2008 - NASA’s Engineering Design Challenge - Growing Cinnamon Basil Seeds

The Women at Work Museum in Attleboro was a resource center for the NASA Lunar Plant Growth Chamber Engineering Design Challenge.  

images.2008-3.gifThe challenge: To design, build and evaluate lunar plant growth chambers using the space-flown and ordinary earth-based basil seeds.  Participants designed, built and evaluated a chamber, or just evaluated a chamber. 

Students participated in the engineering design process and learned how to conduct a scientific experiment.
Plant growth will be an important part of space exploration in the future as NASA plans for long-duration missions to the moon.  Students designed, built and evaluated lunar plant growth chambers.
Visit the NASA Design Challenge site for more information: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/plantgrowth/home/index.html