The Space Race at school: students pursue challenges

“We chose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” emphasized President John F. Kennedy in his famous 1962 moon speech.

Aside political motivations of the Cold War, JFK believed that the inevitable growth from overcoming adversity was reason enough to pursue a challenge.

Many students at Lind-Ritzville High School agree: engaging in rigorous classes is the only way to improve oneself as a scholar and as an individual.

The upper level electives in the course-loads of many students reflect such ambition and drive. Not limited to...