POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS) - Students in Poplar Bluff got a lesson on space food on Thursday.

John Weis, National Aeronautics and Space Administration education specialist over the aerospace education services project, visits Oak Grove Elementary School on Thursday, Feb. 28, to teach fourth graders about space food.

Weis, who is based out of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, later presented to students at the 5th and 6th Grade Center before putting on a workshop for area teachers at Three Rivers College.

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POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS) - The Three Rivers Community College Foundation has named Natalie Nacole Killian, from Doniphan, as the first recipient of the $1,000 M.E.L. Scholarship, named for Mary E. Loughead, from Poplar Bluff.

Killian, 33, is an elementary education major at Three Rivers College. She is the mother of two and a 1998 graduate of Sikeston High School. She is married to Darren W. Killian, from Doniphan, an agent for the state Department of Conservation.

Killian at first had planned a career in nursing.

“However, after being around my two children and watching them grow, I found a new passion . . . loving kids and preparing them for their future,” she wrote in her letter of application for the scholarship.

She works as an Ambassador and Peer Mentor for Student Support Services at Three Rivers; she is active in Parent-Teacher Organizations, serves as a Boy Scouts Tiger Scout leader and is a member of the Doniphan Church of God.