Searching the sky 2,000 miles from home
On clear summer evenings, I sit on the lawn of William L. Buck Elementary School in Valley Stream — a five-minute walk from my house — with a telescope I was given four years ago at my bat mitzvah.
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On clear summer evenings, I sit on the lawn of William L. Buck Elementary School in Valley Stream — a five-minute walk from my house — with a telescope I was given four years ago at my bat mitzvah.
Kavish Kondap, a Francis Parker High School, recently took part in a Summer Space Program, where he researched an asteroid and whether it was a danger to hitting Earth.
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Even before he started competing on a robotics team in middle school, Kavish Kondap knew he wanted to pursue a career in engineering.