The winners of the 2024 Power to Explore Student Essay content (from left to right) Aadya Karthik, Raine Lin, and Thomas Liu.
NASA/Rachel Zimmerman-Brachman
WHAT: The three grand prize winners of NASA's third Power to Explore Challenge, a national essay competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes, visited the NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 8 to learn about the people and technologies that power NASA missions. During their visit, they toured some of the test facilities that NASA uses to research and develop innovative solutions for a sustained return to the moon and then onto Mars!
WHEN: Thursday, August 8 from 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM ET
- Greetings at the Research Support Building
- Zero-Gravity Facility
- Lunch with NASA Engineers at the Glenn Cafe
- Slope Lab
- Electric Propulsion and Nuclear Power
- Glenn's Visualization Lab (GVIS)
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