Five local students have been accepted into Phase One of this year’s Washington Aerospace Scholars Program at the Museum of Flight.
Affiliated with NASA and the University of Washington, the program is a free, competitive, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) program for high school juniors from across the state.
This year’s participants include Emma Fraley of Eastside Catholic High School, Samhita Karnati of Redmond High School, Kevin Liu and Zachary Freedel of Skyline High School and Cody Sheffels of Eastlake High School.
These students are among the 285 student applicants from 117 different public, private and home-school organizations who applied earlier this year and is now one of the 218 students still participating in the program.
Having already completed five online lessons, they 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.
Applications for the 2013-14 program will be available late summer 2013 at www.museumofflight.org/was. Participants must be high school juniors, United States citizens and Washington State residents with a 3.0 minimum grade-point-average.
