We choose to the undertake this space project. 30 experiment period on ISS choose to take it into space on the ISS in this first year of Ambassador HS and do the "other things," not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

Students will work in MULTIPLE teams to plan, design, build, program, test, flight qualify, launch, operate & document independent payload module experiments to interface with the NanoLab Master Controller. The payload modules are contained within the NanoLab enclosure with a USB connector. The unit will be connected to the NanoRacks (our ISS Interface) and then to the ISS astronaut’s computer via a USB cable. Once the payloads are installed and powered on, the data will be downloaded to the students on a prescribed download schedule three times each week (Mon, Wed & Friday), for a minimum of 30 days. This data will be aggregated and analyzed by the ISS Project Team. If required, the students will be able to reprogram the payloads via the astronaut’s laptop. The new NanoLab experiments are expected to be operational during in early 2014.

Expected ISS program Outcomes
1. The Project Design and Development process from beginning to end
2. Project Management techniques
3. Work as a coordinated Small Project Start-up Team
4. Apply Physics, Space Physics, Chemistry, Math, Science, and Engineering principles
5. Interface with the press (e.g. VCS newspaper, yearbook, local TV and radio stations, newspapers and Internet website web-masters)
6. Make Technical Presentations at Cal Poly CubeSat Workshop to a world-wide audience
7. P-Basic Programming Skills
8. Basic Electronics and Breadboarding Skills
9. Basic Mechanical Design Concepts (CAD is optional)
10. Express PCBTM Skills (to design printed circuit boards)

The ISS Partner Organization Program, with it’s associated week-long hands-on workshop, gives high schools and training organizations involved in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), an opportunity to learn how to mentor students to design, build test, and qualify their own, unique science
projects for a 30-day, microgravity flight on the International Space Station.
These science projects
are 100% autonomous, computer controlled, science experiments called MicroLabs, that are 100% made by
students under the direction of their mentors. We train the mentors at our intensive, hands- on workshop at our facility in San Jose, California.
All materials to build three (3) complete MicroLabs along with complete test hardware software and documentation is provided.

Send experiment name, description, hypothesis and materials info to Mr. Saldana

Do a 15-minute PPT presentation show project name, team member organization, hypothesis, block diagram, flow chart and a physical demonstration of the engineering prototype. Preferably done by a student team of 1-2 students.

This will ​​​​be the back-up to the final flight unit and will be tested in San Jose on Dec 15