A team of students from Casa Grande Union High School have been selected to participate in the NASA Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone (GLEE) 2023 project. This project is a part of the NASA Artemis Student Challenge program with the purpose of inspiring the next generation, the Artemis Generation, through participation in the next step in space exploration. GLEE is administered for NASA by the Colorado Space Grant Consortium and the University of Colorado, Boulder, through an Artemis Core Technologies Grant.
The GLEE 2023 project is designed to be a catalyst for a new generation of space missions and explorers. This scientific and technological mission to the Moon will deploy 500 LunaSats to the lunar surface to conduct local and distributed science missions. Each LunaSat includes a suite of sensors that make it capable of operating on the surface of the Moon.
The students will learn how to integrate the sensor suite, which includes temperature sensors, accelerometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes and radiation sensors, and program the LunaSat for a mission of their own design. The CGUHS team will travel to the University of Colorado, Boulder, in October for an in-person workshop. Additional funding for participation in this project will be provided by the Arizona/NASA Space Grant Program at the University of Arizona.
Post-workshop, in addition to developing a LunaSat, the team will be tasked with community outreach and being LunaSat Assistants during future remote workshops. The team consists of junior Ivanna Perez and sophomore Sophia Jorda. The team leader is John Morris, CGUHS Engineering & Mathematics Teacher.