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Welcome to the Martian Constitution Wiki Project! This project was funded in part by the Lesher Foundation County Technology Academy Grant and the ESPACE Academy at Deer Valley High School in Antioch, California. Project leaders are Jeff Adkins and Allison Weihe, teachers in the ESPACE Academy.

The idea for this project came from a need to link learning across subjects within the academy structure. We wanted to facilitate a collaborative project that brought together both astronomy and government students in a meaningful way. After brainstorming, we came up with the idea of the creation of a Martian Constitution. In the future, if Mars is ever colonized, there will certainly be a need for a fundamental document that serves as the basis for law in such a colony. However, because the living conditions on Mars will be significantly different than those on Earth, it is supposed that a Martian Constitution will emphasize different elements as basic human rights.

The challenge for the students is to create a meaningful, logical document that takes into account the radically different environment on Mars. As such, the astronomy students will be tasked with creating a series of reference pages outlining the conditions for life on Mars. Subsequently, the government students will create a constitution taking these conditions into account.