{"id":151679,"date":"2024-07-16T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=151679"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T19:05:14","slug":"wyso-public-radio-wright-state-alum-elementary-teacher-grows-tree-from-seed-that-orbited-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/07\/16\/wyso-public-radio-wright-state-alum-elementary-teacher-grows-tree-from-seed-that-orbited-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"WYSO Public Radio: Wright State alum, elementary teacher grows tree from seed that orbited the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/07\/16\/wyso-public-radio-wright-state-alum-elementary-teacher-grows-tree-from-seed-that-orbited-the-moon\/rachel-tebbe-2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-151680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-151680\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2024\/07\/Rachel-Tebbe-2-1-508x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a>A\u00a0Coldwater Elementary School\u00a0teacher was selected from 1,300 applicants to receive one of the 50 sweetgum seeds that rode in\u00a0Artemis II\u00a0when it orbited the moon in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Tebbe planted the seed back in May. And now it&#8217;s a five-foot-tall tree that she visits nearly daily.<\/p>\n<p>A Wright State Lake Campus graduate, the university said Tebbew completed the application for one of the moon trees back in September while a senior at the university.<\/p>\n<p>The tree is located by the school\u2019s football field, off a side road near another sweet gum planted in 2016. The school is in Mercer County near\u00a0Grand Lake St. Mary\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing to denote how special the tree is \u2014 for now. Tebbe said a planting party will be scheduled with activities and a contest to name the tree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce it\u2019s named, we\u2019ll get a plaque with information about the tree,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Tebbe visits the moon tree daily to be sure it is well, and if she can\u2019t be there, she said the school generously steps in.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyso.org\/news\/2024-07-15\/ohio-elementary-teacher-grows-tree-from-seed-that-orbited-the-moon\">wyso.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Coldwater Elementary School\u00a0teacher was selected from 1,300 applicants to receive one of the 50 sweetgum seeds that rode in\u00a0Artemis II\u00a0when it orbited the moon in 2022. Rachel Tebbe planted the seed back in May. And now it&#8217;s a five-foot-tall tree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/07\/16\/wyso-public-radio-wright-state-alum-elementary-teacher-grows-tree-from-seed-that-orbited-the-moon\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":151680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151687,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151679\/revisions\/151687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}