Four HB students presented their findings at the 12th International Symposium on Materials in the Space Environment (ISMSE-12) held September 24-28 in The Netherlands. These students, Gianna Mitchell '13, Grace Yi '13, Athena Haloua '14, and Emily Imka '15, were the only high schoolers in attendance at this high-level international meeting of seasoned professionals who have studied for up to four decades the effects of the space environment on man-made materials we put in space.

All four students presented a poster, which will also be published as a paper in the proceedings, and the two seniors were also co-authors on the talk and paper by NASA's Kim de Groh.

The PEACE team's poster earned 2nd place for a new award recognizing young professionals in the under-30 age group.   Meant to encourage young professionals and doctoral students, this award was a big achievement for this high school group.

Congratulations to these young scientists!

L to R: A Haloua, E Imka, G Yi, and G Mitchell 

Conference Publications

Kim K. de Groh, Bruce A. Banks, Gianna G. Mitchell (HB’13), Grace T. Yi (HB’13), Aobo Guo (HB’11), Claire Ashmead (HB’12), Lily M. Roberts (HB’08), Catherine E. McCarthy (HB’07), Edward A. Sechkar,  MISSE 6 Stressed Polymers Experiment Atomic Oxygen Erosion Data:  in proceedings of  12^th International Symposium on Materials in the Space Environment (IMSE-12), European Space Agency ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, September 24-28, 2012 (keynote oral presentation, paper)

Grace T. Yi (HB,13), Gianna G. Mitchell (HB’13), Kim K. de Groh, Bruce A. Banks, Athena Haloua (HB’14), Emily C. Imka (HB’15),  MISSE 7 Stressed Polymers Experiment Atomic Oxygen Erosion Data:  in proceedings of  12^th International Symposium on Materials in the Space Environment (IMSE-12), European Space Agency ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, September 24-28, 2012 (poster, paper)