Learning is a blast (off)Students get tast of space at Challenger Learning Center

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Publication: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL

Date: 2008-12-24 00:00:00

BLOOMINGTON - The cheers grew as LeRoy Elementary School fifth- graders got assignments to rendezvous with a comet.

Students and teachers prepared four weeks for the session at the Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation Museum. Chaperoning parents also shared the thrill.

"Alex was really excited. I like seeing him excited," said Julie Payne, a Country Financial employee there to watch her 11-year-old son and his classmates learn about space.

The LeRoy group was one of about 225 missions to "take off" in the last year. About 6,000 ...

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