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University Liggett Student to Take Part in NASA Program

Tori Wuthrich will spend a week at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Far out.

That’s the news for student Tori Wuthrich, who will spend a week this summer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Wuthrich, a Grosse Pointe Woods resident, will be one of 80 girls nationwide to take part in STEM, a program where students will work alongside female NASA engineers and interns to design a mission to Mars.

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Wuthrich applied for the program after hearing about it from teachers Kim Galea and Andrea Champagne.

Wuthrich applied and was accepted into the first part of the program, which included assignments in math and space exploration. She was then accepted into the second part of the program at the Johnson Space Center based on her performance in the first part.

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“I thought that even if I wasn’t accepted to the Johnson Space Center portion, it would be a good experience,” Wuthrich said in a release provided by University Liggett.

A Merit Scholar who will be a senior at University Liggett, Wuthrich hopes to study aerospace engineering in college.


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