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It’s that time of year when students are headed back to school. Press Publications asked local school districts, including White Bear Lake and Mahtomedi, about various topics including: construction projects, the teacher shortage, COVID-19 protocols, security upgrades and more for the 2022-23 school year.
Q. What physical changes will students and parents notice about school buildings when they return this year? Please highlight some of the construction projects that took place over the summer months or are ongoing. A. Phase 2 of the facilities process made possible by the community’s support of the 2019 bond referendum is in progress and includes work at Birch Lake, Lakeaires and Otter Lake Elementaries, the
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Area Learning Center, and an addition at the current WBLAHS - South Campus, which will be a middle school building when North Campus becomes the site of the unified high school in the fall of 2024. In Hugo, the new North Star Elementary is open for students this fall and construction will begin at Oneka Elementary. Projects in the design phase include Central Middle School and SEE BACK TO SCHOOL, PAGE 3
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It was at White Bear Lake High School that Josh Cassada started imagining a career as an astronaut. In just a few weeks his childhood ambitions will come true. On Oct. 3, Cassada, Mission Commander Nicole Mann and mission specialists Koichi Wakata and Anna Kikina will travel to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. “I’ll have to be honest, I’m super excited to get to work,” Cassada said. The SpaceX mission will last roughly six months, or “about a hockey season,” according to Cassa NASA | CONTRIBUTED da. The crew of four astronauts will spend Josh Cassada 180 days aboard the International Space Station collecting data about life in low orbit with the hopes of taking what they’ve learned into future deep space missions. Though Cassada is the pilot for the mission, much of his time will be spent simply maintaining the spacecraft that he and the other astronauts will live on for the next several months. The livable space on the space station is roughly the size of a six-bedroom home and hosts about 200 to 400 experiments that will be conducted over the six months. Cassada shared a sneak peek at what he’ll be working on. “My favorite experiment is the alpha magnetic spectrometer, which is a giant experiment set on top of the space station,” Cassada said. It’s experiments like this that help answer some of the most fundamental questions about the universe, according to Cassada. The cold atom lab is another experiment that’ll be on board the space station. Being in space allows atoms to get so cold that the astronauts will see the atoms behave at a quantum level that can’t quite be achieved on Earth. Cassada and his crew will also work on the bio fabrication facility, or BFF, an experiment involving scientific advances in growing human tissue. The lack of gravity in the laboratory allows the astronauts to build human tissue, a technology that Cassada hopes will revolutionize the medical field in the next 10 years. “You can just leverage
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