Woodstock High School’s new industrial technology teacher Austen Luedtke wants his students to know they may not need to go to college right after high school to have a chance of working on a project taken to space by NASA. Before Luedtke came to Woodstock High School, he worked for Spring Grove-based Scot Forge, where he performed the rough machining on the wheels used by NASA on the Mars rover Perseverance that landed last week on the red planet’s Jezero Crater.
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