{"id":1872,"date":"2023-05-15T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2023-05-15T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:24:16","slug":"bmhs-science-students-11th-in-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/bmhs-science-students-11th-in-country\/","title":{"rendered":"BMHS Science Students 11th in Country!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Brick Memorial students take part in The Growing Beyond Earth program Control Study that helps determine growth characteristics of certain plant types.\u00a0 \u00a0This information then gets relayed to NASA and helps them determine which plants they should attempt to grow in space.\u00a0 This project is ultimately put in place to get ready for long term space flight so that astronauts can have better food when traveling to places like Mars.\u00a0 The program is fully funded by NASA and is run by both NASA and the Fairchild institute down in Florida.\u00a0 Another company named MARS Farm sends us special Growth Chambers that allow us to change the lighting\u00a0 intensity and color so that we can test different growth scenarios on the plants.\u00a0 Different colors of light have different effects on plants.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Science Students of Brick Memorial High School take part in two different studies over the course of the year.\u00a0 Trial 1. takes place in the fall.\u00a0 In this study we are growing a specific plant that is determined by NASA and the Fairchild institute.\u00a0 The seeds and other supplies are sent to us before the trial begins.\u00a0 Over the course of the 4 week trial we collect detailed data and input it into a spreadsheet for NASA.\u00a0 That google sheet is shared directly with NASA and Fairchild Institute.\u00a0 They then use that data to help determine the growth characteristics of those plants so that they can fine tune how they will grow them in space.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trial 2 takes place in the spring.\u00a0 In this trial, we come up with our own experiment to be conducted on the plants.\u00a0 Once done with our trial and data collection, we then present our findings to NASA scientists down in Florida via Zoom.\u00a0 We have been part of the program now for 3 years and have done exceptionally well.\u00a0 Year 1 we placed 2nd in the entire country.\u00a0 Year 2 we placed 4th in the entire country.\u00a0 This year we were within the top 11 in the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are over 100 schools around the country, Puerto Rico, and even some in Turkey that are taking part in the project so it has been pretty cool to see the results.\u00a0 In addition, Mr. Ben Schaible is one of the Growing Beyond Earth Ambassador teachers.\u00a0 He meets once a month with the Program Director and about 5 or 6 other teachers around the country to help talk through the project and help make it better from year to year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Memorial students take part in The Growing Beyond Earth program Control Study that helps determine growth characteristics of certain plant types.\u00a0 \u00a0This information then gets relayed to NASA and helps them determine which plants they should attempt to grow in space.\u00a0 This project is ultimately put in place to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/bmhs-science-students-11th-in-country\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmhs-parent-news","category-bmhs-student-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}