OCHS Student Scientists Receive Recognition (left to right): Alison Miles, Kaitlyn Wriggins, Mercy Griffith, Exchange Club President Bill Culp, Lauren Bowersock, Kristina Redmond and Daniel Loggi.
The Exchange Club of Ocean City hosted six Ocean City High School student scientists at a recent dinner meeting and applauded their winning efforts to have their experiment fly to the International Space Station (
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Bill Culp, Exchange Club president, introduced Alison Miles, Kaitlyn Wriggins, Mercy Griffith, Lauren Bowersock, Kristina Redmond and Daniel Loggi to the membership, as well as their mentor, science teacher Daniel Weaver.
The experiment will analyze the effect of microgravity on the attachment rate of E. coli bacteria to lettuce cells, practical information if people ever tried to cultivate food during long periods of space travel.
During the meeting, each student spoke about individual roles in the design and development of the winning experiment.
