Survival Gardening on Mars in the Virtual Reality Lab of the Ice Habitat

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Badge Objectives

Your students will:

Learn about virtual reality (VR) and other technologies that influence society through their application by scientists and engineers at NASA. (HS-Connections to ETS)
Analyze the global challenges of inhabiting Mars by identifying the criteria and constraints found through research on the Earth and Mars systems. (HS-ETS1-1)
Draw or construct a spreadsheet comparing differences between Earth and Mars. (HSS-ESS1 & HS-CC – systems and system models)
Using VR in the given habitat, analyze elements for sustainability. (HS-ETS1-4)

An introduction to your mission from Astronaut, Anima Patil-Sable

Who constructed

this badge?

The team effort and collaboration between many professionals in different disciplines aligned in the common topic of virtual reality (VR) / augmented reality (AR) and this educational badge. Each party came from a different academic and/or professional background, such as education, engineering, art & design, social work, and architecture & construction, and were brought together with the common interest of this project. This team provides an example of how diverse the STEM educational programs can be and how common threads are intertwined and can be focused on special topics. For your reference, the following links share the background of each team member with their appropriate training and areas of interest.

Dr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz

Graduate Students:

Dante Cash

Nathanael Loden

Tejasvi Madgulkar

Varun Siddaraju

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