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Growing Beyond Earth
One of the academic achievements at Calvary Chapel Academy is being the only school, private or public, on the Space Coast that participates as an active research site for the Growing Beyond Earth Challenge (GBE).
The GBE Challenge is a STEM education program designed to have middle and high school students conduct botany experiments, designed in partnership with NASA researchers at Kennedy Space Center, that support NASA research on growing plants in space. GBE was initiated by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in collaboration with NASA’s Exploration Research and Technology Programs and Miami-Dade County Public School District.
As STEM students are actively testing edible plant cultivars to assist scientists at NASA, it's incredible to think their work, and the data they collect, will be used in future space missions.
The Goals of the GBE Challenge are to:
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Increase and sustain youth and public engagement in STEM related fields.
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Better serve groups historically underrepresented in STEM fields.
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Improve STEM instruction in schools.
Improve STEM instruction in schools by providing authentic research experiments that have real world implications through curricular activities that meet STEM education needs, comprehensive teacher training, summer-long internships and the development of replicable training modules. -
Support current and future NASA research
Support current and future NASA research by identifying and testing new plant varieties for future growth in space. During the 2016-17 academic year, 131 school classrooms participated in the program. To date, students have tested 91 varieties of edible plants and produced more than 100,000 data points that have been shared with the researchers at KSC.
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