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Article: TASK FORCE HOPES TO SPARK INTEREST IN LOCAL CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- April 17, 1996
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CROWN POINT
Northwest Indiana rolled onto the launch pad of its own space age Tuesday afternoon, when it received approval for a Challenger Learning Center.
The action by the Challenger Learning Center for Space Science Education in suburban Washington, D.C., came about a year after a committee of teachers and parents started their quest for such a center.
There will be a long countdown before the $1.8 million center is ready to open, said Lisa Karney, a sixth-grade teacher at Lake Street School and co-chairman of the Challenger Center Task Force.
''We've got a lot to do, but I am really excited about the approval,'' she ...