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From left: Goddard STEM Director Bob Gabrys, Maryland Rep. Glenn Ivey (D- District 4), astronaut Kjell Lindgren, DuVal senior Jayson Kiggundu and Aerospace Instructor Monique Scott-Hayes (Richard Elliott/The Washington Informer)
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