MICHAEL KIRAL / L’Observateur / February 22, 1999

BOUTTE – Over 200 Luling Elementary kindergarten students got a chance to experience science hands-on as the Space Shuttle Encounter came to Hahnville High School last week.

The inflatable space shuttle is a mini I-MAX theater presented by Edu- Flation Innovations of Kenner. The film showed life on the shuttle fromtakeoff, showing how the astronauts do everything from eating to conducting experiments aboard.

“It is an in-school field trip,” Mac Graf of Edu-Flation said. “We come toindividual schools. It is continuing education.”The Space Shuttle Encounter was a part of Health and Human Services Week’s Project Pal Science Day at the school. Project Pal is a Learn andServe grant-funded project in which ninth and 10th-grade students serve as mentors for kindergarten students. This was the third event this yearthat Hahnville High School students have done with their pals from Luling Elementary.

Besides the Space Shuttle Encounter, Science Day also included science lab experiments designed by the high school students in the school’s new science building. The elementary students worked hands-on witheverything from biology to earth science to physical science. In oneclassroom, students were read facts about the dinosaurs while in another they blew bubbles and held balloon races in physical science experiments.

At the end of the day students were given cookies baked by the special education students at Hahnville.

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