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Louisiana students explore space careers at NASA Astro Camp
LEIGH GUIDRY, Lafayette Daily Advertiser
July 16, 2021
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1of3NASA Astro Camp gives students chance to explore the mysteries of space as astronauts take spacewalks in virtual reality, build working robots, plan a lunar colony, launch rockets, explore the surface of Mars, make out-of-this-world astronaut ice cream, and collaborate as a crew to complete challenging space missions. Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP)Scott Clause/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3NASA Astro Camp gives students chance to explore the mysteries of space as astronauts take spacewalks in virtual reality, build working robots, plan a lunar colony, launch rockets, explore the surface of Mars, make out-of-this-world astronaut ice cream, and collaborate as a crew to complete challenging space missions. Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP)Scott Clause/APShow Mor
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OPELOUSAS More than 20 high-schoolers have been working with NASA engineers and trainers to simulate life on a space station, create circuits and send electrical currents through graphite on paper this week at Northwest High School.
They ve produced these experiments and more through NASA Astro Camp presented by Central Creativity and St. Landry Parish schools. Students are participating in-person at Northwest High and the Magnet Academy for Cultural Arts in Opelousas.
Students from across the district gathered in the Northwest High library Wednesday to hear from Chad Hammons, connecting virtually from home in Houston.
Hammons is over the portable life support systems, or backpacks, astronauts wear on their space suits specifically the new suits for new astronauts going to the moon, he explained.