Mission to Mars is a very different kind of culmination.  Your daughters, in crews of 9 students, will enter a 3 hour long simulation which focuses on team work and the skills they have been honing during second term, such as communication, electronics, hydroponics, robotics programming and much more.

Mission to Mars is scheduled for March 16th, 2006.  There will be four shifts: 9am-noon, 1-4pm, 5-8pm and 9pm-midnight.  Crew schedules will be posted on this site closer to launch.  Please note there is no regular class on launch day and the following day is Head's Holiday.  If you have a significant conflict and know that your student could not participate during one of these shifts, please contact MM as soon as possible.  We will make every attempt to honor such requests.

You are invited to attend the Mission to Mars.  We recommend guests arrive with their astronaut 15 minutes before the scheduled launch.  There will be a press conference for guests to ask questions and find out more about the preparations leading up to the mission.  You are welcome to stay for the length of the mission, but many guests of astronauts choose to leave and come back for the final 30 minutes in order to watch the landing and greet their astronaut as they return home from a long mission.

Funds for the improvement of this year's Mission to Mars are thanks to the generosity of Toyota Tapestry, who awarded SGS a grant of $10,000 for this project.  Learn more about Toyota TAPESTRY.