Shattuck Students Win Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition
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Shattuck Middle School students Brookyln Anderson and Nick Bentley were winners of the Wisconsin Crystal Growing Contest through the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry.
Bentley was also chosen for the opportunity for his crystals to grow aboard the International Space Station U.S. National Lab through a partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and their Space Station Explorers education program. He will spend a week in Florida the week before the launch.
The objective of the competition is to grow the biggest and highest quality single crystal. Students from throughout Wisconsin compete to grow the best crystals, as judged by scientists who are experts in crystallography.
For 2017, the material for the middle school crystal growing competition was cupric sulfate, CuSO4.5H2O. This material is chosen because it produces large beautiful blue crystals, which are neither too easy nor too difficult to grow.
Anderson and Bentley were awarded their honor on May 19 in Madison. They worked on their project under the guidance of teacher Dean Doersch.
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