Newark, NJ students win NSIP Award
June 18, 2001 - In the Watching Earth Change competition, grades 5-8, students took third place in
NASA's NSIP Competition (nsip.net). From the Ann Street School, a National
Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, students wrote about how satellite imagery
changed over time during the migration of specific birds during spring. Diane
Castelo-Branco, Maria Calvache, Mario Fuentes, and Peter Brandao are 7th and
8th graders. English is a second language to Portugese, Spanish, Russian and Polish
for these and other students from Ann Street School, a close-knit inner-city public
school in Newark.
Signals of Spring, funded by NASA, allows students to utilize earth imagery to
explain the migratory movement of animals being tracked by satellite. The student
winners focused their investigations on Snoopy the Osprey and Zoe the Sandhill
Crane. The web site for the investigations and the animal tracking is:
www.signalsofspring.com
Signals of Spring was designed for inner-city schools to give students a sense of
remote sensing and larger environmental perspectives. Inquiries about participation
during Spring 2002 can be made by calling 800.707.8519, or on the web site.
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