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Plainville teen finalist in Space Lab contest

Hopes to study how snow forms in zero gravity

By Alli Knothe

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 22, 2012

Emerald Bresnahan, a 17-year-old from Plainville, was one of 2,000 students globally who designed experiments and submitted them online for a chance to have their theories tested at the international space station. Bresnahan’s experiment is designed to test her thesis that by studying the formation of a snowflake, much can be learned about the birth of a galaxy. Yesterday, YouTube and Google announced Bresnahan is one of nine finalists in the YouTube Space Lab competition.

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