Top: The city of Mercer Island and Mercer Island Chinese Association presented a Lunar New Year Celebration at the community and event center on Feb. 11. Mercer Island School District staff members were present to visit with attendees, eight Islander Middle School orchestra students performed three songs and Mercer Island High School junior Chloe Yang held a fundraiser that directly supports the Asian Counseling and Referral Service, which recently lost 1.4 tons of frozen food during a power outage. Bottom: Several Mercer Island families recently came together to cook local police officers a homemade dinner to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Photos courtesy of the Mercer Island School District and city of Mercer Island
Seattle-area students make strong showing in national finals of American Rocketry Challenge
June 29, 2021 at 7:21 pm
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Members of the WISE Camps Argonauts from Bellevue, Wash., during a launch this month in Pasco, Wash., from left: Harrison Williams (captain), Ashley Kennedy, Jackson Blunt, Isabella Pope, Nicola Kaehler and Siddarth Vemparala. (Photo courtesy of Brendan Williams)
Update, June 29: A handful of teams from the Seattle area and another from southeastern Washington state made a strong showing in the finals this month of the American Rocketry Challenge, the world’s largest student rocket contest.
Finals for the world's largest student rocket contest will kick off this weekend with 100 teams competing to become national champion — and six of the teams are…