HAS Teams (explained)
Each week the students will be divided into four teams. Each
team will have a designated color and a designated theme.
The themes that will be explored
during your experience focus on Mars exploration.
The topic is a human Mission to Mars!
Mission Integration (Gray Team):
This team is responsible for pulling together
the overall mission. Coordination of all the teams is vital
for presentation of one mission to Mars. All of the following
topics will need to be addressed:
- Mission Parameters / Overall Goals
- Landing site / Crew Selection
- Budget
Getting There and Back (Red Team):
Why do we go? How do we go? What are the
risks? Where are we going? How do we go safely?
- Rationale and risk assessment
- Prototyping and testing of systems on
the Moon
- Interplanetary spacecraft design (propulsion,
timelines, and communication systems)
- Landing sites
- Radiation hazards
- Microgravity issues and Mars (1/3) gravity
issues
- Nutrition and exercise
Living There (White Team):
How do we survive? What are the dangers?
What are our physical needs? What are our psychological
needs?
- Moon/Mars habitat design
- Plant growth facilities
- In-situ resource utilization on Mars
(air, water, fuel)
- Radiation and climate hazards
- Mars (1/3) gravity issues
- Nutrition and exercise
- Recreation and interpersonal relationships
- Communications with Earth
Working There (Blue Team):
What is our mission? What do we need?
How will we do it? Where will we go? How will we communicate
our discoveries? How will we work together as a team?
- Exploration: discovering a new world
- The search for life
- Laboratories and tools
- Space suit requirements
- Rovers and robots
- Communications
- Team organization (work assignments)
Student teams will use the following tools
to give a final team project presentation on each of the
above themes (a PowerPoint and tri-fold display board):
- Subject Matter Expert Briefings, Interviews
and Tours
- Mentor and Co-op Knowledge
- Internet Resources (including links
provided for pre-service instruction)
- Books and CD-ROMs
Students and Teachers will be notified
of their respective teams in April once week assignments
have been completed. Each team will consist of approx.
10 students, a teacher, a NASA
engineer mentor, and a NASA engineer co-op student. Students
will meet their mentors, teacher/counselors and co-ops
via e-mail and on-line discussions. |
