Student artists from the Buffalo-Niagara Coalition of Schools are scientists and artists, too!

As part of this year's Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, students also designed Mission Patches, just like the commemorative patches that astronauts proudly wear on their space suits. These Mission Patches are drawn (by hand or computer) on paper: two selections from the Buffalo-Niagara Coalition will be flown to the International Space Station in June, along with the experiment developed by students from Wellsville Secondary School.

You and your family are cordially invited to view the Mission Patches, meet the student artists, and enjoy the lovely setting of the Ruben Santiago Hudson Fine Arts Center. We'll also honor the corporate sponsors who made WNY STEM Hub's participation in Mission 12 to the ISS possible.

RSVP by May 1.

Thank you to Buffalo-Niagara Coalition of Schools member Global Concepts Charter School for hosting this event.

The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) was developed by astrophysicist, Dr. Jeff Goldstein, who founded the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE). The SSEP is undertaken by NCESSE in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with DreamUp PBC NanoRacks, LLC, which work in partnership with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Stations as a National Laboratory. The program originated in 2010 to address national strategic needs in Workforce Development for the 21st Century designed to inspire the next generation of U.S. scientists & engineers. SSEP has had 13 flight opportunities involving 142 communities in the U.S. and Canada through the first thirteen flight opportunities, 74,680 grade 5-16 students were fully immersed in microgravity experiment design and proposal writing.