• An educational project allowing 3,000 schools and 100,000 students  to “connect” with the NASA Kepler Project
• Vision to provide motivation and tools to thousands of schools and students across the globe to “collaborate” on the “mission to discover habitable planets in the Milky Way galaxy”
• Open to anyone to help students and teachers that they know. This is an "open source" project and most sites are JOOMLA!-based

"Kepler will not find ET, but we are hoping to find ET's home," Bill Borucki said during the media briefing. "If we do find dozens of Earth-like planets in habitable zones, life may be common throughout the galaxy."

• Open to any school interested in participating
• School must have a committed teacher (any discipline – ie this is not just for science or astronomy studies)
• Ideally Grades 9-12
• Collaboration between teams
• Each team should include 3 schools
• 1 school in USA
• 2nd school in an English speaking (Non-USA) country
• 3rd school in non-English speaking country (willing to develop website in their language)

THE SCHOOL AND STUDENTS RECEIVE :

• Membership in the elite myKepler Project
• 3,360 schools will be each allocated a Kepler Field of View (FOV) sector to be the focus of their studies
• Membership in a 3 school “collaboration”team
• Communicate and collaborate internationally
• Develop friendships in other countries
• FREE membership in a “collaboration” web-based system