Student Spaceflight Experiment Program

K-5th Grade Patch Design Competition

Patch Requirements
Your patch must meet these
requirements to be entered into
the competition.
NO LARGER THAN 3.5-INCH BY 3.5INCH (You may use the space below
which is this size or you may submit on
separate paper.)

NO CARD STOCK OR CARDBOARD

BLACK AND WHITE OR FULL-COLOR

Parent/Guardian
Permission

SSEP Background

ONLY THE PAPER AND THE INKNO

MULTIPLE LAYERS OF PAPER GLUED

Approximately 300 fifth and sixth grade

I,

ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER

students in NISD are writing proposals

(parent/guardian), give permission for my

to have their experiments flown onboard

child ___________________________ to

the International Space Station in the

participate

spring of 2015. The students experi-

Design Competition. I understand that all

SPACEFLIGHT EXPERIMENT PRO-

ments must fit inside a 6-inch by 1/2-

requirements must be met in order to

GRAM

inch tube (pictured above, held by astro-

qualify, that the design must be submitted

naut Koichi Wakata). Students have

to the campus art teacher by the due

worked with researchers and have done

date, that if my childs design is selected it

their own research to have

will be posted as a .jpg image to the

enough background information

SSEP web site, NISD web sites, may be

to design an experiment that will

used for publicity purposes by NISD, and

be conducted on Earth and on

will be flown onboard the International

the ISS in a microgravity envi-

Space Station in the spring of 2015.

DESIGN SHOULD REFLECT PRIDE IN

THE NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY AND
PARTICIPATION IN THE STUDENT

DUE: DEC. 5, 2014

____________________________

in

the

K-5

SSEP

Patch

ronment. One of the proposed

experiments from NISD will fly
onboard the ISS along with a
winning patch design from the
6th-12th grade competition and
one from the K-5 competition.

Signed:
________________________________
Parent/Guardian signature
________________________________
Date
________________________________
School
________________________________
Parent Email or Phone Number

QUESTIONS CAN BE DIRECTED TO YOUR ART TEACHER OR

AMANDA.EWENSON@NISD.NET.