{"id":11004,"date":"2018-01-25T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:45:05","slug":"mission-to-mars-project-at-travis-ranch-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=11004","title":{"rendered":"Mission to Mars project at Travis Ranch School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Ranch School eighth grade science students recently participated in the &#8220;Mission to Mars&#8221; project to culminate their study of Forces and Motion.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Trailblazers started by learning about the challenges that NASA\/JPL engineers faced in order to land the Curiosity rover on Mars. From there, they built their own bottle rockets which launched into the air and ejected a prototype lander which housed a raw egg. Their objective was to land the egg &#8220;cargo&#8221; safely back on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The final part of the project was to create a professional business presentation with the goal of trying to obtain investment money to build their lander full-scale. Students presented to a panel of judges &#8220;Shark Tank&#8221; style. Several of the judges were community members\u00a0ranging from entrepreneurs, to a Boeing rocket and satellite contractor, to a general counsel for a Fortune 500 company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Travis-Ranch-Mission-to-Mars-1-19-18-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11006\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Travis-Ranch-Mission-to-Mars-1-19-18-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Travis students.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Travis-Ranch-Mission-to-Mars-1-19-18-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Travis-Ranch-Mission-to-Mars-1-19-18-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Travis-Ranch-Mission-to-Mars-1-19-18-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Ranch School eighth grade science students recently participated in the &#8220;Mission to Mars&#8221; project to culminate their study of Forces and Motion. The\u00a0Trailblazers started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}