Lind student joins Washington Aerospace Scholars Program

Now in its seventh year, the Washington Aerospace Scholars (WAS) is pleased to announce that Matthew Brehm of Lind-Ritzville High School is a current participant in Phase One of the 2012-13 program.

The WAS program is a free, competitive, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education program for high school juniors from across Washington state and is affiliated with NASA Johnson Space Center’s National High School Aerospace Scholars program and with the University of Washington’s (UW) Department of Earth and Space Science.

Brehm was one of 285 student applicants from 117 different public, private and home-school organizations who applied in fall of 2012 to participate, and is now one of the 218 students still participating in the program. Having already completed five online lessons, Brehm will spend the next three months continuing to compete for one of the 160 slots available in a summer residency session held at The Museum of Flight this June and July.

WAS Phase One participants have the option to receive five UW credits in Space and Space Travel (ESS 102) upon their successful completion of the online WAS curriculum, and the course will satisfy the Natural World area of knowledge requirement for graduation from UW.

Washington Aerospace Scholars applications for the 2013-14 program cycle will be available late summer 2013 at http://www.museumofflight.org/was.