JEFFERSON — Nancy Hamper has been on a mission the last week as she learned all about traveling in space during a camp for educators at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Hamper is a science teacher at Jefferson Area High School, has started a robotics program for junior and senior high school students and coordinated a summer robotics camp for those in elementary school.

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