Hometown Flair
ADAMS TWP — Several Mars High School students will offer unique exhibits and more during the Mars Exploration Celebration, set May 31 to June 2 in downtown Mars.
Zachary Griffiths, a senior, and Patricio Beltran, a sophomore, will offer a Drone Zone hands-on drone learning experience.
The exhibit, sponsored by Drone Addiction, will teach participants how to build and fly small drones.
It also will allow them to practice flying on a drone simulator and to watch a pre-programmed autonomous drone exploration of a 10-by-12-foot Martian landscape created by senior Haylea Rieger and juniors Alexis Barger, project leader, and Haley Alexander, Alexis Barger, Mina Beach, Nicole Newtzie and Jathan Snavely, members of the school's Art Club.
In addition, members of Mars High School's Gifted/Enrichment Club designed and built a “Mars Escape Room,” which will be offered beginning at 4 p.m. Friday at Mars Public Library.
The experience will give participants 45 minutes to escape their Martian captors and launch their return journey to Earth before a fatal amount of cosmic radiation invades the Red Planet. Admission is free and sign-ups will be available at the library during the celebration.
Juniors Michael Crowley and Adrian Zugehar and sophomores Ellie Coffield, Elizabeth Long and Theodore Ruffner were awarded a Mars Planet Foundation grant to fund the project.Participants also included seniors Mia Giglietti and Jenna Protho; junior Matthew Gourash; sophomores Brooke Burnfield, Dawson Cadamore, Chloe Ceasar, Aiden Devaney-Nance, Ellie Howell, Mia Ola, Alyssa Schulties and Abigail Scott; and freshmen Jordan Banks, Audrey Gehm, Kyleigh Gianfrancesco, Sarah Hooper, Raghav Kalbhor, Lauren Miko, Edward Page, Max Solich, Austin Wagner, Luke Weiland and Morgan Weitzell. All have been meeting both before and after school to build the Escape Room.Also Mars School District's STEAM teachers and selected students in grades two through eight will offer an exhibit during the celebration on Saturday and Sunday. The students will demonstrate tools and projects they have worked on throughout the school year in their STEAM classes.
