Two Virginia Tech freshmen have already seen a project of theirs fly into space

The high school project of Anna Montgomery and Christopher Dobyns was a step up from the mousetrap car you and I had to make. As part of the NASA Exploration Design Challenge, they created a radiation shield.
In December, the winning high school team, which included Montgomery, Dobyns and three of their former classmates at the Governors School for Science and Technology in Hampton, Va., saw their shield launch on an exploration flight test aboard Orion FT1.

Virginia Tech News reported:

During the flight test, Orion flew through a dense radiation field surrounding the Earth to prepare for the first crewed mission.
Team ARES’s project, called the Tesseract, utilized tiny sensors that measure the amount of radiation penetrating the shield at various depths.
The team members anticipated the challenge would take a week to complete, but, a year and a half in, Montgomery said, “We were clearly mistaken about the time commitment.”
“For us, the project isn’t done yet,” said Montgomery.
The Tessaract’s radiation sensors have done two orbits around the Earth in the Orion capsule and have been sent off to Oklahoma State University to measure results. Montgomery said the next step is for the Team ARES to write about the effectiveness of their design.