Alabama School of Fine Arts - Birmingham, Alabama
Responsibilities: Develop a plan for the Raman Spectrometer. Students will become familiar with the Raman Spectrometer and how it is used and will complete practice tests at the University of Alabama prior to the field tests. They will help integrate the Raman plan into the overall mission plan and will help develop Raman-specific educational materials.
Mentor: Tom Wdowiak and David Agresti, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Facilitator: Shawn Wade
Flagstaff High School - Flagstaff, Arizona
Responsibilities: Perform image processing. Students will provide input to the mission plan regarding image acquisition during the Mars Yard and field tests. They will provide the St. Louis team with processed images to be included on the web page and the CD-ROM.
Mentor: Ken Herkenhoff
Assistant: Kevin McComish
Facilitators: Dolores Biggerstaff and Jennifer McFarland
Lansing High School - Ithaca, New York
Responsibilities: Develop the mission plan. Students will work together with students from Norwich High School and Sct Knuds Gymansium to determine science and engineering goals for the rover tests and with students from Nerinx Hall to develop educational materials. They will be responsible for making necessary changes per lessons learned during the Operational Readiness Tests (ORT) at the JPL Mars Yard.
Mentors: Steve Squyres and Jim Bell
Assistant: Diane Sherman
Facilitator: Lesley Foley
Nerinx Hall - St Louis, Missouri
Responsibilities: Maintain the web site. Students will post and archive data from the Operational Readiness Tests (ORT) at the JPL Mars Yard and the spring FIDO field tests. Following the completion of the spring field tests, they will archive the test data, educational materials, and field documentation provided by the other groups on a CD-ROM. They will also work with the other student teams to develop educational materials.
Mentor: Ray Arvidson, Washington University
Assistant: Cassie Dunham
Facilitator: Michele Perrin
Norwich High School - Ithaca, New York
Responsibilities: Develop the mission plan. Students will work together with students from Lansing High School and Sct Knuds Gymansium to determine science and engineering goals for the rover tests and with students from Nerinx Hall to develop educational materials. They will be responsible for making necessary changes per lessons learned during the Operational Readiness Tests (ORT) at the JPL Mars Yard.
Facilitators: Patti Giltner, Lorren Hotaling, and Sandy Sampson
Sct Knuds Gymnasium - Copenhagen, Denmark
Responsibilities: Develop the mission plan. Students will work together with students from Lansing High School and Norwich High School to determine science and engineering goals for the rover tests. They will be responsible for making necessary changes per lessons learned during the Operational Readiness Tests (ORT) at the JPL Mars Yard. The Copenhagen team will also prepare a plan for the use of magnets at the field tests.
Mentors: Jens Martin Knudsen and Morten Bo Madsen
Facilitator: Carsten Claussen