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Photographer Needed for Go For Launch! where students work with an Astronaut

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ORGANIZATION: HIGHER ORBITS FOUNDATION

  • 2 people are interested

Photographer needed to take general photos of Go For Launch! event at Deerfield High School for Middle School aged student program each day.

www.GoForLaunch.space

Go For Launch! brings together ~100 students to be mentored by Space & STEM professionals including an astronaut for 3 days. Each student team must define and design an experiment that they would like to see conducted in space, the teams will compete and a winner from each of the events will be chosen. The winning experiments will compete against others in their respective division and the overall winner of the division will have the experiment launched to the International Space Station for a month’s worth of data collection.

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About HIGHER ORBITS FOUNDATION

Location:

P.O. Box 4092, LEESBURG, VA 20177, US

Mission Statement

Higher Orbits is a non-profit with the mission to inspire and engage high-school students through the use of spaceflight, in hands-on, project based learning experiences that are designed to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) and prepare them for future academic and career success by building confidence, perseverance, teamwork, leadership, critical thinking, creativity, and communication skills.

Description

Higher Orbits is a small, 501(c)3 non-profit that uses spaceflight to promote science, technology, engineering, art and math while strengthening leadership, teamwork, and communication skills. Higher Orbits conducts Go For Launch! and Go For Launch! Full STEAM Ahead events across the country and partners with companies and organizations to achieve educational goals that launch the next generation of scientists, researchers and creators. Since being established in 2015 as a non-profit, we have launched 12 student designed experiments to space and/or the International Space Station. To learn more about how we inspire the next generation of STEMists, STEAMists and explorers, visit HigherOrbits.org.

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Community
Computers & Technology
Children & Youth, Community, Computers & Technology

WHEN

Thu Jun 30, 2016 - Sat Jul 02, 2016
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM

WHERE

1959 Waukegan RdDeerfield, IL 60015

(42.187214,-87.8542)
 

SKILLS

  • Photography
  • Social Media / Blogging
  • Interactive/Social Media/SEO

GOOD FOR

N/A

REQUIREMENTS

  • Any portion of any of the 3 days
  • Higher Orbits needs to be able to use any of the photos for marketing purposes

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