Octavia Mckethan

Octavia is a role model. She loves helping others in her classroom and at activies. She loves to read. Loves space and learning new things.

Placed 9th

in their group

Thank you for supporting Octavia Mckethan in this year's competition. Your participation made a huge impact for The Planetary Society and their mission to inspire curiosity and help shape the future of space exploration for everyone.



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Why They Love Being a Student

She comes home and tells me things she learned at school. She likes doing math facts and reading. She loves to draw and dance as well. She loves helping her teachers, too. Art and music are fun to her as well.

Favorite Subject & Why

Its a hard choice between Math and computer. Math because she gets to add and subtract numbers. She been trying to learn some multiplication on her own. Computer because she really liking learning coding.

How $20,000 Would Support Their Goals

20 thousand most could be put back for college. Some can go to stem camps that she would love to do. Or to have some coding classes. She has lots of diffrent carrers she wants to do. Currently teacher, firefighter and poliece officer are at the top of the list among other things.

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