Student, teacher return from Space Camp
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Alexis Moore, a teacher of the visually impaired at Pattonville High School, and her student, Sitou Agbakpem, returned last week from a visit to NASA's Space Camp.
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The two journeyed to Huntsville, AL, as part of a group of 16 blind and visually impaired students (and seven chaperones) from throughout Missouri. The week-long trip is sponsored each year by the Lighthouse for the Blind in St. Louis.

While at Space Camp, Sitou completed a mission, constructed and launched rockets, learned about space history, experienced weightlessness on the 1/6th chair simulator, went through low ropes courses, braved a climbing wall, met an astronaut who signed his rocket and toured Rocket Park. The students also heard a presentation from a blind engineer who works for NASA. He shared that NASA has more than 15 people working for them who are blind or visually impaired. Sitou met other students who are blind or visually impaired from Canada, Ireland, Australia, Dominica, Oklahoma, West Virginia, South Carolina, Utah, and other areas in addition to others from Missouri.
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