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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"When you hear about a high schooler fitting 60 people into their house at once, it’s usually for a party when parents are away, blissfully unaware until they return to a few broken items or suspicious stains.

Ron Nachum's parents, however, knew exactly what was going on. In fact, they were home.

But his 60-person hangouts aren't for parties - their meetings are meant to attract students passionate about a single mission: launching a liquid-powered rocket into space and potentially, someday being the first-ever high school group to do so.

Together they’re known as Project Caelus, a group based out of Alexandria’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology that was founded in 2018.

Along with dozens of students at any given meeting in the Nachum garage, there’s also about $25,000 worth of equipment, from gas tanks to metal scraps - all purchased through the students’ own fundraising efforts. The team shares a detailed timeline of their past work and future goals on the website, with a current plan to do an initial launch of their first liquid-fueled rocket in June of this year. The experiment will eventually lead to their ultimate goal of sending a final rocket all the way into space."

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-high-school-rocket-space-thomas-jefferson-alexandria/65-a8ca7e44-7215-45c5-8aae-d6239a5d88d6[/quote]

Maybe this kid is truly passionate, but this is exactly the kind of article that parents get published for their kid to "prove" passion in the kid's EC as part of the college application package.  Look at the $$ they are able to spend for the kid.  [/quote]

+1. Marketing.[/quote]

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