The Project Pioneer/Mars Millennium Project is an international collaboration initiave on which american and brazilian students use the internet as the primary mean of communication to develop a colony on Mars, the main objective of NASA's Mars Millennium Project.

This initiave is possible because of the efforts of professionals over this two countries, specially placed on the cities of Sao Paulo and New York. Here, you find the links to the schools that made this collaboration, as long as the experimentation of this idea, possible.

In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the school that is part of the Pioneer/Mars Project is Colegio Bandeirantes. It is a private secondary school which carries very strong programs in all subjects. Opened in 1934, Colegio Bandeirantes has been at the forefront of education since then. Its long-standing reputation not only draws students from many parts of the city but also from different states of Brazil. It is a co-educational, non-sectarian, privately funded institution which offers middle school and senior high programs to 2,770 students. It is a very competitive school and the students are ranked and placed according to the final average of the previous year. The students are college-oriented and regarded as high achievers.

In New York, Project Pioneer counts with the participation of two institutions Beacon School and the Institute for Learning Technology, from the Teachers College of Columbia University.

The Beacon School is a selective secondary public school on West 61st Street in New York City. It is a place where students are encouraged to work with computers and technology, not just to run educational software, but to write code, administer networks and troubleshoot hardware. Long on knowledge but short on cash, Beacon is a textbook example of how Linux and Open Source make the impossible possible in education.

Entering the 21st century, Americans embark on an era of historic change in which they are using new information technologies to renovate education and society for the betterment of humankind. The Institute for Learning Technologies seeks to help advance these changes by exerting educational leadership through innovative projects, seminal research, and enlightened counsel. It aims to nurture, in a sustained manner, the humane application of information technologies, expanding educational opportunity and achievement for all.