IMAGE GALLERY: 5th Annual Christa McAuliffe Remembrance Event

The Christa McAuliffe Charter School remembered its name sake with its 5th annual science fair for grade 8 scholars.

The Framingham-based charter school is named for the late teacher in space Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, who grew up in Framingham, and graduated from Marian High and Framingham State. She tragically died when the NASA space shuttle Challenge exploded in January of 1986.

Since 2011, on the 25th anniversary of her death, the charter school has been holding a science event in her memory. The event was created by science teacher Dan Anderson.

Students research space topics, like volcanoes on Venus, the violent death of stars, and engineering of rovers, and present their findings to judges.

The 5th annual event Christa McAuliffe Remembrance event was held Thursday, March 5.

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