Edison Magnet School Students To Visit NASA As App Challenge Winners

Jan 02, 2024

EDISON, NJ – Students from Edison Academy Magnet School recently participated in an app challenge and after emerging as the top team, they will be visiting NASA to meet industry leaders and present their work to scientists.

Team Ad Lunam from Middlesex County's Edison Academy Magnet School was selected as the top team for NASA's App Development Challenge (ADC).

The team and their lead teacher will travel to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston April 12-14.

The challenge asked middle and high school students to find solutions to technical problems facing future deep space exploration missions.

Team Ad Lunum worked for over 10 weeks to develop an application to visualize the South Pole region of the moon and display essential navigation and communication information for possible use in future Artemis mission planning and training activities.

They were selected as a Top Team by an interview panel including engineers and scientists working with NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) team, officials said.

Led by Johnson's Office of STEM Engagement, the coding challenge is one of NASA's Artemis Student Challenges designed to build foundational knowledge and introduce students to topics, techniques, and technologies critical to the success of the agency's Artemis program.

NASA's SCaN program enables more than 100 NASA and non-NASA missions by managing the Near Space and Deep Space Networks, ensuring continuous communications for all NASA programs, and supports the research and development of cutting-edge space technologies, such as optical and quantum communications.

To learn more about NASA's Next Gen STEM project visit: www.nasa.gov/stem/nextgenstem.

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