A group of middle school students from Bellevue’s Open Window School are busy preparing to send multiple experiments into space, all thanks to NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge. Trudi Hoogenboom is a planetary scientist and teaches science at the school. She said the 11 students part of this project aren’t part of a formal group or class, so she’s helping coordinate and oversee the project. Hoogenboom said the students brainstormed different experiments they’d want to conduct in space and then put together a proposal. Their project is one of 60 in the country that won, so now they get $1,500 to create the tests. “NASA TechRise is, I think, one of the greatest science competitions that you can enter as a child,” she said. “It gives you the ability to design your own experiments. Think up, dream up anything you’d like. Build the instrument, have it flown on either a stratospheric balloon or a rocket lander. Then have it land and get the data to do real science on.” READ MORE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/bellevue/bellevue-open-window-school-nasa-techrise-student-challenge/281-784f0829-8bcb-4a68-b013-8b8b6c3983c5