Second Spaced Out launched

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - NASA announced a second Spaced Out Sports competition, challenging students in grades 5-8 to create science-based games that will be played by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The initial competition attracted 56 submissions. It's part of a broader agency education effort to engage students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities. Students have until March 16 to design or redesign a game to illustrate and apply Sir Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion. They will submit game demonstrations for review via a playbook and video, and three submissions will be chosen before the end of the 2012 spring school semester. The first-place team will be awarded a school-wide celebration sponsored by NASA. All three of the winning teams will be able to watch their games played aboard the ISS. More information on Spaced Out Sports. (Source: NASA, 01/12/12)