SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

Inside the STEM Zone at St. Francis Catholic High School, through trial and error, iteration and adaptation – with equal parts testing, observing and problem solving – a group of students is reaching new heights in their STEM education experiences.

Freshman Charlotte Huang and Megan Atkinson, a junior, are part of an elite team of 12 at St. Francis, interviewed and chosen from a pool of over 100 applicants at their school alone to be part of what's called the International Space Station Program or ISSP.

The group has spent the past few months conceptualizing, designing, engineering, coding, and will ultimately send a science experiment into space to be tested by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

St. Francis is one of only 10 high schools out of rou

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