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computer to JPC.  For the second half of the mission, the data transfer from the Windows NT computer to JPL was done automatically.

8.2.2 Participating Middle Schools
Fourteen additiona lschools joined the KidSat team for STS-81.  Some of these schools were included through their collaborations with NASA Centers.
            Table 9: Middle Schools Participating in STS-81

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|School                                    City, State, or Country     |
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|Bennett Middle School                     Salisbury, Maryland         |
|Buist Academy                             Charleston, South Carolina  |
|Canford School                            Dorset, England             |
|Canton Middle School                      Baltimore, Maryland         |
|Millard Central Middle School             Omaha, Nebraska             |
|Collinwood Middle School                  Cleveland, Ohio             |
|Costano Middle School                     Palo Alto, California       |
|Crittendon Middle School                  Newport News, Virginia      |
|Gompers Secondary School                  San Diego, California       |
|Kearsney College                          Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa|
|Laing                                     Pleasant, South Carolina    |
|Lewis Middle School                       San Diego, California       |
|Olive Pierce Middle School                Ramona, California          |
|Ronald McNair Magnet School               Cocoa, Florida              |
|Washington Accelerated Learning Center    Pasadena, California        |
|Webster Magnet School                     Webster, Texas              |
|York County Middle School                 Yorktown, Virginia          |
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8.2.3 Results
Not only were 540 great photographs of Earth acquired during STS-81, but KidSat won some prestigious awards for hard work and effort!  One of these awards was the FEDnet Webbie Award for the Most Innovative Web site.  Another award KidSat was a finalist of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award in Education and Academia.


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