Future Flight Family Exploration Program
Next Stop: Mars
University of Hawai'i, Manoa
June 21-22, 2008

Instructional modules
Mars Robotics (receive a dancing robot) Program a Robotix robot to save the Mars astronauts from a solar flare
Discovery Kit (receive a kit of 20 experiments) Do super, wow, neat science in a 20 experiment kit
Recycled Robot (receive a tin can robot) Recycle your aluminum soda or juice can into a robot
Earth-Mars ABCs (receive a Martian popper) Mini vacuum chambers create an explosive activity with marshmallow astronauts
Resource Analysis (receive a crystal mining kit) Learn identification keys for minerals....and dig for your own crystals
Liftoff to Mars (receive a rocket kit) Newton’s Laws of Motion...and launch your rocket to Mars
Mars Walking Crab (receive a solar powered walking crab) Build your solar powered crab-like vehicle
Windmill on Mars (receive a windmill kit to power a LED) Recycle a plastic water bottle to create a windmill
Mars Rover (receive a Turbo 3000 race car) Build your Mars Rover and challenge each other on the Mars raceway
Design Brief (receive basil seeds flown on STS-118 space shuttle mission) Design a future space farm and grown basil seeds which flew12 days in space http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/plantgrowth/home/index.html

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