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Will Quinoa Grow in Microgravity? Roman Medina, Baron Petersen, Colin Brandel, ​Spencer Frost & Hunter Dodds are out to answer that question. ​Team Quinoa has officially been chosen as the flight experiment team for Clark County.  Their experiment will be sent to NASA and will go up to the International Space Station in the spring.  These boys were creative, and worked hard.  We are so proud that they are The Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) engages students from fifth grade through college level in preparing proposals for experiments to be conducted in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station.  Students work in teams of three to five and prepare a very detailed experiment proposal according to very specific instructions in the SSEP Proposal Guide.  Each proposal consists of seven distinct sections and must be completed within a specific time period.  All proposals completed in our community were judged, and the top three proposals were sent on to a second round of judging by SSEP officials in Washington, D.C.  One proposal from Clark County was chosen to actually fly to the International Space Station next spring for further testing.  There will be 37 other experiments from other communities around the nation also going. Congratulations to our Team Quinoa for being chosen for Clark Each year, Clark County School District conducts a staff, student, parent survey to get feedback about your opinions on Walker and other CCSD items.  The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete.  Your opinion matters to us! Each year, the state releases the Nevada School Rating for schools.  For the 2017-18 school year, Walker was rated as a 4-star school.  While this is a great rating, it is down one star from the previous year.  The good news is that we achieved well above the District Opportunity Gaps. In an effort to improve in those areas, we are working to identify why different subgroups are struggling.  If you