Dubai, Jun 23: An 11-year-old Mangalorean 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.
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,” said Ms Pai.
Her parents hail from Mangalore. Prerna 's mother Ragini is a resident of Car Street in Mangalore while father Harish Pai is from Manipal. Prerna was born in Mangalore and studying in Sharjah.
She submitted two experiments that she called “To stick or not to stick” and “time and pressure”.
The first experiment is about studying the manner in which different adhesives are likely to behave in space in the absence of atmospheric pressure.
For this, Pai used a thermocol cube of 12 pieces in which each corner was stuck using a different kind of adhesive such as modelling clay, wax, cello tape, metal wire, thread, school glue and super glue.
The second involves two tiny bottles - one made of plastic and the other of glass - sealed with a modelling clay cork and placed.
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