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BLAST off: W&M launches passion for STEM in Virginia high school students
A group of high school students leans forward in anticipation as William & Mary Professor of Physics Irina Novikova lowers a balloon into the horizontal path of a bright green laser beam. When the yellow balloon doesn’t pop like its red predecessor, an …