EINSTEIN is headed to SPACE!
Last week, Einstein teacher Aprill Hesse and students Evan Kellom, Jeremy McWhorter, Luke Pfaff, and Matan Cohen capped off an incredible year by traveling to Houston to compete in the finals of the NASA Hunch program, which encourages students to develop innovative solutions to problems encountered by astronauts working on the International Space Station. The Einstein student team presented their design and a prototype of the Solar Sun Tracker: sun-tracking software that regulates mechanisms on a lunar rover capable of producing bricks used for building structures on the lunar surface.
Our team was one of only 43 teams (out of nearly 3,000 entrants) that made it to Houston in the category of Design and Prototype. The team’s prototype was determined to be in the top 5 in the nation! The design of the Solar Sun Tracker will be used on NASA’s Artemis III lunar mission. In recognition of their hard work and accomplishments, our team members were asked to apply for highly competitive NASA summer internships. Evan, Jeremy, Luke, and Matan also signed a locker that will be sent to the International Space Station, where their names and Einstein School will orbit the Earth. Congratulations!
