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NASA aims to inspire teachers through workshops

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at the Aero Institute in Palmdale Calif., recently to help teachers from across the
Antelope Valley bring the adventures of space into the class room. Stoked and inspired — Oro Grande High School teacher Mark Gutierrez grabs a poster after a NASA workshop.
Gutierrez said his class wrote essays and won the chance to speak to several of the astronauts on the poster as they
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age of living space in the International Space Station and compare it to their house. the Antelope Valley to help inspire STEM education.

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now back in the Antelope Valley with her Italian husband and daughter.

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www.aeroi.org.

To view the space station as it passes over head, visit www.spotthestation.nasa.
gov.

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