CONWAY — Four advanced manufacturing students at the Mount Washington Valley Career and Technical Center at Kennett High School will boldly go this summer to where few high school students have gone before — to Houston, where they will be interning for NASA.
Senior Ben Biche, sophomore Jack Heysler, senior Trent Littlefield and junior Everett Yannelli are among just six high school students nationwide to be chosen by NASA to intern for six weeks this summer.
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