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Educational project offers tour of rain forestsHundreds of teachers in the Clark County School District are getting ready to take 20,000 pupils on a technological tour this spring to rain forests in North and South America.The teachers recently participated in a training session at Durango High School for this school year's JASON Project, an educational journey designed to excite and engage pupils in science and technology. The project will culminate March 1-12, when the Peruvian Amazon and its inhabitants are brought live, through an interactive system called telepresence, to pupils worldwide. Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic wreckage, founded the JASON Project in 1989. After receiving thousands of letters from school children who admired his Titanic work, he devised a way for children to interact in his explorations, using specialized curriculum, classroom activities and the Internet. This is the sixth year the school district has participated in the project, which is now in its 10th year. FULL TEXT
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