Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, today announced that it has donated DPO2012B oscilloscopes to 2013 NASA Student Launch Projects Challenge winning teams. This is the third year that Tektronix has donated oscilloscopes as major prizes to winning project teams. For 2013, oscilloscopes were awarded to Vanderbilt University for winning the 2013 NASA Student Launch Program Best Payload Design and to Tarleton University for winning the 2013 NASA Student Launch Program NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Payload Award.
The NASA Student Launch Projects challenges middle, high school and college students to design, build and launch a reusable rocket to one mile above ground level while carrying a scientific or engineering payload. Fifty-seven (57) teams of engineering, math and science students participated in the annual challenge, organized by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Twenty-one (21) middle and high school teams entered the non-competitive Student Launch Initiative, while thirty-six (36) college and university teams competed in the University Student Launch Initiative.
Vanderbilt has been selected for this award by NASA engineers for this highly competitive award for the third consecutive year. Details of their project can be viewed here.
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