A handmade auger is displayed with a fly ash and wax brick it produced, a possible building material on the moon, on a table in an advanced engineering class at Gallatin High School on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Cody Wilkins pours fly ash and wax into a prototype of a brick making device to be used by lunar colonies in an advanced engineering class at Gallatin High School on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Kiedis MacFarlane looks at classmate Trey Kimm as Sam Stewart takes a turn on a computer during an advanced engineering class at Gallatin High School on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Trey Kim pushes a lunar scooter prototype that he designed with classmates in an advanced engineering class on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Sam Stewart pulls up a 3D rendering of a wheel for a lunar scooter that he designed with his classmates in an advanced engineering class on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School senior Trey Kimm holds up 3D printed wheel he designed with his classmates for a scooter to be used on the moon in an advanced engineering class at on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Cody Wilkins uses a thermal camera to look at the temperatures of a brick making prototype for future lunar civilizations during an advanced engineering class at on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Cody Wilkins pours fly ash and wax into a prototype of a brick making device to be used by lunar colonies in an advanced engineering class at Gallatin High School on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
A handmade auger is displayed with a fly ash and wax brick it produced, a possible building material on the moon, on a table in an advanced engineering class at Gallatin High School on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Cody Wilkins pours fly ash and wax into a prototype of a brick making device to be used by lunar colonies in an advanced engineering class at Gallatin High School on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Kiedis MacFarlane looks at classmate Trey Kimm as Sam Stewart takes a turn on a computer during an advanced engineering class at Gallatin High School on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Trey Kim pushes a lunar scooter prototype that he designed with classmates in an advanced engineering class on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Sam Stewart pulls up a 3D rendering of a wheel for a lunar scooter that he designed with his classmates in an advanced engineering class on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School senior Trey Kimm holds up 3D printed wheel he designed with his classmates for a scooter to be used on the moon in an advanced engineering class at on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Cody Wilkins uses a thermal camera to look at the temperatures of a brick making prototype for future lunar civilizations during an advanced engineering class at on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
Gallatin High School student Cody Wilkins pours fly ash and wax into a prototype of a brick making device to be used by lunar colonies in an advanced engineering class at Gallatin High School on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Two groups of students from the class will be taking their projects to Houston, Texas to show NASA engineers as finalists in a NASA’s HUNCH program.
A NASA scientist walks up to a high-schooler and asks him how astronauts could play Dungeons and Dragons in zero gravity. It sounds like the start of a joke, but students at both Bozeman high schools this year had the opportunity to solve NASA problems for a chance to see their solutions implemented in space.
Four groups of students are heading to Houston in a few weeks to present projects as part of the NASA HUNCH program.
HUNCH (High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware) is a nationwide program where NASA identifies problems they have in their flight programs and frames them for high school kids.
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