Northrop Grumman brings Camp Invention to Hawthorne students
Zela Davis students and fourth grade teachers Raquel Dickert and Rick Logue with their balloon popper invention. Photos by Steve Tabor, Associate Superintendent If Redondo Beach resident Raquel Dickert taught in the Redondo Beach school district, Camp Invention would have been a wonderful, though not unusual program for her students. The camp was offered at Alta Vista School in Redondo Beach (median household income: $89,000) last week. The price for the camp was approximately $240 per student But Zela Davis elementary School in Hawthorne (median household income $42,000), where Dickert teaches, is a Title 1 school. Over 80 percent of the students are on the free or reduced price lunch program. Camp Invention, a nationally acclaimed science camp, is financially out of reach for most of their parents. Zela Davis students the spaceship they designed to escape from Planet ZAK. Nonetheless, like their Alta Vista counterparts, 52 Zela Davis students were able to attend Camp Invention last week. Their fees were covered by a $12,000 grant from Redondo Beach’s Northrop Grumman Education Foundation. The Hawthorne school was chosen to receive the grant because of principal Kathy Carbajal’s…
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