National High School Science Students Honored by The Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards

MOFFETT FIELD, CA--(Marketwire - April 7, 2009) - The Conrad Foundation, in partnership with NASA Ames Research Center, today announced the winners of The Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards, a competition for high school students to design new products to facilitate commercial success in personal spaceflight, lunar exploration or renewable energy. The winning teams in each category were:

Personal Spaceflight:

1st -- Final Frontier Apparel -- Milken Community High School, Los Angeles, CA.

2nd -- Gadget -- Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, Illinois

Lunar Exploration:

1st -- ALGAE -- Tekna Theos Incorporated, Orange Park, Florida

2nd -- We Miss Pluto -- New Horizons Governor's School, Hampton, Virginia

3rd -- MAST -- Community High School, Los Angeles, CA.

Renewable Energy:

1st -- Harwell Arsturas Labs -- Cinco Ranch High School, Katy, Texas

2nd -- BioH -- North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, North Carolina

3rd -- DCs Army -- The Haverford School, Haverford, Pennsylvania

The winners were chosen from twenty-one finalist teams that traveled to the annual Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards' Innovation Generation Summit, which took place April 2-4, 2009 at the NASA Ames Conference Center in Moffett Field, California.

All teams have the opportunity to raise additional funds to further the development of their projects. Information about each team, project and how to donate can be found on the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award official website: www.conradawards.org.

About The Conrad Foundation

The Conrad Foundation is a non-profit organization built upon astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad's history of innovation and entrepreneurship. Pete's legacy continues through the Foundation's rich programs that combine education and entrepreneurship in a revolutionary model of competition. By providing students with the tools, resources and opportunities to innovate in science and technology, we connect the most creative students with real-world entrepreneurial ventures. The Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award challenges students to create product concepts in specific fields of interest that can be taken to the commercial marketplace. For more information, visit conradfoundation.org.

About the Spirit of Innovation Awards

The Spirit of Innovation Awards and Innovation Generation Summit are presented by the Conrad Foundation in partnership with the NASA Ames Research Center. The teams participating in the Conrad Awards program at the Innovation Generation Summit are designing the future.