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SALT LAKE CITY — A community of refugee students and their families, scientists, educators and celebrated an event three years in the making: the installation of five cosmic ray detectors atop the Department of Workforce Services’ Utah Refugee Center building in Salt Lake City.
The detectors were built by nearly 60 participants in a program called “Investigating the Development of STEM-Positive Identities of Refugee Teens in a Physics Out of School Time Experience or"InSPIRE." The data from the detectors will be recorded at the Utah Refugee Center building and then transmitted to the University of Utah daily.
“One of the reason that I focused on refugees because of my own story,” Nyawelo said."I left my country. And then when I ended up in Europe, then I was faced with many, many challenges culture, in educational things. And when those students came here, I see there's a lot of challenges that they're facing in the school system. They are not well represented in science and technology at all.
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