Something for the budding geniuses out there: NASA is inviting student teams to design and build experiments the agency will fly into the stratosphere, a near-space environment, more than 100,000 feet above the Earth. The second annual Balloonsat High-Altitude Flight Competition is open to student teams in ninth to twelfth grades from the U.S. and its territories. Each team must submit an experiment proposal to NASA by February 11. Experiments can be on a wide range of topics, such as bacteria studies or weather observations.
Once entries are received, a panel of NASA engineers and scientists will evaluate them. The top eight will be announced on March 4. The top four will get up to $1,000 to develop their experiments and travel to the research center. The other four teams will get up to $1,000 to develop their experiment, but will participate via the Internet.
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