Fox News reports on Battle Creek girls who create new food for astronauts

Fox News reports a breakfast bar created by two high school girls from Battle Creek will be aboard the Endeavour when it takes its final flight.

Called STEM bars, they’re a nutritious and NASA-certified alternative to standard astronaut fare, and the bars will join both Tang and freeze-dried ice cream on Endeavour’s final flight, now scheduled for May 10.

The bars were developed by 15-year-old Shannon Diesch and her older sister Mikayla.

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The competition was not your typical science fair, which appealed to Mikayla. There was a lot of planning that went into the product, and it wasn’t just the manufacturing or ingredients. The girls were responsible for coming up with a business plan and a successful marketing campaign, too. The idea of the STEM (Science, Technology, Education and Mathematics) bar also appealed to them because of the ability to mass-produce it.

For more on the sisters who created STEM bars, read the rest of the story.

Source: Fox News