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Vol. 19, No. 5
October 19, 2022
Ruling pg. 6
Sports pg. 12
Local students witness NASA launch By Taylor Davison / Valley Journal
Schools pg. 18
LAKE COUNTY — Kids of the Ronan Boys and Girls Club got the opportunity of a lifetime on Oct. 5-9 as they were invited to Florida to witness a NASA rocket launch in person. A new program partnered with NASA and funded by the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA),
“Students To Launch” reached out to the spectrUM Discovery Area with the University of Montana back in July. According to the spectrUM Discovery Area Director Jessie Herbert-Meny, the hands-on science center in Missoula had applied for a grant that allowed them to become a NASA Community Anchor this last year to build upon NASA’s resources
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and help share them with the people of Montana. As Students To Launch is still in its first year, it used the list of approximately 20 Community Anchors to choose who to begin working with. SpectrUM ended up one of the first sites they reached out to. Herbert-Meny said they were offered the opportunity to participate in a rocket launching
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activity that would lead to some kids getting the chance to go see an actual rocket launch. They responded with an enthusiastic yes. From there, spectrUM reached out to their partners at the Boys and Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation to find interested kids and Herbert-Meny said it just grew from there. Students To Launch initially
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