Winamac Students Working on Space Project

Winamac Community High School
Winamac Community High School
Dr. Darlene Gordon, a middle school science teacher, gave the Eastern Pulaski School Board an update on the Student Space Flight Experiment Program last week.

Gordon said the program is funded out of Washington D.C. and that the middle school students have partnered with students from Crown Point in this program. All of the students are working together, with the two schools competing against each other, to come up with experiments that could be chosen to go up on the International Space Station.

“This is open to fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade students and a few other students that we have in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program,” explained Gordon. “So, we’ve come up with everything from biological to physical experiments.”

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