Larissa Perara, a student at Briar Woods High School, was accepted into NASA’s Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars.

Currently the camp is in its second year. The participants were selected based on completion of interactive online lessons focused on space exploration and mapped to national education standards, academic merits and geographic diversity.

The Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars or WISH program encourages young women to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees and exposes them to the real world applications of STEM careers at NASA.