



student spaceflight
experiments program (ssep)
mission 16
to the international space station (ISS)
As part of a PICK Education research collaboration, Ector County ISD (ECISD) was selected to participate in SSEP Mission 16 to the ISS, and is a part of 24 participating communities in 3 countries; USA, Canada and Ukraine. This will be ECISD's third mission in the SSEP and the Mission Patch Art and Design Competition.
SSEP was designed as a model U.S. national Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education initiative, the program gives students across a participating community the ability to design and propose real microgravity experiments to fly in low Earth orbit (experiments conducted in a “weightless” environment).
The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program [or SSEP] is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with NanoRacksLLC, which is working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of theInternational Space Station as a National Laboratory.
STAY TUNED
FOR OUR FUTURE LAUNCH!
selected experiment
for flight
December 16, 2021 (Tentatively)
National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE)
Final Proposal Selection
selected mission art patch
for flight
February 2022
Finalist Selection
Experiment Launch Date:
TBD
Mission Patch Launch Date:
TBD

mission 12
selected experiment
for flight
The Efficacy of Ideonella Sakaiensis in a Microgravity Environment
Principal Investigator:
Deidre Morales
Collaborators:
Devin Arriaga, Fabian Carrasco,
Francis Dapanas, Mason Driggers,
Faith Eleby, Damien Galindo,
Kobe Hernandez, Wendy Hernandez, Leodegario Lopez,
Juandedios Mendoza,
Yazlin Romero, Gracielle Velasco
Teacher Facilitator:
Elizabeth Gray

mission 13
selected experiment
for flight
A Novel Way to Treat a Cancer with C. sporogenes in Microgravity
Co-Principal Investigators:
Maryam Akram, Sydney Richardson
Co-Investigators:
Eva Brower, Aidan Gomez, Maison Leet, Jean Machado Torres
Co-Teacher Facilitators:
Courtney Smith and Priscilla Torres

mission 12
selected art patch
for flight
Secondary Winner:
Clara Long
Elementary Winner:
Paisley Valenzuela

mission 13
selected art patch
for flight
Secondary Winner:
Amaya Villanueva
Elementary Winner:
Sofia Patino