Chicago student shoots for the stars, lands at White House
Posted October 22, 2015 11:00 pm
Scarlett Garcia took her first trip on an airplane earlier this week, but that thrill was nothing compared to her destination: White House Astronomy Night.
"It was all very, very exciting," said the Logan Square 12-year-old. "Who gets this type of experience, to go see the president and look through a telescope at the moon?"
President Barack Obama greeted the young attendees. Jaime Hyneman and Adam Savage of the Discovery Channel show "MythBusters" also were on hand. Scarlett heard from four of NASA's newest astronauts, and she tried out a virtual-reality headset to see what it would be like to walk on Mars. She even got to meet Bill Nye, the former host of a children's science show.