The final proposal selected by the national SSEP panel was from a team of three 5th graders from Milton Terrace South Elementary School who designed an experiment proposal entitled “Development of Tilapia Fish Eggs in Space”. The team includes Dana Betti, Jordyn Catherall, and Kate Yager. Their teacher advisers are 5th grade instructors Megan Otten and Angelo D’Annibale.
Read the official announcement at: http://ssep.ncesse.org/2010/11/ssep-is-proud-to-announce-the-student-proposals-selected-for-spaceflight-on-sts-134/
Two additional proposals were selected as Honorable Mention and submitted by High School students Denise Croote and Troy Mackey. The High School proposals were entitled “The Effect of Microgravity on Bacterial Reproduction” and the “Effect of Penicillin in Microgravity”. Their teacher advisers include Mary Lou Stern and Mary Ellen Kusnierz, both science instructors at the Ballston Spa High School.
“The entire Ballston Spa community and our corporate partners at GLOBALFOUNDRIES celebrate the participation of our students in this national spaceflight project and the selection of the finalists who will now have their experiment on the space shuttle flight in February”, said Superintendent of Schools Joseph P. Dragone, Ph.D. “This type of learning is an example of what needs to take place in our classrooms to engage students in the skills necessary to be successful in their future education and the workplace of the 21st Century.”
The students will be recognized and congratulated by the Board of Education at the December 1st meeting.
