Crowd-funding seems to be more than a fad. While many projects don’t meet their fund-raising goals, there continue to be some\u00a0campaigns\u00a0that meet or even greatly exceed their goals.<\/p>\n
For example, I posted a few times about the Chicks in Space campaign<\/a> by three high school students to fund an experiment on the Int. Space Station. They have now met their goal of $15,000.\u00a0The Chicks Are Going To NASA’s International Space Station –\u00a0NanoRacks<\/a>\u00a0–<\/em><\/p>\n Houston, TX- March 27, 2015<\/strong>\u2014NanoRacks and DreamUp are happy to announce that the Chicks In Space, the Company\u2019s first student crowd-sourced payload, has raised the required $15,000 to send their payload \u2018The Garden of ETON\u2019 to the International Space Station (ISS) via NanoRacks\u2019 Dream-Up educational program.<\/em><\/p>\n The Chicks In Space are three sisters, MaryAnn, Lillith, and Adia Buwala, from Tennessee who have always dreamt of researching in space. The young women have completed many NASA challenges, created an after school club for space research, and recently converted their centrifuge plant growth chamber for ISS research. The Chicks\u2019 experiment \u201cThe Garden of ETON (Extraterrestrial Organic Nutrition)\u201d is a hydroponic garden developed to function under conditions of microgravity in hopes to learn the best way to grow a renewable food source for long-term space travel.<\/em><\/p>\n Continue…<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Here’s a new video from the young ladies:<\/p>\n