Members of the Science Club at Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, received exciting news from NASA. All five of the experiments they had designed will be conducted by the space agency. The students sent the designs through the CELERE program.
The CELERE Design Challenge is a joint educational program of NASA and Portland State University, Oregon, which enables U.S. students in grades 8-12 to participate in microgravity capillary flow research, similar to that conducted on the International Space Station.
Capillary action is the ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces without the assistance of, or in opposition to, external forces like gravity such as when water flows upward through a tree.
“This has been a wonderful opportunity for Kearney students to participate in a NASA challenge,” said Roseann Daniello, club moderator.
“They were required to be innovative and creative in their design and exacting in using the software to actually create their ideas and make the template. The girls were extremely excited to do an experiment with NASA and to actually see their ideas used in an actual experiment.”
For more information on the CELERE program, visit spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/education-outreach/celere/overview/.