SIMI GIRLS WIN NASA HONORS.Byline: Angela Randazzo Staff Writer SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - It was a trip to Mars for four students at Wood Ranch Elementary School elementary school: see school. , and their efforts won them a second-place award in the NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Student Involvement Program competition. Christina Britz, Chelsea Hasenauer, Brittani O'Cain, all 11, and Lindsay Strickland, 10, entered the contest as part of a project in teacher Gayle Simpson's fifth-grade class. ``We got a letter that said four girls in Mrs. Simpson's class had won second place. I thought it might be us because we were the only all-girl team,'' Christina said. ``We were so excited when we heard our names read and then we ran and called our parents.'' Team members were awarded an NSIP NSIP NASA Student Involvement Program NSIP nonspecific interstitial pneumonia NSIP National Sheep Improvement Program NSIP NATO Security Investment Program NSIP Network Security Improvement Program NSIP Nutrition Service Incentive Program medal and certificate, and their names will be posted on the NSIP Web site (www.nsip.net). The students won for Aeronautics aeronautics: see aerodynamics; airplane; aviation. and Space Science Journalism Science journalism is a relatively new branch of journalism, which uses the art of reporting to convey information about science topics to a public forum. The communication of scientific knowledge through mass media requires a special relationship between the world of science and , one of five categories in the competition. They wrote a script and made props for their four-minute video, ``A Trip to Mars.'' Team members also played the roles of a reporter and a scientist who were interviewing two astronauts who had landed on Mars to collect rock samples. ``I think what helped them win is that they mentioned some of the past Mars missions,'' said Simpson, the girls' teacher. ``They talked about the problem with the lost Polar Lander and some of the discoveries of the Hubbell Telescope.'' The NASA Students Involvement Program in a national program that is designed to encourage math, science, technology and geography skills for students in third through 12th grades. |
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