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Local Climate Corp internship program grows amid global concerns KATE CAGLE Daily Press Staff Writer
If it’s possible for a modern Santa Monican to truly be carbon neutral, Cris Gutierrez sets the standard.
She gave up her car nearly two decades ago to limit her emissions while commuting. She lives in a small apartment. She stopped eatSEE INTERNSHIP PAGE 4
Aerospace start-up launching new technology in Santa Monica KATE CAGLE Daily Press Staff Writer
Tucked away in an unassuming office building off Colorado Avenue, a small group of engineers are diligently working on the next generation of drone technology.
Walls covered in Post-it notes and complex math equations provide the backdrop as former NASA Ames scientist Nicole Jordan refines the technology she calls “game changing.” SEE DRONE PAGE 6
Students Interact With the International Space Station BY JESSICA UHLER SMC Corsair/Daily Press Staff Writer
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Young patients at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica didn’t have to skip trick-or-treating this year. People-AnimalConnection therapy dogs and volunteers helped them celebrate with games, crafts and candy collecting.
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“Station, this is Randy Bresnik Senior here with the students. How do you hear me?” “Well, Dad, got you loud and clear. Welcome, everyone from Samohi, to the International Space Station!” Santa Monica High School graduate Commander Randy Bresnik’s warm greeting to his father, SMSH students, and guests of his former high school from the International Space Station on Monday, October 30, 2017, began the morning’s interaction. Bresnik’s parents opened the broadcast from the high school which hosted students of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District from Grant Elementary
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School, John Adams Middle School, and Santa Monica College who came with prepared questions for Commander Bresnik and fellow astronaut Joe Acaba. The two astronauts took a break from their space mission to interact with the students. SMHS students were in high spirits while they waited for their opportunity to interact with the International Space Station. After being ushered into Barnum Hall where the downlink to the astronauts would be broadcasted, the audience anxiously watched the large screen over the stage waiting for the transmission to begin. Select students from around the district were chosen to ask questions which ranged from how SMHS helped SEE STATION PAGE 10
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