• What was the mission or aim of your project? 

Our aim for this project was to figure out if the hydroponics method was the best to grow plants in space. We chose to do this experiment because we both found this project to be interesting, and crazy that plants are able to grow plants without soil, instead using mossy-type grass (Rockwool) that can grow plants. This would also help in space camp on kepler-22b which was our endogen to send hydronic gardens there.   

• Why was this your mission?

Why this was our goal is because we were the food section in space camp, so this would be the best way to get sustainable food fast on an alienated planet where growing plants using any other method would be difficult. Why this would be difficult is because we do not know what is in the kepler -22b soil, this makes it very hard to grow plants. 

• What action/experiment did you take?

  How we went about our space camp was, we let our audience use/test the water pump for our plants. This blew a lot of people's minds, that a microbat water pump can be so efficient for everyday plant watering. We alsoshowed the audience what steps we took to grow all of our plants and how tall they grew. People were impressed how tall our plants grew in only two weeks. Thirdly, we also showed our audience what materials are needed to grow our plants, l(how much water we put a day, and amount of miracle grow every two weeks)

• How did you use what you learned in grade 9 science in the design?

What helped us design our hydroponics garden from the grade 9 curriculum is, we learned about sustainability, and how thing that are renewable, and easy to make are viable for space camp. So we decide to go with a garden because, gardens can last thousands of years if you keep replanting plants. We also learned that,  all the variable are super important in this assignment. once we organized them into their respective categories, this helped us know what things needed to stay the same with all our plants, and what needed to be different.

• Include your Instagram post/images of your science fair board.

• How does your project fit or connect with the other projects in the class?  Are we living sustainably on your chosen planet.

• How successful was your action (its OK if it didn't go as planned)?  Did you meet your goal?

• What contributed to your groups success (or lack of success)?

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Something that made our project so successful was, that my partner an myself helped each other present like a tag team to tell people different ideas so our presentations would sound fresh and different every time This helped us meet our goal to make sure all of our presentations to students, and peers were excellent. some other things that made our project so successful was, we made our poster bright, and colorful, so it would stick out. This helped people get drawn into our poster. Some other things that helped with ur group's success was, making sure we weren't over-talking, and letting our audience ask questions. This helped our audience to be intrigued by our project

• What would you do differently if you could?

Something that we could have done differently in this project is, keeping track of the amount of light the plants get. What I mean by this is, over the weekend, our plants did not get enough light because the school's lights shut off over the weekends. This made our plants die for lack of sunlight. 

• Pitch a next phase for your project.

• Inspire a future group of students to pick up where you left off.

• Why is this an important cause?  Why should they continue with it?

• Where would you like to see it go next.

If a future group were to follow in our footsteps and also make a hydroponic garden, I would have to recommend a lot to them. The first thing I would recommend would be to have a light around the plants at all times. We did not do this, this made us see exponential growth loss over the weekends. If we were to keep working on it, we would definitely multiply the number of plants to 8 to get more exact results and bring the plants home so I could check on them every day. Adding on, why this is so important to continue to build/ test the hydroponic grade because, it would be perfect for kepler-22b we could have a line of them floating in the oceans, filtering the water into the containers over and over again, this would create a basically infinite food source (sustainable growing).  Where I would want to see our project go next is, working on figuring out how to send them to space (like in space pods getting transported to planets all over the universe.)

• Each member of the group should reflect on what they learned.  You may have learned some neat stuff about science, but you also learned some other great skills like time management, goal setting, collaboration, and problem solving.

Demitri

This project was amazing in my opinion, the project really helped shine my abilities to build/create, and sparked à passion to garden that I didn't know I had. Something that made our project so successful was, me and my partner helped each other present, like tag team to tell people different ideas so our presentations would sound fresh and different every time. I also liked how our poster came together. It looked very organized and colorful. This project also taught me a lot about how to manage, and make sure our plants had enough miracle grow, and water (water every day, miracle row every two weeks.) In addition, This project also helped me with time management. I learned to stay focused, and on task when doing assignments, and bunching the thing I need to do into sections, so I can succeed. I also learned how to code. I learned to make a water pump using microbits, now i can make myself a home-made sprinkler, without having to buy one. another skill I grew on was my CER's. at the start of the year, I did not know much about making CER's, but after this project, I grew from this CER, and started making better CER's.

Yasin

This science fair project was so fantastic,exciting and amazing. I had lots of fun, in this science fair project. This project helped me to work with teammates, understand their opinion, stay on task, focus,etc. In this project me and my teammate we were told to produce food on Kepler-22B. So, we decided to build a Hydroponic garden on Kepler-22B. Something that made our project so successful was the conenction between me and Dimitri. I am proud of my partner because he worked hard,stayed on task,etc. I was so surprised how our poster turned out to be proffesionall and unique. But the most exiting part is when I saw our plants growing in the garden. It was so beautiful. This project also helped me to stay on task,stay focued and calm. Overall, I really liked this project and I hope to do it again.