Tarun Srinivasan '17 was selected as one of five finalists for the International Space Station Science Competition, Genes in Space. The contest requires students in grades 7 through 12 to design an experiment to solve a real-life space exploration problem through DNA analysis. The winning experiment will be performed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) using a miniPCR machine.
Tarun's experiment tests the compositional changes to bacteria in an astronaut's body before, during and after a journey to space. The five finalists will receive mentoring from R&D sciences from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will present their proposals to a panel of scientists, educators and technologists at the ISS Research and Development Conference in Boston on July 7.
For more information on the competition, click here.
Congratulations to Tarun on this amazing achievement!