Three Local Student Teams Selected for National Review Panel
Competition
Pictured above: Left to Right, back row: Logan Enriquez, Adam Jamerson, Jacob Bennett, Mark
Montague, Tucker Whittington, Dunston Ashe, Dylan Andrews
front row: Anna Laura Curry, Courtney Gilgen. Averi Davis, Harley Wade, Matthew Walker,
Stone Hunt, Haven McLemore
Three Fayette Academy student scientist research teams were selected to move on to the National Review
Panel for selection. The winning Student Spaceflight Experiments Research Project will represent Fayette
County and ride aboard Space X to the International Space Station in the fall of 2014.
Cancer Cells Develop in Microgravity by CoPrincipal Investigators Jacob Bennett, 12th grade, Anna
Laura Currey, 10th grade and Courtney Gilgen, 12th
grade with Co-Investigators Logan Enriquez, 10th grade,
and Adam Jamerson, 10th grade
Diffusion in Space by 6th grade Co-Principal Investigators
Dunstan Ashe, Stone Hunt, Haven McLemore, Matthew
Walker and Co-Investigator Dylan Andrews
Reishi Mushroom
VS. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia by Principal
Investigator Mark Montague, 9th grade and CoInvestigators Averi Davis, 10th grade, Harley Wade, 9th
grade, and Tucker Whittington, 9th grade
STEM in Space
The Student Spaceflight Experiments Programs (SSEP) is undertaken by the National Center for
Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S., and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for
Space Education internationally. SSEP is enabled through NanoRacks LLC, which is working in
partnership with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the
International Space Station as a National Laboratory. NCESSE, the Clarke Institute, and
NanoRacks are therefore designated SSEP Strategic Partners. To read about the programmatic
roles and responsibilities of the SSEP Strategic Partners, visit the SSEP Team page.
SSEP.ncesse.org
Pictured below are the members of Fayette Academy's Level One Review Panel. These science
and education professionals reviewed over thirty team projects from fifth through twelfth grades.
Their goal was to select the top three projects that will move to the National Review Panel at the
National Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. The research project selected will represent
Fayette County on their exciting opportunity that will include sending an experimental
microgravity mini-tube to the International Space Station. This summer in July the winning
project will be highlighted at the National Center for Earth and Space Education's annual
conference where students will make a PowerPoint presentation and greet the public touring the
country's most popular Smithsonian Museum each day. Students will use the aid of a display
board to explain their research questions and hypothesis.
Student Spaceflight Experiments Project Review Panel members Left to Right, Local Veterinarian Dr.
Tim Montague, Retired Science Supervisor Tommy Conn, St Jude Children's Research Hospital scientist
Raquel Collins-Underwood, PhD, Hari Hara SK Potula, PhD, St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Scientist Olena M Filchakova, PhD and Dr. Alan Hall, University of Memphis Education professor and
director of the West Tennessee STEM Hub.