The pupil is one of nine from Otago Boys' High School who have made 10,000 Christmas truffles during the past year, and are about to start making another 10,000 to 15,000 in the next few weeks, as part of their ongoing fundraising effort to get to Nasa Space Camp in Florida next year.
The pupils need to raise about $7000 each so they can go to the United States Space and Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, as well as attending the Nasa Space Camp in Florida.
While at the space camp, they will undergo astronaut training, flight training and weightlessness training, as well as living in a module similar to the International Space Station.
They will also use physics and maths to design rockets.
Aaron said it had been challenging making all the Christmas truffles, cheese rolls, bacon butties, hot dogs, and cups of coffee, to raise funds during the past two years, but the trip would make it all worthwhile.
''This will be the opportunity of a lifetime, to see how astronauts are trained.''
Fellow pupil Max Edwards was excited about the tour and said it would put them in a position to see if they had ''the right stuff'' to become an astronaut.
''It's what everyone dreams of being when they're a kid.''
Tour organiser Pru Casey said the pupils would be accompanied on the tour by Otago Boys' High School maths and science teacher Dr Paul Fisher.
Ms Casey said the school hoped to do the trip every two years because it promoted the use of physics and maths in the real world.
The tour would take place over three and a-half weeks in April next year, she said.john.lewis@odt.co.nz
