The <i>YouTube</i> SpaceLab Competition
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Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2011
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:47.2 | Steve Merski here, it's December 12th, which means if you're 14 to 18 years old, you still have a couple of days left to enter the YouTube Space Lab competition. |
| 0:51.8 | Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariette de Christina is one of the judges. |
| 0:55.8 | She recently explained the competition to the ubiquitous Al Roker on his morning program |
| 1:00.8 | on the Weather Channel. |
| 1:03.4 | In an effort to inspire the next generation of scientists and astronauts, Google, YouTube, |
| 1:09.1 | and Lenovo have created a one-of-a-kind competition called Space Lab. It calls on high school students all around the world to design experiments that will actually be performed on the International Space Station. Mariettee, Christina, is the editor-in-chief of Scientific American and one of the judges in the competition. Mariet, good to see morning. Good morning. Good to see you. This is really exciting. |
| 1:27.9 | I mean, a one-of-a-kind competition. |
| 1:29.3 | Now, so how does this work exactly? |
| 1:31.7 | So kids think big, right? And if you think big, there's nothing bigger than International Space Station and looking to get your experiment up in space. So 14 to 18 year old kids who have a big idea can make a two-minute video and upload it to YouTube Space Lab and get that science experiment idea considered for actually launching on the International Space Station. |
| 1:52.5 | You had 14 million views to the space lab website, 5,500 experiments submitted so far. |
| 1:59.5 | You're part of this judging panel, which is a pretty impressive |
| 2:02.5 | panel. Tell us about that and how do you make the decision. Right. So judging is going to be |
| 2:06.6 | really great fun because of all these wonderful ideas. The students are sending ideas in physics |
| 2:11.6 | and also in biology to do on the International Space Station. The response has been completely |
| 2:16.7 | gratifying. Yes, I am one of the response has been completely gratifying. |
| 2:18.6 | Yes, I am one of the judges. |
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