The site features official entry forms, and newly updated, revised, and expanded Educator's Resource Guides that help teachers involve their students with the latest NASA discoveries. In the 21 st century many more of us may be living and working in space and some of these questions will be a lot closer to home than we might imagine. NSIP presents opportunities for students and teachers to expand their horizons by considering these and other questions about the future. NSIP supports national education standards for science, mathematics, technology, and geography. NSIP's five areas of investigation present wonderful opportunities for students to learn science by doing science.
All students submitting qualified entries receive a certificate of participation.
High school winners and their teachers win a trip to present their investigations during the National NSIP Symposium, to be held in May 2001 at one of ten NASA Field Centers. Space Flight Opportunity winners and their teachers receive a trip to Student Flight Week at NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Middle school national winners head for Space Camp, and elementary and middle school NASA Center winners receive a NASA presentation at their school. Electronic versions of all NSIP materials are available on the web site.