Two mini-laboratories created by Ukrainian students who won the All-Ukraine competition to defend the scientific work of students of the Ukrainian Small Academy of Sciences were sent to the International Space Station.
According to the news of Ukrinform, Olena Zelenska, the wife of the President of Ukraine, announced this on Telegram.
“The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft flew into space with two school experiments of Ukrainian students. Yes, imagine it! For the first time in the history of the Ukrainian Junior Academy of Sciences such a thing has been done! All-Ukrainian competition – students of Kharkiv Gymnasium 47 and Richeliev Lyceum from Odesa – to the ISS sent to mini labs,” he said.
According to Zelenska, students watched the rocket launch live from NASA Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
“I can only imagine how they felt at this historic moment: When a rocket launches the result of your work into space. I’m proud of our students. For their teachers. For everyone who made it possible despite the war.” ,” added the First Lady.
As he noted, it makes perfect sense that a gym in Kharkiv is destroyed by a Russian missile, but the teacher takes the experiment from the destroyed classroom and the students still complete the project according to the requirements. NASA.
“Russia is launching rockets at our schools. We’re launching information into space. We’re really different. And fortunately the whole world sees it,” Zelenska said.
As Ukrinform reported, at the beginning of November, Kherson schoolgirl Polina Kozlova won the International Olympiad of Geniuses in the category “Creative Writing”. He brought her the prize for an English poem about ocean pollution.