NASA Announces a New Aeronautics Competition - High School and College Level

[Rich Wong]

The Competition is called "Air Transportation in 2057"

Imagine living and working 50 years into the future. Write an essay
describing your informed ideas about how air and space transportation has
changed due to the successful implementation of new aeronautics
technologies. For example, imagine yourself in a futuristic scenario made
possible by very high speed vehicles. Look back on the technical advances
that have made such flights routine. This is just one example, students can
imagine other ways to address this challenge

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HIGH SCHOOL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
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Registration for High Schools: December 15th, final proposal March 15, 2007
Cash awards range from $1000-$5000!!
High school submissions may be individual or group efforts papers.

http://aero.larc.nasa.gov/competitions_high.htm

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COLLEGE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
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Registration for College Students: January 19, 2007, final proposal April
23, 2007
Winning college students may recieve a 10-week summer internship at NASA
field center!!!

http://aero.larc.nasa.gov/competitions_univ.htm

[KenWittlief]

Very interesting. Air travel is one of the topics we used on our team to teach students about data driven analysis.

If you record the time it takes for a person to travel cross county by air, from the time they leave their house, till they walk through the front door of their destination, I think you will be surprized by the small percentage of that time that is spent actually flying on an aircraft, and how much time is consumed by other things in the process.