Students’ experiment for NASA out of this world By Jeremiah S. Papineau
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PLATTSBURGH — When it comes to science experiments, one group of students has come up with one of astronomical proportions. Students of Wendy Demane’s aerospace engineering class at Plattsburgh High School have been selected to participate in a nationwide competition to further the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s mission to explore outer space. Kendrick Buchala, Kevin Neiderer, Christina Souliere and Ben Vanvalkenburg — who recently transferred to the Peru Central School District but will still participate in the experiment — will be
on their way to the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, next week with a potential solution to a problem facing astronauts — stomach aches. Demane said the students came up with the idea last September after she found the competition on-line and asked them what they would be interested in researching. “When we first started, we didn’t know what we were going to do,” said Neiderer. The four knew they needed to research something that would have a “real world application,” said Demane. Through local physician Dr. James DeLucas, an aerospace medicine specialist, the students were put in touch
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Students Christina Souliere, Kendrick Buchala, Ben Vanvalkenburg and Kevin Neiderer will test a science experiment in a zero-gravity environment next week at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
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