Harrisville students’ NASA experiment launches

Harrisville high schooler Maia Bernhard, left, and recent graduate Nadia Atkinson, right, visited NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in November, celebrating the launch of their science experiment into space. This marked the second time in a row that student research from Harrisville made it into space, a press release from BOCES said. The experiment Atkinson and Bernhard developed is called “The Effects of Microgravity on the Reproductive Cycle of Drosophila melanogaster (Common Fruit Fly).” The National Step 2 Review Board for the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) selected their experiment to be a part of this most recent mission to the International Space Station. Read more here. BOCES photo.