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Christa McAuliffe Center Reopens At Framingham State University 38 Years After Challenger Disaster
"Christa was not a science teacher, she was a social studies teacher," said director Iren Porro.
January 29, 2024
FRAMINGHAM - From interactive robots to a state-of-the-art planetarium, the newly-renovated Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State University opened its doors over the weekend.
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The McAuliffe Center was originally created in 1994 as a way to honor the FSU graduate and first teacher in space, who was killed in the Challenger space shuttle disaster in January 1986. The new center is designed to serve students no matter what their career dreams may be.
"Christa was not a science teacher, she was a social studies teacher," said director Iren Porro. "So the fact she wanted to go to space, to me, speaks volumes about how she already had this idea of integration."
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