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Chen: My name is Dorothy Chen. I'm 16 years old.
I attend Troy High School in Troy, Michigan.
I definitely want to pursue science as a career.
I don't really see myself doing anything else.
Ma: I'm Sara Ma. I'm 16 years old,
from Troy High School, in Troy, Michigan.
I like succeeding. Like, just knowing that
if I put my mind to anything, I can do it,
and it'll be done.
We first heard about YouTube Space Lab
through a club at school.
It's called Biology Competitions Club.
We wanted to do something biological
instead of physics-related.
And I guess when we first started brainstorming,
we wanted to do something
that would definitely impact the human race.
Chen: If everything works out as we hope,
it could just help cure certain diseases.
The idea that something that you made--
something that, like, is your experiment
being sent up into space and actually becoming a reality
is pretty incredible.
Apart from, like, academics,
I think that my life pretty much consists
winter guard and bassoon.
Ma: I don't play bassoon, but I play piano,
and I really love it.
Chen: Winter guard is definitely a sort of escape.
For that hour, hour and a half I'm rehearsing,
It's like I don't have to worry about my bio test.
Ma: It's so cool how, like, with science,
everything relates to each other.
Like, physics is used in chemistry,
chemistry is used in biology, and so on.
everything is interrelated, and it's just--
It's really neat to find those relations.
I do like looking up at the night sky.
I think constellations are the coolest things ever.
Like, just to look and see this vast expanse over us.
I mean, we're just one small planet,
and there's so much more left to explore.