Jun 4 1997
From The Space Library
The Los Angeles Times reported that the students of Glassell Park Elementary School had sold an astonishing 32,000 candy bars, to pay the way for all 115 of its fifth graders to attend the U.S. Space Camp at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Most of the school's 951 students participated in selling candy to send their older classmates to the educational camp. Principal Beatrice LaPisto said proudly of her students, "This is a poor neighborhood. Most children here, for example, are on the free lunch program. But these are the brightest, best, most motivated students you'll find anywhere." This year was the first in which the nonprofit U.S. Space Camp Foundation had expanded its operations to the California site.
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