Middle-schoolers win back-to-back NASA competitions

EVANSTON — For the second consecutive year, Evanston Middle School (EMS) science teacher Ashley Graham’s eighth graders have won a NASA TechRise Future Engineers challenge. Last year’s eighth graders won the challenge with a high-altitude balloon design, though this year’s class unanimously voted to draft a proposal for a 3D mapper and thermal rocket-powered lander. “They are only one of sixty winners on both missions and the only winners from Wyoming,” Graham proudly explained.