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February 2003


Berg, Emily. "Students Send Condolences to NASA." Daily Press [Victorville, CA]
12 Feb. 2003

After two days of collecting contributions, students at the Academy for Academic Excellence had about 150 signatures in the condolences book they plan to send to NASA.

Lovato, Michelle. "Remembering." San Bernardino Sun
10 Feb. 2003

Warm rays of sun danced in the hair of about 100 kindergarten-through-second-grade students as they sat outside on a cool February morning peering at a concrete and bronze mass that didn't make much sense to them.

Berg, Emily. "Strong Enrollments Help Charter Schools." Daily Press [Victorville, CA]
7 Feb. 2003

Educators is California are holding their breath to see how much money the Legislature will pull from their school budgets to resolve the state budget crisis, and charter school operators are no different.

Lovato, Vince. "Space Class Explores Depth of Loss, Height of Hopes, Ideas of Future." San Bernardino Sun
5 Feb. 2003

If Kevlar doesn't burn, why not make space suits out of it? Why not coat the shuttles in Kevlar? Why not put the shuttle in a ball so it can roll when it lands?

Berg, Emily. "Educators say Adventure to Win out Over Fear." Daily Press [Victorville, CA]
3 Feb. 2003

Humanity's drive for adventure and knowledge of the unknown will win out over fear, local science educators say. In spite of Saturday's loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven crew members, officials at the Lewis Center for Educational Research believe the program will continue and kids will be astronauts when they grow up.

Lovato, Vince. "Teacher Showed her Students How to Track Columbia." San Bernardino Sun
1 Feb. 2003

Patty and Howard Rifikin were up before dawn Thursday in the yard of their Apple Valley home to track the space shuttle Columbia across the wast desert sky black as ink and spangled with silver stars. She was so excited that she showed her math and space students Friday how they could track the shuttle Saturday morning.