Space Academy

 St. Louis School CyberSTEM (Grades 5-8) students attended Space Academy, an educational partnership between Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL) and Discovery Education. We spent the day learning about the Radiation Belt Storm Probe (RBSP) and the Van Allen radiation belts that surround our planet. Our day began with a press conference held by several of the aerospace engineers and scientists who worked on the RBSP project. Students had an opportunity to listen to a panel presentation and ask questions about the project, outer space, and careers in science. We enjoyed a pizza lunch sponsored by Discovery Education and had the opportunity to continue our conversations with the presenters at our lunch tables. After lunch, we all dressed in our clean room suits and had the opportunity to tour the test facility for RBSP. We learned about the spacecraft assembly process, subassembly checkout and testing, and what it takes to put a spacecraft into orbit. We closed the day by thanking the presenters and were excited to discover we could take home our clean room suits! We are grateful to APL and Discovery Education for making possible such an interesting and educational day for our students