Amr Mohamed

Amr Mohamed is an Egyptian student who designed the winning entry to the global YouTube Space Lab competition in February 2012.

Biography

Amr grew up in Alexandria and began creating lab experiments at the age of twelve. Amr gained inspiration to pursue his dreams after participating in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.[1] His idea for the NASA contest involved sending a jumping spider on the International Space Station (ISS) to see if it could still function as a predator.[2]

Amr's experiment was implemented by the University of Colorado and involved sending the Phidippus johnsoni spider, named Nefertiti, onto the ISS for one hundred days. "Neffi" successfully adapted to her new environment and returned to Earth and lived the O. Orkin Insect Zoo until she died four days later on December 3, 2012.[3]

Amr is attending Stanford University where he is majoring in Engineering.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Mohamed, Amr (1 January 2012). "New Beginnings: Fly Me to the Moon". Huffington Post. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Jensen, Jon; Maktabi, Rima (7 June 2012). "Can jumping spiders kill in space? Student's experiment set for orbit". CNN. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  3. ↑ Brennan, Charlie (3 December 2012). "'Spidernaut' survives CU-Boulder mission to space, but not the Smithsonian". Daily Camera. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  4. ↑ Liautaud, Alexa (14 January 2013). "Aero/Astro struggles to engage undergrads". The Stanford Daily. Retrieved 22 January 2013.

External links