Garden City Middle School Is Going To Space Again

GARDEN CITY, NY — On Dec. 19, several seventh grade classes from Garden City Middle School visited the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale. While students spent the morning learning about air and space, the field trip culminated in the announcement of the next Student Spaceflight Experiments Program winners.

Last year, as part of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education’s Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, an experiment conducted by four Garden City Middle School students was chosen and is currently being executed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

While that experiment is still ongoing with the students actively monitoring their control, the 2022-23 winners were announced: Tejas Bera, Fallon Grant, Ryan Schmidt and Sarah Ullrich. Their experiment, “Effects of Microgravity on Dill Seed Germination,” will be sent to space in the summer of 2023.

After exploring the Cradle of Aviation Museum, several seventh grade classes gathered in the museum’s atrium to hear the winning team announcement. They all showed their Garden City pride, wearing t-shirts designed by Riya Matwani. As part of the program, students were asked to create a T-shirt design celebrating Garden City’s participation in this collaborative space project, and Riya’s design received the most votes.