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When it comes to high school science projects, few reach the heights achieved by a group of students at the School of Environmental Studies (SES), a District 196 magnet school for high school juniors and seniors.
Competing in NASA’s prestigious TechRise Student Challenge, these ambitious students spent months designing, coding, and building a custom experiment that will be sent soaring into microgravity.
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