Students understand when a project is real. If they know their contributions will make a real difference, they work harder and develop stronger ownership of the project. Through contribution students do work which the partner will actually use. Students take what they learn and teach other students in their school, travel to middle and elementary schools, and go out to teach the community. When students are challenged to teach the next generation of students, they start to think about the subject in a different light.
Teaching is an effective way to learn a subject.
For each of the above methods of motivation, CSLP has several examples of activities in the appendix of the CSLP handbook, available on the CSLP curriculum website . In the space industry most missions follow a phased approach which brings the mission from concept through launch and operations. In September we will start in the concept phase and progress into the design phase mid October. In mid January we will enter into the development phase and the integration and test phase in mid March. Due to the Triana schedule we will not enter the launch and early orbit phase until the following year.