Kids Learning Club: Build Your Own Mars Helicopter

NASA has sent a helicopter to Mars! This helicopter is called Ingenuity and is designed to test whether or not flight is a good way to study distant bodies in space. In this activity, you will learn about this amazing feat of engineering as you build your own Mars helicopter model out of marshmallows and toothpicks.

Metro Library is excited to announce that our Ralph Ellison branch was one of 60 libraries nationwide that was awarded a grant with NASA@MyLibrary! Thanks to this grant, all locations will be able to share the resources and will have the opportunity to join in with the space-themed Beanstack challenge, programs, displays, and take-home kits. Stop by our info desk to find out more OR visit www.metrolibrary.org/NASA

The NASA @ My Library grant focuses on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWSP) which is scheduled to launch on December 25 with the first images due to arrive in May. The JWSP captures more of the light spectrum than traditional telescopes allowing us to see non-visible light, like infrared and x-rays, which will allow us to gain a better understanding of the universe.

NASA @ My Library is offered by the National Center for Interactive Learning (NCIL) at the Space Science Institute (SSI) in partnership with the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office, Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and Education Development Center (EDC). This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under cooperative agreement No. NNX16AE30A. This work was also assisted and supported by the Space Science Institute, which was the recipient of the cooperative agreement. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)and do not necessarily reflect the views of NASA or the Space Science Institute.