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BROOK JONES / FREE PRESS Grade 7 and 8 science, technology, engineering and math teacher Maria Nickel is pictured holding a modle of a Space Shuttle while in her classroom at École Stonewall Centennial School in Stonewall, Man., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. The 54-year-old teaches STEM 8 Option students about the Canadian Space Agency's Rover Driving Academy with the company's mission control. Student teams were able to command via a remote computer accesss program a rover on a simulated lunar surface that the Canaidan Space Agency is developing in Longueil, Que., to go to the moon's surface.