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Apple Valley, Calif., Students Helped NASA with Landing of Mars Probe.

Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)

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Byline: Emily Berg

Jan. 12--APPLE VALLEY, Calif. -- Last summer, 14-year-old Sarah Underwood and her fellow students rose early in the morning and headed off the school at the Academy for Academic Excellence to do a few high-tech chores for NASA. Five months later, the students' work has paid off in a big way -- as part of the Mars Spirit probe that is capturing attention around the world.

"It was pretty exciting to see that I had a part in something that happens only once in a life time," Underwood said.

Students at the Academy for Academic Excellence, the charter school associated with the Lewis Center for Educational Research, collected data from…

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