CONWAY — A line at the beginning of the "Star Trek" television series — “To boldly go where no man has gone before” — pretty much captures the advanced machine-tool program students at the Mount Washington Valley Career and Technical Center at Kennett High School.
Teacher Andy Shaw and his students are doing out-of-this-world things, literally. Shaw and his machining students are in their fifth year partnering with HUNCH (High school students United with NASA to Create Hardware), and they’re working on a project that astronauts can’t wait to get their hands on.
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