Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and CASIS Announce Winners of Space Station STEM Challenge
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.
NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman (far left), 8th Grade Technology and Engineering teacher at Talbot Innovation Middle School in Fall River Benjamin Coleman (center), Manager of for Academic and Workforce Programs Ryan Mudawar (far right) and students from Talbot Innovation Middle School participated in the announcement of the Space Station STEM Challenge winners at the ISS R&D Conference in Boston.NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman (far left), STEM teacher at Collins Middle School in Salem Matthew Weaver (left of center), Manager of for Academic and Workforce Programs Ryan Mudawar (far right) and students from Collins Middle School participated in the announcement of the Space Station STEM Challenge winners at the ISS R&D Conference in Boston.
