St Clare's College NASA Experience
Five St Clare's College seniors described travelling to Houston to participate in the NASA HASSE Space School as a dream come true, transcending space and STEM, empowering the young women to travel independently, learn to adjust to new situations and develop leadership skills.
The school closely simulated astronaut training with projects, rocket building, heat shield and habitat construction, robotics, neutral buoyancy training with SCUBA gear and the common elements of sleep deprivation all into crammed into two weeks.
Highlights included seeing a plasma rocket engine up close, building a two stage rocket and launching it and meeting amazing people. The St Clare’s students came away with two of the three prizes of the school with their team mates from Canberra Girls Grammar School.