Antioch’s teen creator of ‘Hello Kitty rocket’ takes home regional science award
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ANTIOCH — Though it’s been awhile since her weather balloon experiment to send a Hello Kitty toy almost 18 miles above the Earth hit the ground, Lauren Rojas hasn’t come down yet.
Rojas, 13, was awarded first place at the Association of Christian Schools International science fair competition for the Northern California region.
The science fair was held Friday at Cornerstone Christian School — where Rojas is a seventh-grader.
Awards were announced and passed out Friday afternoon. Her experiment beat six others in the junior high physical science category.”
Update: Ms. Rojas has won an award and will be going to the Reginald Science fair. We to go girl. Good Luck in the Regionals
I am glad unexpected fame and world wide attention did not jinxes her chances. The judging was tough according to the report and her video nor fame did not count.
Antioch teen’s ‘Hello Kitty rocket’ wins at school science fair – Contra Costa Times
“ANTIOCH — The weather balloon experiment that sent a Hello Kitty toy almost 18 miles above the Earth is now an award-winning science project that is sending its creator to a regional competition.”
By now only a few on this earth has not heard of how a 7th grader, Lauren Rojas, has sent Hello Kitty Plush 93,000 feet up in the stratosphere as part of a science project.
Having looked at the video, she did an excellent job of presetting her experiment during the flight, the pictures are spectacular and hello kitty in her rocket is just so cute. The rocket parachuted back to earth 47 miles from the launch point, in a tree; a likely place for a kitty. Hello Kitty is safe and sound back on Earth. The video went viral and new report has been seen all over the world and on National TV.
Not to detract from Ms. Rojas feat, some in the media is reporting this is Hello Kitty’s first trip into (or near space). That honor really should go to Melissa whose Hello Kitty has flown with The Expedition 9 Crew in 2004. I quote from part of that post.
“This is to certify that Hello Kitty accompanied the Expedition 9 Crew in their long duration space mission aboard the International Space Station. This item was flown for the wonderful Melissa (last name omitted for obvious reasons).
The Expedition 9 Crew was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on April 19, 2004, at 9:19 a.m., aboard the Russian Soyuz Spacecraft TMA-4, and return to Kazakhstan on October 24, 2004, at 6:35 a.m. aboard the Soyuz Spacecraft TMA-4.”
I also thought Hello Kitty as Soyuz crew mascot aka Micro Gravity Indicator some time ago.
Still way to go Lauren for Hello Kitty first altitude Balloon mission.
