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BY BRENDAN LOSINSKI blosinski@candgnews.com
BY BRENDAN LOSINSKI blosinski@candgnews.com
Photo provided by Colleen Cain
Using a specially designed cargo plane flying in parabolic arcs, passengers like Larson Middle School teacher Colleen Cain, pictured, can experience zero gravity.
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Residents worry about housing density
The legally required update to Troy’s master plan has been delayed, and the proposed plan was returned to the city’s Planning Commission for further input and discussion. The City Council voted unanimously Feb. 19 to reject the proposal because the seven-member body believed that parts of the plan, notably the portion dealing with the city’s neighborhood nodes, required additional discussion. “We’re now partially required to do a master plan update, and our city planning people have done a great job to address these issues of the neighborhood nodes, but City Council has two opportunities to weigh in on the process officially,” said Mayor Ethan Baker. “One was when we voted to release the 63-day statutorily required review period, and at that time we didn’t approve the plan because we felt we hadn’t been involved
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One Troy teacher flew high and went on an out-of-this-world trip to benefit her students. Colleen Cain, a Rochester Hills resident, is a seventh grade science teacher at Larson Middle School in the Troy School District. On March 7, she took part in the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium and the Zero Gravity Corp.’s Embedded Teacher Program and was one of eight educators from across the country to perform experiments they designed with their students in zero gravity. The feat is achieved by flying the teachers in a specially designed cargo plane that performs highaltitude parabolic dives, thus creating a weightless environment for intervals of about 20 to 30 seconds. “I did this Thursday. It’s a group of eight teachers from around the country. We went to Fort Lauderdale. We did a test readiness review where we explain our experiments, they review them, and we make sure they are flightready,” explained Cain. “We prepped all week. We boarded the plane, and it takes about 15 minutes as the modified
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