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These local high school students are helping NASA

Students from Phoebus High School prepared their breakfast dish in March at HUNCH's Preliminary Culinary Challenge at NASA's Langley Research Center.
Students from Phoebus High School prepared their breakfast dish in March at HUNCH’s Preliminary Culinary Challenge at NASA’s Langley Research Center.

HAMPTON — Area high school students will be recognized for their efforts in helping NASA.

The 2018 high school students United with NASA (HUNCH) to Create Hardware Program Recognition Ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. May 24 at York High School.

Teams of students from Virginia and North Carolina participated in HUNCH events at NASA Langley in March, which included a culinary and design competition, according to a news release from NASA.

As finalists, their food and engineering projects were sent to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for judging by panels of astronauts, agency researchers, the space station program office and private industry professionals, according to the news release.

In its 15th year, the program aims to develop high school students by highlighting their talents in order to contribute to the missions of NASA.

Students from Phoebus High School in Hampton, New Horizons Woodside and Denbigh Aviation Academy in Newport News participated.

This story was published in partnership with our sister publication, HNNDaily.

Sarah Fearing
Sarah Fearing
Sarah Fearing is the Assistant Editor at WYDaily. Sarah was born in the state of Maine, grew up along the coast, and attended college at the University of Maine at Orono. Sarah left Maine in October 2015 when she was offered a job at a newspaper in West Point, Va. Courts, crime, public safety and civil rights are among Sarah’s favorite topics to cover. She currently covers those topics in Williamsburg, James City County and York County. Sarah has been recognized by other news organizations, state agencies and civic groups for her coverage of a failing fire-rescue system, an aging agriculture industry and lack of oversight in horse rescue groups. In her free time, Sarah enjoys lazing around with her two cats, Salazar and Ruth, drinking copious amounts of coffee and driving places in her white truck.

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