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SUMPTER - WAYNE
SUMPTER - WAYNE

Flying high

District students’ proposal will be on board Space X craft

Fifth-grade students at Winter-Walker students will be winning mission patches will
Winter-Walker Elementary the first from the district to be ” spend four to six weeks on the
School in the Wayne-Westland flown to the space station. The team created a project centered ISS and then be returned to the
Community Schools district are After nine weeks of research, around cultivating lion's students embossed as “flown in
over the moon after learning a experiment design, and proposal space.”
recent class project will be an writing, a national panel of mane mushrooms in space. The Student Spaceflight
experiment on the International experts selected the Winter- Experiments Program is a pro-
Space Station. Walker proposal to be on board gram of the National Center for
Students worked for several an outgoing SpaceX spacecraft. Earth and Space Science
weeks designing and testing The students' work will spend a tively set to go to space in June Students in grades K-12 will Education (NCESSE) in the U.S.
microgravity experiments for the few weeks on board the ISS after and will spend four to six weeks also have the opportunity to and the Arthur C. Clarke
2022 Student Spaceflight blasting off from Kennedy Space aboard the ISS, where astronauts design a piece of art commemo- Institute for Space Education
Experiments Program Mission Center atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 will follow instructions provided rating Wayne-Westland internationally. It is enabled
17 to the International Space rocket. by the student team to complete Community Schools SSEP through a strategic partnership
Station. Students from Adams The team created a project the investigation in space. Then, Mission 17 experience, and one with Nanoracks LLC, which is
Middle School, Franklin Middle centered around cultivating the results will be returned to winning patch from grades K-5 working with NASA under a
School, John Glenn High School lion's mane mushrooms in space Earth, and the students will com- and one patch from grades 6-12 Space Act Agreement as part of
and Stevenson Middle School and the project is currently pare those that went into space will be selected to accompany the utilization of the
also worked on the design proj- undergoing the optimization with identical samples that the Winter-Walker Elementary International Space Station as a
ect, but the program prepared by process. The experiment is tenta- stayed on Earth. experiment to the ISS. The two National Laboratory.
Sumpter trustees approve Five Year Recreation Plan

The purpose of a public hear- at a future date and be publicly $300,000 and $150,000 for park ”
ing regarding the proposed Parks discussed before any action projects. He said that a brief sur-
and Recreation Master Plan in would be taken. vey of township residents deter- The Jan. 10 hearing was scheduled
Sumpter Township Jan. 10 The Jan. 10 hearing was mined that priorities were use- solely for public input on the proposed Parks
apparently confused some of scheduled solely for public input able facilities for children and
those in attendance. on the proposed Parks and seniors and trail development at and Recreation Master Plan for the township.
As audience members contin- Recreation Master Plan for the the current township parks. He
ued to question plans for the ren- township. That agenda item was said there was no consensus
ovation and reconstruction of the eventually approved during the among those surveyed of the
parks, officials repeatedly regular meeting of the board location of trails but the preserv- he said. ship repurpose one of the police
explained that there had been no members which followed the ing of natural resources was He said the park had been cars being replaced and use the
plans as yet submitted or pro- public hearing. important to township residents damaged and neglected during vehicle for security at the park
posed for any such major park Chris Nordstrom who worked who responded to the survey. the past two years and the drug which he described as "a simple
project. Officials explained that on the five-year plan said he One resident questioned the problems at the parks "have been solution."
the plan being discussed for thought the plan presented to the proposed plan saying that he a disgrace." He told the board "It's only one mile to the
approval was the five-year parks board members met the believed there were only 24 members that the lavatories at MetroParks with more ameni-
and recreation plan which did expressed wishes of township responses to the survey which, the parks were unusable and that ties," he said, criticizing previous-
not include any major renova- residents. He told the board he said, was not a good indicator vehicles speed up and down the ly discussed suggestions for
tions or changes. Those plans, members that there were grants of what people in the township streets leading to the park reconstruction or improvements
trustees explained, would come available in the amounts of want. "People like it the way it is," entrance. He suggested the town- at the park.

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