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Rome students selected to compete in NASA competition

Story Created: Mar 20, 2010 at 12:40 PM EDT

Story Updated: Mar 20, 2010 at 7:09 PM EDT

ROME, N.Y. (WKTV) - A team of 5th through 8th graders from Rome's elementary schools have been chosen to compete in a national "NASA" science contest. The youngsters designed a water recycling system that could be used on the moon in the event there are astronauts living there for extended periods of time.

Saturday morning, The Children's Museum of History, Science and Technology in Utica unveiled the local team of kids that actually calls themselves "NASSA", with two s's. NASSA stands for the "Neighborhood After School Science Association".

NASSA is just one of twenty groups of kids selected nationally to compete in the contest. Next up, the group will present a PowerPoint presentation via webcam to NASA, with one s, on April 12th.