Hope Street Summer of Science camp tries out their homemade rockets at Griffith Park in Los Angeles on Friday, June 21, 2024. The youth are members of the Hope Street Margolis Family Center’s after school program in downtown Los Angeles. Eighty-five pairs of small hands launched rockets—assembled out of recycled plastic bottles, multicolored duct tape and construction paper—dozens of feet into the summer sky at Griffith Park on Friday, June 21.
Wearing matching blue T-shirts and exhilarated smiles, the “Summer of Science” participants range from first graders to high school students. Hope Street Summer of Science camp tries out their homemade rockets at Griffith Park in Los Angeles on Friday, June 21, 2024. The youth are members of the Hope Street Margolis Family Center’s after school program in downtown Los Angeles. “It is actually good to go out, and I don’t want to be stuck at home all day doing nothing,” Caleb Nerrio, 14, said. “Instead I can play soccer and basketball and do the rockets. It’s a lot of fun.
Some of the Hope Street staff who helped guide the rocket launch are graduates of the program themselves. Roberto Camacho, a biochemistry major at UCLA, was a Hope Street student for nine years. Now he works there in the summers, paying forward a love of science.‘He was an adventurer’: Anthony ‘Tony’ Spear, chance-taking former JPL manager, dies at 87