September 2003
Santschi, Darrell R. "Jupitor Serves up Just What Students Ordered." The Press-Enterprise [Riverside CA]
21 September, 2003
Sixteen-year-old Keith Kucera came to school Sunday to "learn the basics of our world." Fifteen-year-old Joey Bean came "because they were going to crash something into a planet. Big explosions are cool." 11 year-old Zack Lynch came bacause "I like space and wondered where my tax dollars are going." They each got a taste of what they wanted, pointing a 34-meter radio telescope at Jupitor to take the Planet's temperature asthe spacecraft Galileo plunged to destruction in the atmosphere.
Esparza, Christina L. "Lewis Center Students Track Galileo's Demise." Daily Press [Victorville CA]22 September 2003
Inside the Lewis Center for Educational Research, two large screens are hanging on the wall, in front of a backdrop of a painted mural of outerspace...NASA officials on Sunday crashed the speacecraft Galileo into Jupitor, and those at the school were tracking any effects, namely temperaturem resulting from the collision.
Muzslay, Leigh. "Apple Valley Pupils Track Space Probe Crash." San Bernardino Sun22 September 2003
When his 11-year-old son begged to go to school on a Sunday afternoon to track data on the Galileo spacecraft's crash into Jupitor, Danny Lopez was skeptical. "I never did that when I was in school," Lopez said. "Sports, that was the thing. But this doesn't make (science) seem nerdy. They make it cool."
Berg, Emily. "Science Cracks Them Up." Daily Press [Victorville CA]27 September 2003
Third-graders craned their necks and cheered as boxes, tin cans, and even a rocket designed with Styrofoam cups plummeted to the ground from the top of a fire truck ladder. Third-graders at the Academy for Academic Excellence scrambled to examine their inventions as they hit the ground.