Monday, April 20, 2015

MSU students win competition at Mission Discovery science camp

Two Morehead State students recently won a competition at the inaugural Mission Discovery Science Camp in Louisville.

Taylor Cash and Emma Mariner, both freshmen at MSU majoring in space science, attended the camp March 21-22 and 28-29 at the Kentucky Science Center. Cash and Mariner, both from Morehead, were members of the Circuiteers, the only all-female team in the competition. They developed a science experiment that will be sent to the International Space Station later this year. Their experiment will determine whether the microgravity of space will affect the regeneration abilities of the orange fan sponge.

Other members of the Circuiteers were Jasarae McKinney, a sophomore at Rowan County Senior High School; Shaye Allen and Raven Tindall from Presentation Academy Preparatory School in Louisville; and Julia Smith from Ballard High School, also in Louisville.

A total of seven teams from across the Commonwealth participated in the camp, which was a collaborative partnership between Kentucky Space, Higher Orbits, Space Tango and the Kentucky Science Center.  

For more information about MSU’s space science program, visit http://www.moreheadstate.edu/eass/.


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