Wilbur and Orville will be smiling as shoeboxes fill the skies over downtown Raleigh on December 15th . . .

Partners in Flight is a project begun in 2003 to prepare and inspire students to fly their dreams. We use NASA's awesome Shoebox Glider Challenge as a vehicle for engaging students in rigorous scientific inquiry enhanced by distance learning technologies.

Download a project description (.pdf) . . .
Preview the project rubric . . .
See NC Standards correlations . . ..
See Who Has Met the Challenge . . .