Harlem High students work with NASA

Harlem High School has partnered with NASA and The Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens in the Growing Beyond Earth Project to conduct experiments that expand food options and increase plant diversity for spaceflight.

The project was designed to support NASA research on growing plants in space. 

The project emailed all FFA advisors asking for their help in doing this research via email including teacher Lisa Hamilton of the Harlem High School Agricultural Education Department and the FFA advisor at the school. 

Two of her classes have participated in the trial. It is challenging, she...