Programs & Events

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

The Women at Work Museum is pleased to announce the arrival of additional packets of NASA seeds, which have traveled to space and back in the space shuttle.

The packets of seeds will be distributed at the Museum on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM and on Saturday, May 24, 2008 from 11:00 AM -12:30 PM.  A packet of seeds may be reserved prior to the distribution days by completing the Sign Up Form, but must be picked up on one of the designated days.  There is no cost for the seeds.

During the distribution times, students can sign up for classes to work on the NASA Engineering Design Challenge Lunar Plant Growth Chamber.  The challenge is to design, build and evaluate lunar plant growth chambers using the space-flown and ordinary earth-based basil seeds.  Participants may design, build and evaluate a chamber, or just evaluate a chamber. 

The classes will be held on the following days:

Tuesdays (Starting May 27th), 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Tuesdays (Starting May 27th), 3:30 – 5:00 PM

Wednesdays (Starting May 28h), 6:30 – 8:00 PM

Saturdays (Starting May 31st), 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

There will be 4 sessions for each class.

Cost: $15.00 per person

Class sizes:
Minimum class size is 10 students. 
Maximum class size is 20 students.

For more information or to sign up for a class, contact Project Coordinator
Bill Fasulo

You can visit the NASA Design Challenge site for more information: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/plantgrowth/home/index.html

NASA Engineering Design Challenge:  Lunar Plant Growth Chamber

To participate in the challenge and reserve your packet of seeds, complete the Sign Up Form.

For more information,
contact Project Coordinator
Bill Fasulo