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Two students in a classroom pack up their soil experiment to send to NASA

When it comes to high school science projects, few reach the heights achieved by a group of students at the School of Environmental Studies (SES), a District 196 magnet school for high school juniors and seniors.

Competing in NASA’s prestigious TechRise Student Challenge, these ambitious students spent months designing, coding, and building a custom experiment that will be sent soaring into microgravity.

The image features a colorful logo with the text "Academics. Arts. Athletics" surrounding a stylized symbol, and below it is the text "DISTRICT196" with the tagline "One District. Infinite Possibilities."

District 196 is celebrating 36 high school seniors who earned recognition in the 2026-27 National Merit Scholarship Program for scoring among the top 5% in the nation on the PSAT, a standardized national exam taken during the junior year in preparation for college entrance exams.