SCVi 5th & 6th Graders DreamUp Launch Team Prepare to Send Experiment to Space

On Saturday, February 1, a small group of 5th and 6th graders from SCVi gathered just north of Santa Barbara, California, to collect specimens of a particular kind of sea algae to prepare to send their experiment to the International Space Station (ISS). 

Here’s one learner’s perspective:

Our DreamUp to Space Launch Team is made up of a group of 10- and 11-year-old kids whose experiment idea was selected from the iLEAD DreamUp to Space Mission 2018-2019. Our experiment is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) March 2 on Space-X 20 from Cape Canaveral! We hope to find out the effects of microgravity on algae, and we wonder if algae could one day produce oxygen in space. 

It was great being at the beach — when we got there, we went straight to work! I loved collecting the algae even though it was kind of slimy (gross but cool) and being at the ocean with friends doing something we like to do!

— Solomon Press, 5th Grade, SCVi

Read the full story and view the slideshow at iLEAD Student Aerospace Projects!