Middle school and high school students from across the country descended on the State Dining Room at the White House for the first White House Science Fair.

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Across the country thousands of elementary, middle and high school students are feeling the impact too.

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Also, while the probes are in orbit, NASA is running a project in conjunction with middle school classrooms around the country called the GRAIL MoonKAM.

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"It's very upsetting, " said Alex Ragone, director of the middle and upper school at City and Country School in Manhattan, which runs through eighth grade.

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On a day when countless eighth graders across the country saw their orthodontists and fretted over potential dates for the middle school graduation dance, Guan calmly played in the world's most famous golf tournament in a threesome that included Ben Crenshaw, the 61-year-old former Masters champion who is old enough to be Guan's grandfather.

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