Wednesday, March 14, 2012

5 from area win grants for study in Britain

Andrew Lewin began his space career in his Palatine home bybuilding a Lego model of a space shuttle orbiter with operationalpayload doors.

He has gone on to the Massachussets Institute of Technology tomajor in aeronautics and astronautics, helped build a space rocketand worked on a project that flew on a space shuttle mission thisyear.

Lewin is one of five Chicago area scholars and 40 nationwide whohave been awarded the British Marshall Scholarships for 1992. Asixth area student is a native of Maryland.

The scholarships were initiated in 1953 by the Britishgovernment to show appreciation to the United States for the aidreceived after World War II under …

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