Space: The Final Homework Frontier
Newsweek|May 12 2017

Science fairs are for losers! These high schoolers are building for NASA.

Swapna Krishna
Space: The Final Homework Frontier

BACTERIA are a vexing problem for astronauts. The microorganisms that colonize our bodies grow uncontrollably on surfaces of the International Space Station, so astronauts spend hours cleaning them up each week. How is NASA solving this very tiny big problem? It’s turning to a bunch of high school kids. But not just any kids. It is depending on NASA HUNCH high school classrooms, like the one science teachers Gene Gordon and Donna Himmelberg lead at Fairport High School in Fairport, New York.

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