Cast your vote for "Spirit of Innovation" Student awards

The spirit of innovation award honors the memory of Pete Conrad

The spirit of innovation awards is a wonderful competition, the challenges teams of high school students, innovative products with science, technology and entrepreneurship, to twenty-first century, to solve real problems. Right now, the student teams are in the fight to top pick of this week as public vote opens in the Conrad Foundation (named in memory of Apollo astronaut Edwin Pete Conrad) spirit of innovation people's choice awards, so you check out the different teams and voting. But do it now: public voting is going only through is April 17.

"Science and technology studies improve lives around the world, and expand our reach way of it," said Pete Worden, Director of NASA Ames Research Center. "People's choice awards is an opportunity for the public to demonstrate student innovators fresh and exciting developments in these areas." "There is the chance to participate in a program that our future benefits everyone."

Konrad was commander of the Apollo 12 and the third man to walk on the moon. He had a learning disability, but earn a scholarship to Princeton and lead a mission to the moon.

The year's people's choice champion will be announced on Sunday, may 1 during the closing ceremony of the 2011 Innovation Summit of the NASA Ames Research Center. The Summit is April 28: May 1, the culmination of the spirit of innovation awards a student teams present their products enterprisers, scientists and industry professionals, and next in the competition for $5,000 grants. The people's choice will be voting as 10 percent of the final assessment score for these scholarships are integrated.

Last year, team to the rock and its solar flare brought nutrition bar won people's choice award. This year the team, the choice most people accumulate votes in each of the challenge
Categories aerospace exploration, clean energy and cyber security-$ 250 are awarded. To meet this year's team, you can explore the innovations and cast your vote for favorite, this link.

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