- NASA's planning on sending
astronauts back to the moon
that will lead
the next generation onto Mars.
- To accomplish that,
there needs to be
new solutions to new problems.
- We're gonna focus on
isolation.
(person) I like how cozy
our design is.
- High five.
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and this is where I live.
This is my room.
I love animals,
reading, cooking,
and spending time
with my family.
And my very favorite
hobbies are
soccer, exploring,
and building things.
My parents and I hope
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♪ ♪
- Got to put my mask on.
- I'm so excited to explore
the Bell Museum.
♪ ♪
- Today's the day.
♪ ♪
- We're at the Bell Museum
to learn about our project
and what we're trying
to figure out.
[laughs]
That made me flinch.
- My name is Nikki.
I'm from India,
and I like to read a lot.
And my favorite subject in STEM
is probably biology
and science.
- Oh, wow.
My name is Lily.
I'm an outdoor, active person.
I'm interested
by, like, chemistry
and also space and stuff.
Like, there's other life
out there too.
(automated voice)
Start dancing. Bow.
- My name is Amaya.
- My name is Amaya.
I like to be creative,
I like to go with the flow,
and I like botany
with, like, plants and stuff.
(automated voice)
Jump. Great job.
- There you go.
I haven't worked
with this team before,
so it's all very brand-new.
- I met Nikki before,
but we haven't worked together.
- I have no idea
what the project is yet,
but I'm excited
to find out what it is.
- Hi, ladies.
How are you?
(all) Good.
- My name is Nadia.
I'm a NASA Solar System
Ambassador.
- A Solar System Ambassador
educates kids on space travels
and experiments.
- You guys come from
different backgrounds
and you guys have never
worked together,
so this is a really good
example of just how NASA is
reaching out to bring different
perspectives into challenges.
- Having a wide variety
of perspectives in the team
is very important
because it contributes
new ideas to a solution.
- In the next decade,
NASA's planning on sending
astronauts and humans
back to the moon,
but also, eventually,
that will lead
the next generation onto Mars.
- Going from the moon to Mars
is a big deal
because it's very far away.
- And to accomplish that,
there needs to be new solutions
to new problems.
- So your mission
is to basically investigate
long-term space exploration
and the hazards
that come with that.
We'll get you started.
You'll speak with Sally,
and we'll catch up later.
- Awesome.
- Cool.
(Lily) Nadia suggested
that we would meet with sally
and learn about
the different hazards
of space flight
and going to Mars.
Oh, wow.
- It's so big.
- Whoa.
- Wow.
- Hi.
Welcome to the planetarium.
It's so good to have you.
I'm Sally.
(Amaya) Sally is an educator
at the Bell Museum.
- Today you're going to see
a preview of a new show
that the Bell Museum
is producing.
It's called
"Mars: The Ultimate Voyage."
- Sally's creating
a planetarium film
about the space hazards
of going to Mars.
- All right,
so let's go have a seat.
- The difference between
a planetarium film
and a regular film
is that the planetarium film
shows you different
perspectives and, like, views.
- The screen isn't flat,
so it's, like, a dome.
And it feels almost, like, D.
- It's still moving closer.
[laughter]
(Nikki) It's, like, immersing
you in the travel to Mars
and all the different problems
that arise while going there.
- So these are the challenges
you want to be
paying attention to.
(Nikki) There's an acronym
for the space hazards
and it's called RIDGE.
The R stands for radiation.
The I is for isolation.
D is for distance.
The G stands for the lack
of gravity in space.
E is for hostile environment.
Gosh.
- Oh, dang.
[applause]
- The film was really cool
and it made me feel like
I was moving with the film.
and it made me feel like
I was moving with the film.
(Nikki) I got, like,
a little bit nauseous
when I was seeing
all the stars move.
(Lily) It made me want
to find out more about
the different hazards of space
that they went over.
- Do any of those
sound familiar, like,
something that's not just
happening in space,
but might happen
down here on Earth?
- Yeah, like the isolation.
During COVID, like,
you couldn't go anywhere
and see anyone.
But it's similar,
but it's still different.
- So yeah, some of
the challenges aren't really
just for astronauts
out in space,
but they're important ones
to solve
sometimes for people
here on Earth.
In a couple weeks
we're gonna have a screening
of this planetarium show,
and for that,
you're gonna work on one
of these challenges that
you think you might have
some solutions to.
- We're gonna focus
on isolation
and coming up with solutions.
- It relates a lot
to what we've been through
for the past two years
in the COVID- pandemic
where we were all
in isolation.
- We are going to present
our project at a screening
of the planetarium
at the museum.
(all) One, two, three, Mars.
- Hello. I'm Nikki,
and I'm gonna show you
what I like to do.
I play volleyball.
Here I'm gonna show you
how I serve.
[whistle blows]
So today for lunch I made puri,
which is like fried bread.
And I made a mixed
vegetable curry.
Here it is.
Mmm, this is really good.
Mm, I'd probably rate it
a eight out of ten.
I like to play violin.
This is the D major scale.
[playing violin]
♪ ♪
Thanks for listening.
[applause]
- Today we're at Nikki's house
to brainstorm a little bit
about, like, what we know
about social isolation.
- What are some,
like, problems
that you guys have, like, had
with, like, isolation?
- The lack of change.
- Yeah.
- Like everything's the exact
same, like, every day.
- Just, like, being stuck
in the same, like, routine.
- I think it would be
beneficial to us
to go on the internet
and see what NASA has done
so far about these unknowns.
(Amaya) So we started
researching what's known
about isolation and then
we also kind of looked into
what is unknown
about isolation.
- So I found this really
cool website that NASA uses
to put down,
like, analog missions.
- An analog is basically like
just a test run.
- This one site that I found
is an analog mission
where it focuses on
the hazard of isolation
called HERA, Human Exploration
Research Analog.
(Lily) Maybe we can talk with
one of the HERA researchers
and see what they found out
about effects of isolation.
- I think that's a great idea.
- Yeah.
We are meeting Dr. Kim Seaton.
She is a psychologist at NASA.
She is a psychologist at NASA.
- Hi.
It's so great to see you.
- We've been looking into
the HERA mission,
so could you tell us
a little bit more about that?
(Kim) Excellent. Sure.
We have a crew.
Right now they are on
mission day today of days.
So they are living and working
inside that habitat
on Johnson Space Center.
- What do you think
are some key points
that we should focus on?
- HERA, the habitat,
is very cozy.
It's kind of like
a studio apartment.
One bedroom, one bathroom.
Very small.
And when you think about
a spacecraft like that,
there's very little privacy.
So the HERA crews,
they have their individual
crew quarters
and it's kind of like
a little one-person tent,
but there's no privacy.
There's no interior walls
separating them
and so if someone snores,
they're gonna hear it.
- It really does pose a problem
of how four crew members
usually, they don't have
any privacy
and they're basically
all open.
- Sleep deprivation,
that's a big one.
On the ISS,
they're orbiting the Earth,
so they see sunrises
and sunsets
about every minutes.
So that can be very disruptive
to the circadian rhythms.
- So while I was doing
some research,
I came across the fact
that astronauts use journals.
Can you explain a little bit
more on that?
- Oh, that was a great find.
Yeah, similar to other
explorers throughout history,
astronauts, many of them
have enjoyed journaling.
It's a way to reflect and learn
from their experience.
And it's also--it's--
it give the researchers a tool
to monitor behavior,
see their thoughts.
- So when can we check back
with you?
- How about we meet again
in a couple of weeks?
- That sounds great.
Thank you so much.
(all) Thank you.
- Thank you, girls.
Bye-bye.
(all) Bye.
- Hi. My name is Lily
and one of my hobbies
is playing my guitar.
[playing guitar]
♪ ♪
[cheering]
Another one of my hobbies
is soccer.
Hello. Another thing that
I like to do is read books.
Another hobby I like to do
is photo editing.
Let's talk about
what we learned.
- Yeah, we can go
for some solutions.
- The lack of privacy
in the spaceship,
since it's so small.
I had an idea that
you could put curtains up.
- Maybe curtains
and, like, noise machines.
You know, at REC centers
they have, like,
different rooms dedicated
to different things.
- What if there's, like,
a little, small space,
like, a mini booth and you can
just go in there
and be by yourself.
Like, maybe there's,
like, some noise-canceling
headphones in there.
- Yeah.
- I think, also,
changing the lighting.
Like, having fairy lights.
- Yeah.
- We're doing something called
a wellness booth,
- We're doing something called
a wellness booth,
which combines the problem
of privacy,
mental health,
and just happiness in general.
- When we're using the space,
maybe, like, we can film part
of it and just basically, like,
talk about what we're doing
and, like, reflect on it,
you know?
And then we can
come back and share it.
(Amaya) So our next step
is we're going to make
prototypes out of, like,
cardboard boxes.
- You have to do
a little bit of math here:
feet into thirds.
- Yeah.
- How many inches
is feet?
- .
- One wall size
is inches long.
- That looks right.
And then the other side.
- Yeah, we have to do
the same thing.
Like that.
So it's a confined space
just for you.
- Good job.
- All right, let's fold.
(Amaya) We're each gonna
take one home
and do little,
like, video diaries.
And then we can make this one
like this.
(Lily)
Our goal is to spend, like,
to minutes
in there each day.
And we're, like,
gonna customize it to our needs
and, like,
what we want in there.
- I think that'll help us
in the next phase
by mimicking
what the astronauts
would do.
(Amaya) I'm excited
to, like, tell my sister
to leave me alone and to, like,
give me some privacy.
- Yay.
- This was actually...
- There we go.
- This was a good one.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Day one of
the Angle mission.
- I remember
when I was sitting in there.
It was really small.
- After reading for minutes,
I just felt
more relaxed in here.
- Today, I decorated
the booth a little.
- it was really fun, like,
just to be down there
and just kind of
doing whatever.
- Today,
I didn't really do much,
but I did take
a really good -minute nap.
- Today, I'm going to be doing
some homework.
- Not much changed except
I went from, like,
a ton of energy
to a little energy.
- It's feeling
really cramped in here.
It's kind of, like, small,
but I think I'm gonna
take a nap in here today.
- Now, I just played
my ukulele,
and it was really nice,
actually,
'cause I just sort of got to,
like, reset and rewind.
♪ ♪
- This is my prototype.
- Oh, wow.
(Lily) Today, we're at
Nikki's house
and we are going to be
discussing
our different booths.
And then combining our ideas
into the final prototype.
- Did you feel like
you had, like, enough space?
- Yeah, you know, I could,
like, stretch out my legs
a little bit
and sit around comfortably.
I think my mood changed
after I used the booth.
Like, I just felt more,
like, calm and relaxed.
- So this is
what mine looked like.
I just wrote on the walls
mostly one day.
- Oh, I like the idea of, like,
putting quotes down.
- Mm-hmm, or just having, like,
conversations on the wall.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I drew, I wrote, I read,
I played my ukulele,
and I knitted.
- So here's my space.
Kind of decorated it with some,
like, washi tape.
I sat on the floor
with a pillow and then
I just kind of filled it
with things,
I just kind of filled it
with things,
like, books or blankets
or stuffed animals.
- What was one of the things
that didn't really work
that well in the booth?
- I guess, like,
just kind of, like, stretching.
- Mm, yeah.
Like, there wasn't
a ton of space.
Yeah.
- Yeah.
- We wanted our size
to be more inclusive
'cause the prototypes that we
made are just for, like, us.
You know, like,
-, -year-olds.
- The cardboard prototype
we have,
the wall--one wall size
is inches long.
Should we raise it
to or feet?
- Maybe, like, feet?
- Yeah.
- Not too much longer because
there's not a lot of room.
- We just sort of, like,
bounced ideas off of each other
and I don't think we had
any, like,
big, major disagreements.
We're just sort of, like,
going with the flow
and I feel like
we all worked together.
- Maybe wall number two could
be, like, the picture wall.
- Mm-hmm. Maybe spaces to write
on the wall if you want to.
We decided to use
a fold-down desk
and using a virtual window for
different, like, backgrounds
depending on what kind
of mood you're in.
- Since we might have,
like, a desk,
we should have a chair.
- Yeah.
(Nikki) I think they're great
teammates to work with.
They're very open-minded.
- Working with Lily and Nikki
so far has been great.
We make a good team
and, you know, teamwork makes
the dream work, so...
- It looks great.
- Yeah.
- So now, we're ready
to start building.
- All right, let's go.
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Suspenseful music.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
(Lily) The entire thing's
gonna be made
out of cardboard,
but to keep it together,
we're gonna have Velcro
and these little screws
that we can put in.
And then we can take them
back out too,
so we can reassemble it later.
It's trying to pull at this,
like, edge right here.
The most challenging part,
I think,
is figuring out
how to do it with cardboard.
- Cardboard isn't
really like wood.
Like, you can't just, like,
screw it and be done with it.
You actually have
to think about
how you should position it.
These little curvy thingies
in the middle of the cardboard,
that's
the corrugated part of it.
If it's vertical,
it will be stronger
than if it's horizontal
'cause then it will fold.
(Lily) Cardboard can be
your worst enemy
or your best friend.
[chuckles]
It's like, it's sturdier
than paper,
but when you're really
trying to, like, build it
and it bends where
you didn't want it to bend,
that can be very frustrating.
But we're figuring out
how to make it work.
There, it's like a little door.
See?
Ta-da!
- I think the most fun part
is constructing it
and then seeing
what'll happen at the end.
- All right.
- So now do you guys want
to put the roof on?
- Yeah.
- Sure.
- Hey.
- Hey.
[laughter]
- It's bending.
- Yeah.
- We're gonna need
to figure out,
after we screw them in,
how to deal with that.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- That's pretty good.
- Yeah.
- It looks like a house.
- Yeah.
- It is a house.
- We did good, you guys.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- High five.
[laughter]
- Tri-five.
- Tri-five.
- Tri-five.
- Hey, guys. It's Amaya.
I'm here at the lookout
on the High Bridge.
I really enjoy walking across
the High Bridge in the summer
and heading downtown.
I'm here with my mom.
We're running
some weekend errands.
I really enjoy spending
some time with my mom
and hanging out with her.
She's, like,
my best friend/mom.
This is my best friend,
Charlotte.
We're both in Girl Scouts.
- Hi.
- My mom is
our Girl Scout leader.
I've been in Girl Scouts
since I was five.
One of the traditions
in my household
is celebrating Galentine's Day.
We eat treats
and have lots of laughs.
I'm here with my sister.
- Hello.
- And we're both in Girl Scouts
and we're about to go
deliver some cookies.
I'll see you guys later.
- Oh, sorry.
- Like, bending a lot.
- It is.
- Today, we're working on
getting our booth finalized.
(Lily) And we're also
gonna see Nadia
and she's gonna give us
some feedback.
- So first, we kind of, like,
made the desk part.
- It's gonna be like that.
Wasn't it?
- In our plans we said
we were gonna have, like,
these triangles
held into the wall.
And then we made it
so that it would fold upward.
- All right,
how does that look?
- It looks good.
- How does it feel?
- It feels good.
I feel like I have enough
leg room underneath.
It's a little flimsy.
- Maybe we should add
three total.
One in the middle and then
two on the sides.
- Yeah.
- I am very impressed that
we were able to pull that off.
- Come on this way.
Today, was kind of like
a check-in with Nadia
to see how we're doing
with our design.
- What we created
was a wellness booth,
so this was
the first prototype.
- Is that what
the smiley faces are for?
To make you feel happy and...
- Yeah.
- Okay, okay. I like it.
- And in our new prototype...
- So you kind of want
to try it out?
- Sure. Yeah.
- We will fix the roof.
We promise.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
All right, great,
so this will definitely
accommodate my height.
(Amaya) It was, like,
really nice to, like,
get somebody's new
perspective on it.
- There's gonna be, like,
a virtual window.
- Okay.
- 'Cause when you're in space,
you only see space.
- Right.
- So you miss stuff on Earth,
so if you want to, like,
set it to different backgrounds
and stuff.
- And we're also thinking about
getting a diffuser to, like...
- To stimulate, like...
- Smells--the smells and stuff.
- Very cool.
That would be nice.
So you guys want to activate
the five senses, right?
- Yeah.
- That's definitely
very important for us.
Have you guys thought about
the situation with gravity?
As you know, astronauts
are experiencing micro-gravity,
so how will I be able to sit
down on this chair, relaxed?
(Nikki) Nadia told us
that we should be
more aware of how gravity
can affect our booth
and how we should
accommodate for it.
- So I love this table,
but I do--
but I did notice that the edges
of it, you know, rough.
(Lily) To have Nadia be able
to look at our progress
that we made so far,
it was really--
it was nice to see, like,
sort of how far we've come.
it was nice to see, like,
sort of how far we've come.
- Okay, so I know you guys have
a few more things to add,
and I don't want to throw
more things to add,
but I think
that it would be a great idea
to put together
a mission patch.
The fun thing about NASA
is that they put together
mission patches
for all of their missions.
And the even cooler thing
is that usually
the crew members design
their own mission patch.
- A NASA mission patch shows
that you're part of
a NASA mission and it shows
what kind of mission
you're on.
- So you guys can design that
and your museum visitors
will be able to see that
in an artistic way.
- Yeah.
- All right, cool.
I'm excited to see it.
♪ ♪
- There you go.
- Like, right here?
- Yeah, that looks good.
♪ ♪
- Will the lights work?
- A little more down.
Whoa, when were they?
[laughter]
- We're just seeing
how dark it would be.
- Ooh.
- Ooh.
(all) Ah.
[laughter]
(Amaya) I like how cozy
our design is.
- It feels like a home.
Like a mini home.
- Like, for the outer circle,
maybe it should have, like,
hazards of deep space.
(Lily) When we were
designing our mission patch,
we were thinking about what
words we wanted to incorporate
that sort of summed up
what we were trying to do.
Should we maybe write
"wellness"?
- Or, like, what if we, like,
wrote, like,
"wellness everywhere"?
- Yeah.
- Okay, guys,
here's the design.
- Oh, I like it.
- I do too.
We'll use our mission patch
to show everyone
that we're part of this mission
when we're presenting
our project to everyone.
- Today, we are working on
finalizing the booth.
- And also to ask Dr. Seaton
for, like, tips
on how to improve.
- Okay.
Amaya, can you push against it?
- Yeah.
- Okay, it looks good.
- Okay.
- So in our new roof design,
first, we changed the
direction of the corrugation
because we noticed that
the roof was folding a lot.
- Righty tighty, lefty loosey.
- Yup.
Oh, wait.
I was turning it the wrong way.
[chuckles]
We put some quotes on the wall,
too, next to the window,
which we also finished.
- I like this quote where it's,
"You can do hard things."
- Mm-hmm.
- Because that's just
empowering.
Although there were
some problems,
like, while building it,
I never really felt
that stressed,
'cause all of my teammates
and me,
we were in this together.
- They look like stars.
- They do, yeah.
- Right here.
- Today, we are meeting
Dr. Kim Seaton
to get a little bit
more feedback.
- Hi.
- Hi. It's so great
to see you again.
- So we're here
in our wellness booth.
- All right, well, I'm excited
to see what you've been up to.
Can you walk me through it?
- Here we have a seatbelt
and so when you are sitting
at the desk, you don't want
to be floating around.
- Nice. I love that.
- It felt really good to share
our project with Dr. Seaton,
- It felt really good to share
our project with Dr. Seaton,
because she works
with astronauts,
and she kind of knows
what they need.
(Nikki)
It felt very rewarding
because we spent
a lot of time on this.
- I am so impressed with
what y'all have put together.
You're gonna inspire people
to hopefully take
better care of themselves.
- Thank you so much
for meeting with us.
- Yeah, we really
appreciate it.
- Yeah, thank you.
We'll definitely send you
pictures of our presentation.
- Best of luck with your
presentation at the museum.
(all) Thank you.
(all) Bye.
- Does this look good?
- Yeah.
(Nikki)
I feel pretty relieved now
'cause now I don't
have to really do anything.
Except I just have to present
to the guests
in the Bell Museum, which now
I can look forward to.
- I think we're ready.
I think it's gonna be
really fun to show people
what we've worked on,
and I hope they like it.
- Come on in.
- Hello.
(Amaya) Some of the activities
that are a part of today
is a special screening of
"Mars: The Ultimate Voyage"
as well as we are
getting feedback
on our wellness booth.
(Nikki) We're taking some
of their feedback
on how to cope with isolation
and putting them all
on our wellness board.
(Lily) We will have them make
their own mission patch
like the ones
we have right here.
- We were researching
about the hazards
of deep space.
- We were thinking of
some solutions and ways
to kind of cope with isolation,
and that's where
the wellness booth idea
came in.
- It says,
"hazards of space flight"
'cause that was the problem
we were focusing on.
And then "wellness everywhere"
is the solution
'cause we want the astronauts
to be well.
Here are some stickers
of our mission patches.
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm. You're welcome.
(Nikki)
I hope that people learn that
they can make something
as simple as
a cardboard contraption
to help with space exploration
and that it's not just
astronauts
working to go to space.
It's, like, so many
different types of people
can be in NASA.
Right behind you,
there's a desk that folds down.
- That's cool.
- Yeah.
- Most of the guests today said
they really liked it.
- It did make me feel,
like, relaxed and calm.
- It can help people on Earth,
too, with mental health,
and we see how the pandemic
has effected people as well,
which is why I think
the project is so valuable.
- I think this is awesome.
You guys did an amazing job,
and I'm proud of you.
- The astronauts on our trip
to Mars would be lucky to have
such great things
to help them take a break.
- You guys should be
so proud of yourselves.
(Lily) Even though our project
was specific,
I think it's important
to practice wellness
wherever you are.
(Amaya) We've only just begun
the research,
so there's so much more that
can be explored and discovered.
- Wellness everywhere.
- It's super cool.
- Maybe when I grow up,
I'll probably work for NASA.
- We should take a photo
to send to Kim Seaton.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah.
[camera shutter clicks]
(girls)
♪ S-C-I-G-I-R-L-S ♪
- It feels great
to look at the stars
in a place my ancestors did.
in a place my ancestors did.
- Welcome to our star party.
(person) Say hi to the sky!
(person) Hi!
- Hold out a circle
with your arms,
and that's your circle
of observation.
(Lily) We're gonna focus
on isolation.
(Amaya) I like how cozy
our design is.
[all speaking Spanish]
[cheering]
- Would you girls call that
a success?
(all) Yeah.
(person)
We're like NASA girls!
- Whoo!
- We're NASciGirls.
♪ ♪
(Izzie)
Funding for "SciGirls"
is made possible by NASA.
NASA inspires the future
generation
of space explorers
and scientists
to engage in the science,
technology, engineering,
and math
that is the foundation
of NASA's mission success.
Additional funding
is provided by:
PPG Foundation aims to bring
color and brightness
to communities
around the world.
♪ ♪
(girls)
♪ S-C-I-G-I-R-L-S ♪
06x02 - Making Space
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Each episode depicts the STEM-themed activities of a group of middle-school girls including engineering a mini-wind farm, creating a turtle habitat, designing an electronic dress, and more.
Each episode depicts the STEM-themed activities of a group of middle-school girls including engineering a mini-wind farm, creating a turtle habitat, designing an electronic dress, and more.