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Best wishes to HB students Grace Yi '13, Gianna Mitchell '13, Athena Haloua '14, and Emily Imka '15. These four girls, along with their teachers - Patty Hunt, director of the Science Research & Engineering Program, and Sheri Homany, Upper School Science Department Chair, will be headed to the Netherlands for an international space conference to be held the week of September 24-28.
Yi, Mitchell, Haloua, and Imka will make a presentation at the 11th Annual International Space Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures from the Space Environment (ICPMSE-12) in Noordjwick, Netherlands. Attendees will include delegations of professionals from national space agencies and privatized space companies from the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea, China, Brazil, and Israel. The HB student group will be the only group of high schoolers to present their research findings at the conference.
The HB students are members of the PEACE (Polymer Erosion And Contamination Experiment) team that has partnered with NASA Glenn Research Center scientists Kim de Groh and Bruce Banks since 1998. During that time, 26 HB SREP students have worked with NASA to determine which polymers are best suited for space exposure during differing periods of time and under differing conditions. Their 15 years of data has become a library of information for space scientists all over the world to reference as they design manmade objects such as satellites.