YouTube’s Space Lab Challenges Students to Design an Experiment for the International Space Station

NASA has partnered with Space Adventures and YouTube on a global competition that challenges 14- to 18-year-old students to design a science experiment that can be performed in space. The winning experiment will be conducted aboard the space station in 2012.

Students, either alone or in groups of up to three, are invited to submit a video describing their experiments to YouTube.com/SpaceLab. Six regional finalists will gather in the United States in March 2012 to experience a zero-gravity flight and receive other prizes. From the finalists, two global winners will be announced and will see their experiments performed in space and streamed online that summer. Additionally, the global winners will get to choose a unique space experience as a prize: either a trip to Japan to watch their experiment blast off to the space station, or a trip to Star City, Russia, for an authentic space training experience at the Russian cosmonaut facility.

Videos will be accepted through Dec. 7, 2011.

For more information about the challenge, visit http://www.youtube.com/spacelab.

For more information on NASA education programs, visit http://www.nasa.gov/education.