ROANOKE TIMES Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times DATE: Saturday, January 25, 1997 TAG: 9701270049 SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-1 EDITION: METRO
LENGTH: Short : 20 lines ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO: STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS STAFF. 1. Crystal Springby CNBElementary fourth-grade teacher Dave Merritt tosses Katey Hauck's
science project, the Apollo Egg USA, off the school roof. Enclosed
in each student's project was an egg. Merritt's class is studying
space flight and how the early modules were designed to land. 2. The
students gathered at 9:30 a.m. to watch their projects touch down;
many eggs broke. One student said, "I learned the more padding
around the egg, the less chance it has of breaking." color.