Team members perform different roles. Teams can distribute roles among team members as appropriate. However, successful teams identify the following:
- Teacher 1: Principal Investigator:
- Responsible for monitoring team progress and making sure all deadlines are met.
- Responsible for project implementation within the team.
- Responsible for addressing problems, concerns or questions raised by opportunity staff.
- Responsible for managing all communications between NASA and the flight team (including NASA mentor)
- Assist in writing Test Equipment Data Package (TEDP)
- All Teachers: Mission Specialists:
- Responsible for the project and the rest of the school, community, and the local press, etc.
- Responsible for contributing to the successful completion of project (including participation in writing the proposal, making sure project is built and functional, flying project, and writing final report).
- Other duties as assigned (project leader, materials specialist (scrounge), ground based research team, alternate contact, project historian or documentation specialist, project status writer, follow-on and outreach specialist, community liaison or project administration).
- Integrate the investigation into the curriculum.
- Collaborate on the final report.
- All members of the team will be responsible for updating and maintaining their e-Folio.
- NASA Mentor
- Give advice and provide direction.
- Monitor the investigation’s progress.
- Assess the team’s understanding of the investigation.
- Responsible for writing the TEDP with help from the flight team.
- Evaluate the safety aspects of the investigation.
- Respond to team questions and suggest resources for the team.
- The mentor can recommend grounding the investigation if safety or other issues arise.
- Visit the flight team’s NES School before TEDP deadline
- Alternate Teacher (Mission Specialist)
- This teacher will fly in the event that one of the primary educators is unable to fly.
- Same responsibilities as described in the Mission Specialist section, above.
- Must attend all events and submit all paperwork as the flight team.
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