Evanston Township High School student Sarah Bloom found out this summer over Facebook Live her all-women team won a competition that will allow them to send an experiment to space. At first, she didn’t believe it, she said.
“Honestly, at first I was kind of disbelieving, in shock,” the high school junior said. “You know I was like, ‘Mmm, I don’t believe it, I don’t know if that could really be happening,’ but it was and it is.”
For three days last summer, Bloom participated in Go For Launch!, a program through the nonprofit Higher Orbits