In honor of NASA’s Artemis II successful trip to the moon, science teacher Ivo Decarlis assigned his students a project based on the everyday products that were developed from NASA’s research.
Those inventions are called “spinoffs.”
Scholars took about the same time it took the astronauts to fly to the moon and back to complete their projects.
“We are on the space exploration unit, and I decided to do the projects as a ‘spinoff’ project,” he said. “It would be like a free choice project on something that would interest them.”
The projects are currently displayed in the media center. Decarlis said that he liked many of the submissions.
“There were more than one that were my favorites,” he said.
One of those projects belonged to eighth-graders Ella Keith and Eleni Hamilton about lunar gardening.
Keith said that she discovered the value of using lunar soil to grow vegetables.
“It helped me learn about gardening in space and how astronauts will be able to stay in space longer while being able to garden with lunar soil,” Keith said.
Hamilton said she learned the importance of NASA’s research.
“It helped us a lot with NASA’s mission and what they are trying to do with the spinoffs they make to help space travel,” she said.
