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this is mission control houston american

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students who are working with other

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students as far away as finland will

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soon be watching astronauts conduct

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their 17 experiments onboard the

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international space station

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these studies

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looking at everything from protein

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crystals to plant growth

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all the way to space radiation students

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devised the experiments built the

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hardware and watched as the experiment

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launched on the recent orbital atk cargo

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mission nasa commentator lori meg spoke

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with their school sponsor about the

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we have all kinds of experiments we have

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from

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protein crystallization experiments

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without refrigeration

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uh we have passed a plant pathology

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actually inject plants make sure that

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they're not they're basically immune to

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disease

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we have geiger counters that measure

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radiation

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we have plating experiments we're

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actually planting

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silver in space

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we actually have six from our school

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one from our junior high and the

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remaining from other partner schools a

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total of nine other schools

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all the way from

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san diego to finland

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so what's it like

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for high school students to be

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building something for space and and

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testing something in space

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oh it's a very unique in today's

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environment uh the students don't

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normally get an opportunity to actually

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use their hands they learn math they

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learn science of all kinds but never get

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to apply it

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here's an opportunity for the students

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to actually apply as a team

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as a goal and to do all this in a period

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in the nine months of the school year

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we actually have seventh graders who are

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able to build these experiments to let

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the experiment build the experiment test

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the sent to space and return and give a

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report on it before they go on vacation

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that's wild

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so

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17 yes

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what was that like they came back they

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they found results they

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what we do is we get real-time data from

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the

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actually get what you expect or not if

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they don't get that also which is

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normally the case

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because in space obviously there's no up

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and there's no down so you constantly

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get some very very strange results

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especially the junior hires they

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come up with some phenomenal experiments

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you would never think that a junior

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would be able to do

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with the results of that sometimes

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they're kind of mind-boggling

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why for you personally is this important

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it's because it's an opportunity to give

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back

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my dad before he passed away

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had all these lists for things for me to

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do and i've done them all

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except the last and most important

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things is whatever you've learned

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either naturally

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by your abilities or what you've learned

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in life give back to society

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and there's four of us that are doing

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this at valley christian high school

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right now

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we're donating our time and effort

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to get the kids into space what's the

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reaction been from the students and one

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important thing that they said to me is

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our experiments could be gone

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but our learning experience