NASA Second and Third Place National Winners Two fourth grade teams from Cape Henry have placed nationally in NASA’s My Planet Earth competition. In the competition, students were required to choose a research environmental site and complete long-term research that was submitted to NASA. One team chose a site on campus they called the Turtle Zoo. The Turtle Zoo site received a second place national award for the students’ work. Another team submitted work about a site they called the Café Garden. The Café Garden received a third place national award. Café Garden Third Place NASA Team: Lauren Jenison, Kayla Buchardt, Lucas Breit, Kyle Sullivan, Graham Bergen, Zachary Wicher, Bryan Wacker, Kristin Hopkins, Amalia Riess, Madison Sabol, Owen McMillan, Cole Pachter, Michael Maroon,Tyler Ballard, Brigid Skorup, Nicholas Vretakis, and Melissa Eichelbaum.
* EDITOR’S NOTE: Cape Henry Collegiate School began its involvement with NASA in 1994 and has had either a first or second place winner each of the nine years.
MIDDLE AND UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE CONNECTED! Beginning in the fall of the 2003-2004 academic year, each Middle and Upper School student will have access to a personalized @capehenry.org email account. Students who have signed their Internet Contracts for next year and have contacted Mr. Kevin Shain, the webmaster, to acquire their private username and password will be able to access their new accounts. These new email addresses can follow our students even through college if they so desire. This will provide a consistent email address for years to come and will give the students another way to stay connected with each other and with the CHCS community.
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Turtle Zoo Second Place NASA Winners: Grace Kanakaris, Emma Elliott, Jack Beale, Maggie Skorup, Alyssa Trop, Anais Rodriguez – Thompson, Nikki Mandell, Kristen Vretakis, Sophie Tuppen, Elizabeth McNamara, Kalan Brehm, Paul Murray, Douglas Kellermeyer,William Jordan, Jamie Burke,William Carr, Douglas Ruetzel, Meghan Clark, and Dale Midkiff.
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