Monthly Archives: April 2011

The 5th grade team loaded the control unit at the school this morning. They received a final shipment of eggs from AmeriCulture and went right to work preparing samples for the MDA control unit.

We are wondering if all the running through the airport yesterday may have helped with the aeration of the water in the vials.  Even so, we opened the vials last night to try to get more oxygen into the water.  … Continue reading →

We are now waiting for the eggs to be delivered so that they can be combined with the water and delivered to Kennedy Space Center.  We know that the FedEx shipment arrived at the Orlando Airport at 7:21.  UPS has … Continue reading →

We were almost an hour late taking off from Albany.  We had 10 minutes from the time we landed to the time our plane was supposed to depart to make it from terminal C50 to B12.  We decided to run … Continue reading →

We were able to bring the six vials of water samples through airport security (weren’t sure with all of the limitations on liquids if this was going to be possible).  Waiting to board the plane.

We got back from vacation today and had an awesome discovery.  The eggs that we had put in the fish tank had developed and grown into fish.  Kate, Dana, and Jordyn collected water samples to ship today.  One set of … Continue reading →

Damon from Americulture emailed and called today.  Americulture has set up six breeding tanks with a male and female fish in each tank so that we will have eggs to ship on Monday.  Damon also suggested that in addition to … Continue reading →

YNN (Your News Now) came to the school today to learn about the project. The clip from the interview can be found at http://capitalregion.ynn.com/content/your_news/saratoga/540036/students-prepare-science-project-for-space-launch/

The plan for the samples is to ship the water samples FedEx on Monday April 26th from Ballston Spa to a hotel in Florida. The eggs will be shipped from New Mexico on April 26th via UPS and FedEx. The … Continue reading →