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Her trip to Africa was no junket: 8th-grade teacher takes part in research project.

The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC )

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Byline: Steve Lyttle

Sep. 6--Michelle Kaszuba spent her summer just like many of us did.

She went to the beach, visited the mountains, and spent some time in the countryside. Unlike most of us, Kaszuba did all that in Africa. An eighth-grade science teacher at Sedgefield Middle School, Kaszuba spent most of July in Kenya, doing research for that central African nation's government as part of an Earthwatch Institute project.

She researched the impact of lions, leopards and hyenas on the livestock herds of nomadic people in Kenya, and she studied the quality of groundwater that people use for cooking, drinking, bathing and washing clothes. And when all that was done, she spent time volunteering at an orphanage…

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