Teachers in Space

Four teams have been selected for NASA’s Balloonsat High-Altitude Flight Student Competiton.

The selected teams and their experiments are:

• “The effect of a Near Space Environment on Escherichia Coli Bacteria,” Charlottesville High School (VA)
• “The effect of Near-Space Conditions on Microbial Life Forms,” Upper St. Clair High School (PA)
• “Thermal Moisture Penetration,” Team Daedalus (Utah)
• “Variations in Polyethylene Hard Disk Radiation Shields,” North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (North Carolina)

NASA plans for Balloonsat to become an annual competition. For more information, visit http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/balloonsat/.

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