East Chapel Hill High School student announced as finalist in national NASA competition
By Joelle Adeleke | 5:57pm
- Pristine Onuoha, a junior at East Chapel Hill High School, was announced as one of the finalists for the Genes in Space challenge hosted by NASA.
- For this national competition, students must design an experiment that relates to an issue about spaceu2019s effect on DNA. The winning proposed experiment will be tested on the International Space Station.
- Onuoha's proposed experiment would analyze the relationship between stem cell populations and telomere length in the white blood cells of astronauts.