The SUNBEAMS program that I took part in was great.The trip to Goddard Space Flight Center each day,turned out wonderful because it was educational and fun.Students United with NASA becoming Enthusiastic About Math and Science is a great name because we did and are just that. The week at Goddard was so enlighting and fun.Me and other students from Garnet-Patterson M.S. in D.C. were invited to come and I'm glad we accepted.We got to learn many things about our universe.For instance we studied atoms,comets,craters,meteors,asteroids,and meteorites.We also conducted a few experiments on these studies.
I must say if I could go back each week,or once a month I would be very willing and happy too.Goddard deserves a tremendous amount of recognition for letting us stay for a week.Thank you NASA and Goddard.
I first became a SUNBEAM on Tuesday, Febuary 16,1999. SUNBEAMS is a program with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The word SUNBEAMS stands for (Students United with NASA Becoming Entusiastic About Math and Science). The program SUNBEAMS is a very fun and educational program. You learn about space, comets, meteors, asteroids, and stars. The program also teaches you about what meteors and comets hit the Earth. On Tuesday, we got to learn how to do the ''Mind Reader Cards'', interviews, and had a tour of the GSFC. We saw the cleanroom, TRACE, HST etc. On Wednesday, we got to go to the recreation center made meteorites out of clay, and did interviews. On Thursday, we identified what kind of meteorites we made,we did an interview, and identified helium, hydrogen ,and neon atoms.The SUNBEAMS program is a very good experience, and you learn alot.
During my week at NASA GODDARD SPACE CETER, it was the best time of my life. I really enjoyed researching asteroids, meteroids and interviewing important people like Dr. Jo. When I grow up, I would like to work at NASA GODDARD SPACER CENTER as an engineer. I enjoyed meeting Dr .larry Evans, who is one of the NEAR Project developers. I loved that people took time to work with us on different projects. We did the mind game with each other we did the observation sheets on our experiments.