The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) announced the winners of the Space Station STEM Challenge, a $50,000 grant competition that allowed Massachusetts middle schools to compete for resources to send a life sciences research experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory. Talbot Innovation Middle School in Fall River, MA and Collins Middle School in Salem, MA were announced as winners, and both schools will participate in a joint experiment focused on tadpole morphology and developmental abnormalities in frogs.

