The Cobb County School District announced this week that students from Sprayberry High School won the Most Innovative Experimental Design category at the Plant Mars Challenge.
That’s an international competition sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in which teams of students grow plants in simulated Martian soil to see who can grow the best crops.
According to a Cobb school district release, students from Sprayberry’s STEM Academy have been participating in Planet Mars for the last two years, and used second-generation seeds collected from plants they grew last year in their simulated Martian soil.
The Sprayberry crops were grown using “a novel method of generational crop growth, where beans grown in Mars soil were harvested, and those seeds were used to grow a second generation of crops.”
Their project was helped by a $10,000 Cobb TANK grant in November.
“This is an incredible honor and a testament to the astounding achievements being made every day at Sprayberry High School,” Sprayberry principal Sara Fetterman said in the release.
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