during his 2018 mission.

Find more ways to bring NASA into your classroom during NASA’s A Year of Education on Station, a celebration of an almost 12-month presence of a teacher on board the International Space Station.

Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith is Director of Technology for the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. In that role, he also directs The Adele & Dale Young Education Technology Center (The YETC) located in room 170 of the Education Building on Utah State University's Logan campus. The YETC is a combination student openaccess computer facility, a K12 curriculum materials library, a NASA Educator Resource Center for Utah, and a technology training center. Nathan served eight years (20042012) on the Board of Directors for the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET) He was reelected in 2014 to serve another two year term on the board. A former elementary school teacher, Nathan has taught students every age from young children to senior citizens. He has had the opportunity beginning in 2011 to train international high school teachers from all over the world about technology in education, through the U.S. State