An event at Wyoming Indian High School celebrated the students who worked in the High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware program. County10 reports the school has been involved since 2019. This year, the students sewed hygiene kits that astronauts will use to store their toiletries on missions. At the event, every participant and their family, plus staff, were invited to sign a panel that will be used on a spacecraft storage locker.
Nineteen eighth-grade students from Buffalo recently returned from a turtle-ey cool spring break trip to Costa Rica. The Buffalo Bulletin reports the group, along with two teachers, spent most of the time measuring and tagging sea turtles and relocating eggs to protect them from poachers with the Latin American Sea Turtles Association.
The Pitchfork Ranch near Meeteetse will be on TV on Saturday. The Powell Tribune reports the first episode of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild” features the black-footed ferret. The episode explores how conservation efforts involving the ranch have helped bring the animal back from the brink of extinction after the last 18 individuals in the wild were found there.