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High School "Rocket Man" Brett Williams Gets Kids Excited about Math, Science and Physics by Building and Launching Their Homework Into the Heavens

May 3, 2008 /

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Ever had a teacher who truly made a difference in your life? Someone who set you on a course that you really didn’t expect?

Well, the students at Fredericksburg High School in Texas have just such a teacher, and he’s turned a whole lot of kids on to subjects many of them had no interest in.

The hard ones: Math, Science and Physics!

Now, there’s a movement to take the program that Brett Williams started, and spread it across the country.

By Tom Costello, NBC News correspondent

Full Story: http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975109.aspx

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