Congratulations to International School students who had their science experiments selected for flight as part of the Cubes in Space program!

The program, which is a collaboration between Cubes in Space and NASA’s Langley Research Center and Colorado Space Grant Consortium, is a global competition for students to develop STEM-based experiments for launch into space via a NASA sounding rocket or a high-altitude scientific balloon mission.

As part of the project, students developed and designed an experimental payload to be integrated into a small cube, honing their communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity skills.

International teams that were chosen for the space flight were:

  • Chicken Bone Survival, comprised of students Novia Liu, Melia Laird, Zac Reddy, and Holden Shivers.
  • Space Magnets, comprised of students Ruka Kinoshita Alicia Wu, Adrianna Sam, and Hannah Kim.

International teams that were chosen for the high-altitude balloon mission were:

  • Grass in Space, comprised of students Alli Follett, Nishita Kholsa, Lilly Kihanya, and Nitya Lagadapati
  • Battery Power by Max Richardson

The experiments will be launched via sounding rocket in June 2016 from NASA Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia or by high-altitude scientific balloon in August 2016 from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Ft. Sumner, New Mexico.

For more information about Cubes in Space, visit cubesinspace.com.

The Bellevue School District acknowledges that we learn, work, live and gather on the Indigenous Land of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish and Snoqualmie Tribes. We thank these caretakers of this land, who have lived and continue to live here, since time immemorial.