BLUEPRINT FOR TOMORROW

The countdown to a new century provides a unique opportunity to engage America's youth in charting a course for the future. The Mars Millennium Project, an official White House Millennium Council Youth Initiative, challenges students across the nation to design a community yet to be imagined - for the planet Mars.

The interdisciplinary learning project will engage kindergarten through high-school students in classrooms and youth groups throughout the United States. Working in teams with educators, community leaders and professionals in many fields, hundreds of thousands of young people will weave the arts, sciences, and humanities into an exploration of their own communities.They will then take the best of the past and present, and apply what they have learned to the future. The result; a new community - one that is scientifically sound and offers a high quality of life - and one in which they would be proud to live.

Guiding the Mars Millennium Project are the U.S. Department of Education, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the J. Paul Getty Trust. A host of public and private organizations along with some of the nation's leading corporations and businesses will also take part, making this project a true "community" effort.

PICTURE THE FUTURE

Imagine creating a village for 100 transplanted earthlings on Mars in the year 2030. This national Mars Millennium Project will inspire debate, in-depth research and the quest for new ideas revolving around the White House Millennium Council's central theme, "Honor the Past - Imagine the Future." Throughout the course of the project, students will pose questions and find solutions to important issues that affect our lives now and for generations to come.

Extracted form the Official Mars Millenium Project website.