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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |School City, State, or Country | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| |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 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 102