Seven Northshore students are among 160 juniors from across the state whose academic performance on Washington Aerospace Scholars (WAS) Phase One curriculum qualify them for Phase Two—WAS Summer Residency.
Those local students include Bothell High School’s Jessy Ha, along with Inglemoor High School’s Julian Bacon, Alex Bernard, Lilian Liang, Kristin Lie, Samuel Reed and Alex Yang.
Phase Two is a six-day summer residency experience at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Four teams of students work cooperatively to plan a human mission to Mars with support from professional engineers/scientists, university students and certificated educators.
WAS is a free competitive science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education program for Washington state high schools juniors. Its primary goal is to excite and prepare students to pursue career pathways in STEM fields using a distance-learning curriculum developed in partnership with NASA and the University of Washington.
