At SCVi and other iLEAD schools, the learners (students) get a hands-on experience that runs different from your regular public school.

Take it from the home-study learners who are conducting experiments up to space!

Yes, space.

The International Space Station to be exact. On the latest episode of Eye on the Valley, 3 SCVi learners came to talk about their recent experiment for the Dream up to Space project. The goal is to determine what we could colonize on Mars, on the moon, or just space in general.

In the past, learners have sent carrot seeds and yucca plant seeds to space to determine if they’d grow and sustain life outside of Earth.

Through trial and error, learners like Carter, Hutch and Grace are working tirelessly to successfully send another yucca plant to the International Space Station for astronauts to look at and help these learners with the experiment.

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Why the Yucca plant?

Yucca, as told by Carter, has medicinal purposes as well as other nutritional benefits. When you send anything to space, you have to go through “the FedEx to space”, Nanorax. The learners believe that their experiment this round was unsuccessful because of a leak while handling the Yucca up to space.

The Yucca seed was placed in a special 3-chamber package to keep bacteria from Earth away from the entire package. The leakage that occurred is still unknown to Grace, Hutch, and Carter, but they are now testing out theories they have and are going to try to conduct this experiment again this June.

Fingers crossed they are able to! SCVi and iLEAD exploration applaud these learners for staying positive, and persevering while they figure out what went wrong.

iLEAD exploration is a fantastic avenue for learners of all ages to find something they’re passionate about.

These kids are inspiring the younger generation about space and what it means to work as a team and reach an overall goal. A little inspiration makes a lasting impression every time.

If your child would be interested in a new learning environment, please visit ileadsantaclarita.org today.

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