For the third year in a row, an experiment proposed by a team of eighth-grade scientists at Hackett Middle School in Albany will travel to and be performed on the International Space Station.

Late this spring, astronauts on the space station will conduct “The Effects of a Microgravity Environment on the Growth of Mold on Strawberries.”

A group of teachers and administrators judged experiments from the three district middle schools and forwarded the top three to the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program, which selected the Hackett project from others submitted throughout the country.

Congratulations to those students.