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A Joplin, Mo., high school's science program is going to be able to keep going thanks to a $5,000 grant from the American Water Charitable Foundation.
The money will be used to fund future research projects, the Joplin Globe reports.
"Science Research does not have a working budget of its own," teacher Karisa Boyer says in a statement.
"One of the larger grants we received just after the tornado, the Whitmire Foundation grant, is coming to an end and I was really worried about how to keep this program going after the next couple of years."
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