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Vol. LXIII, No. 30
 
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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(Photo by Ellen Gilbert)
RODOS’S ROCKETEERS: Students in Community Park fourth-grade teacher Mike Rodos’s PRS Summer Enrichment Program, “The Art and Science of Model Rocketry,” include (from left): Jonathan Zarnstorff, Leo LaPlaca, Marie-Angela Stokolosa, Charles Griebell, Spencer Makow, Jamie Hofer, Sydney Dubin, William Hare, Andrew Jones, and Adam Olkin.

A Rocket Science Summer: Students Aim for the Skies In “The Art and Science of Model Rocketry” Class

Ellen Gilbert

All the media attention given to the recent anniversary of the moon landing has special resonance on the John Witherspoon Middle School football field, where the whoosh of rockets taking off is an everyday occurrence for students in Michael Rodos’s Princeton Regional Schools Summer Enrichment Program course, “The Art and Science of Model Rocketry.”

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