Local Review Team Selects Finalists

The local review team which included consulting engineers as well as representatives from GLOBALFOUNDRIES and the Children’s Museum of Science and Technology has selected the three finalists from the proposals.  The finalists include Milton Terrace South Elementary School 5th grade students Dana Betti, Jordyn Catherall, and Kate Yager, and High School students Denise Croote and Troy Mackey who submitted the top experiment proposals.  The three proposals submitted to the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) include a proposal from Dana, Jordyn and Kate entitled “Development of Tilapia Fish Eggs in Space”. Their teachers are 5th grade instructors Megan Otten and Angelo D’Annibale. The High School proposals included one from Troy that he entitled “The Effect of Microgravity on Bacterial Reproduction” and one from Denise called “Effect of Penicillin in Microgravity”. Their advisers are Mary Lou Stern and Mary Ellen Kusnierz, both science instructors at the Ballston Spa High School.