Challenge winners announced

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. -- Three school student teams in the fifth through eighth grades have been selected as winners of NASA's second annual Spaced Out Sports challenge. The students designed science-based games that will be played by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The games apply Newton's laws of motion by showing the differences between Earth's gravity and the microgravity environment of the space station. The challenge is part of a broader agency education effort to engage students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities. The winning teams were from Pierremont Elemntary MOSAICS Academy in Manchester, Mo., East Brook Middle School in Paramus, N.J., and Tyngsborough Middle School in Tyngsborough, Mass. SSC's Office of Education developed the challenge and curriculum. (Source: NASA, 04/10/12)