Sixth-graders at Columbia Middle School were given a portal into space exploration Oct. 3 by Dr. Pascal Lee, a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute and NASA Ames Research Center.

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Lee spoke to students about his Mars research and what it would take to travel to the red planet, including how the science and math they’re learning could be applied.

The school visit was made possible through a grant awarded by the Ames Contractor Council. The Sunnyvale Education Foundation worked in partnership with Sunnyvale School District librarian Julie Griffin to obtain the grant, which also helped pay for new space science books in both the Columbia and Sunnyvale middle school libraries. Each library will receive approximately 22 new books in both English and

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