Seminole SECME and National Honor Society students at Seminole Ridge hosted a blood drive Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Our theme “GIVE BLOOD—IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE” spotlighted students’ achievement in science, tech, engineering, and math (STEM) classes.
Florida's Blood Centers donates ~$20 per unit of blood collected to scholarship assistance for students attending colleges, institutions, and technical centers. And for every pint of blood donated, SECME students launched a water bottle rocket—a two-liter soda bottle filled with compressed air and water. We collected 165 pints, launched 200 rockets, saving almost 500 lives and raising over $3000. Go Hawk Heroes!
As SECME students launched hydro rockets into suborbital flight, their names orbited high overhead, part of NASA’s latest shuttle mission STS-129. Last spring, SECME co-captain Aleen Touma lead the collection of the Class of 2010 names. Seminole Ridge joined with more than 500 other schools worldwide to sign posters for Student Signatures in Space, sponsored by NASA and Lockheed Martin.
Participating schools received Embrace Space posters for student signing, and Lockheed Martin scanned their signatures onto a disk flown aboard space shuttle Atlantis. They will be returned for permanent display along with a flight certificate and a photo of the mission crew.
If you would like more information, please contact Seminole SECME school coordinator Erich Landstrom at (561) 422-2600.
