Dubai: An 11-year-old Indian student is the lone participant from the UAE who has got her two experiments approved for launch into space under a programme for budding young scientists.
Two experiments of Prerna Pai, a seventh grader at Sharjah’s Delhi Private School, are among the 100 selected experiments that will be fired into space under the Cubes In Space Programme on June 26, Gulf News reported.
The Cubes in Space Programme was launched in May and had invited students from around the world in the age group of 11-14 to devise experimental payloads for space.
“My science teacher has always encouraged me to think out of the box and that inspired me.
“Once my ideas were selected, CIS sent me a kit into which I had to place my experiments and mail it to them. I was so thrilled by the news that I even dashed off a thank-you note to CIS,” Gulf News quoted Pai as saying.
She submitted two experiments that she called “To stick or not to stick” and “time and pressure”.
