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Students Predict Invisibility, Light-Speed-Travel in 50 Years

In this Patch video a team of rocket 'scientists' from Newark Junior High look 50 years ahead and see colonies on Mars and under the oceans -- if we don't destroy ourselves.

 

Newark Junior High has some remarkable students in its rocketry program.

Led by award-winning science teacher Tom Collett, these students have earned a place in a nationwide competition -- if they can raise the money to get there.

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School Board members Charlie Mensinger and Gary Stadler, and school district classified union president Susan Condon are leading a fundraising effort toward that end. (Learn more about that here.)

Meanwhile, Patch asked these precocious seventh and eighth graders to look ahead 50 years. Hear what they say in this video.

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