Success Stories

San Jose, California

Valley Christian Schools

Students from Valley Christian Schools in San Jose, California launched the first-ever Windows 10 IoT based experiment to the International Space Station via DreamUp. The experiment ran on NanoRacks Black Box platform. Microsoft and the Quest Institute collaborated to make this opportunity available to these students. They tested the pliability of metals in space with the goal of better understanding how metals react in space.

A Program of the NCESSE

Student Spaceflight Experiments Program

In partnership with DreamUp, and our launch services provider NanoRacks, SSEP has flown over 150 student experiments to the Space Station, with another 53 launching in 2017. SSEP has engaged over 74,000 students grades 5-16 and has reviewed over 16,200 flight experiment proposals. Featured above are students from Hamlin Park School 74 in Buffalo studying potato growth, inspired by The Martian!

Ravensburg, Germany

Edith Stein Agricultural High School

Three students, supported by BASF, crowdfunded a visionary space farming research project. Their project “V3PO” studied the growth of plant cuttings in microgravity in order to bring new knowledge about cultivating plants in space and to inspire new ways to grow food in the future.

Testimonials

  • We were on the lookout for a project that we could use school-wide that would address an international audience and focus on science…The whole point is to make STEM come alive, make science something greater.

    Anne Green
    Principal, Vista Magnet Middle School - SSEP Program
  • It definitely affected how I think about science. I used to not like it at all, and now it’s my favorite subject. I definitely want to be an astrophysicist so I can study space more.

    Student Researcher
    Grade 6, Kerr Middle School
  • Working on the AGAR DreamUp project has been a game changer for me. It opened my eyes to what I really love to do as well as advance my education in so many ways… This project has helped me in so many ways. I owe a lot to this project.

    Kobi Hudson
    Student Lead Engineer, Rocky Mountain College
  • Space inspires us to explore. I think we live in a day and age where most people are content with what they have on Earth — but we were founded on exploration. For us to reignite that passion of exploration in another worldly setting is kind of awesome…and very important.

    JP
    Student Researcher, Grade 11, Lamar Academy
  • I witnessed my project launch, and then recovered the results in what was easily the most educational process I had ever been a part of. I learned more during my ISS research experiment than I did doing anything else in high school. Every STEM student would be better off if they had the opportunity, as I had, to work along professional companies.

    Joe Tiberi
    Studemt, Purdue University

Testimonials about DreamUp

We were on the lookout for a project that we could use school-wide that would address an international audience and focus on science…The whole point is to make STEM come alive, make science something greater.

Anna Green
Principal, Vista Magnet Middle School - SSEP Program

It definitely affected how I think about science. I used to not like it at all, and now it’s my favorite subject. I definitely want to be an astrophysicist so I can study space more.

Student Researcher
Grade 6, Kerr Middle School

Working on the AGAR DreamUp project has been a game changer for me. It opened my eyes to what I really love to do as well as advance my education in so many ways…Since the start of the project I have been able to present our research at several different research symposiums and meet a ton of other students doing amazing things as well as meet professionals in any fields…It helped me get an internship at the Space Science and Engineering Laboratory at Montana State University and the Google self driving…This project has helped me in so many ways. I owe a lot to this project.

Kobi Hudson
Student Lead Engineer, Rocky Mountain College

Space inspires us to explore. I think we live in a day and age where most people are content with what they have on Earth — but we were founded on exploration. For us to reignite that passion of exploration in another worldly setting is kind of awesome…and very important.

JP
Student Researcher, Grade 11, Lamar Academy

As a high school student, I had the opportunity to design, test, and build a science experiment through a program called N.A.S.A. HUNCH. I witnessed my project launch, and then recovered the results in what was easily the most educational process I had ever been a part of. I learned more during my ISS research experiment than I did doing anything else in high school. Every STEM student would be better off if they had the opportunity, as I had, to work along professional companies.

As a student working with the ISS, I was presented with real problems to solve, real consequences for failure, and therefore a real reason to learn.

Joe Tiberi
Student, Purdue University