Two Redmond High School students have been accepted into the Washington Aerospace Scholars (WAS) program.

Benjamin Keller and Edward Zhang are among 287 juniors from across the state who will be participating in the distance-learning program with a NASA-designed curriculum covering the history of space exploration, the space shuttle, the International Space Station, the moon, and Mars.

From January through May, Keller and Zhang will complete ten lessons — submitting quizzes, math solutions, essays, and graphics concerning these topics every other week. They will also independently select a topic of interest for a final project combining an essay with a graphic. Based on their scores on the Phase One curriculum, up to 160 of the top performing students will be invited to an all-expense-paid summer residency at The Museum of Flight in Seattle.