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Local student studies at Mount St. Helens
GeoGirls participants pose for a group photo during an outing near the Johnson Ridge Observatory, which provides a viewpoint for Mount St. Helens.
LIND - A local girl spent a five days learning about volcanoes and Mount St. Helens earlier this month.
Makayla Phelps, 13, of Lind, attended the GeoGirls program near Mount St. Helens from Aug. 12-16.
"I thought it was really cool," Phelps said of the program. "It was super fun."
This year, 20 middle school students - including Phelps, a Lind-Ritzville eighth-grader - and four high school students participated in the outdoor program offered through the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory and the Mount St. Helens Institute. Five girls came from Eastern Washington, including P...
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