NASA astronauts and other scientists visited students at Stewart Middle Magnet School in Tampa, Fla., this week as part of the space agency's Destination Station program. Stewart, a NASA Explorer School with a STEM magnet program, hosted Q&A sessions with astronauts and scientists from the International Space Station National Laboratory.
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High-school culinary students in a Florida district recently competed against 130 schools as part of a NASA culinary challenge. The "space" meals must meet certain nutrition requirements to feed astronauts on the International Space Station.
Manufacturing academy students at a Florida high school worked during this school year to make suitcase access doors for NASA. The parts are intended to be used on the International Space Station.
A group of four culinary students from a Florida high school are competing for an opportunity to prepare meals for astronauts. The team was one of nine to advance from a group of 36 teams from around the country vying to have their food freeze dried and sent to astronauts on the International Space Station.
High-school culinary students in an Alabama district recently won NASA's national culinary challenge. The students' dish, blackberry-orange croissant breakfast casserole, will be served to astronauts on the International Space Station.
Astronauts on the International Space Station recently ate a meal comprised of Jamaican rice and beans with coconut milk. A team of students from a high school in Virginia designed the meal for the High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware Culinary Challenge.