Elon Musk Makes Surprise Visit To Flint, Michigan Elementary School

An anonymous reader quotes the Detroit Metro Times:
Tech billionaire Elon Musk surprised students at an assembly at Flint's Doyle-Ryder Elementary School on Friday, announcing the creation of a new STEM-focused junior high school and inviting some students to tour his SpaceX rocket factory in California... Students will be selected by the district based on academic merits, with funding for the trip provided by the Musk Foundation.

'My hope is to inspire the students of Flint to want to make things, just as I did as a child and as a young engineer,' Musk said, according to the statement. 'I want students to know that through hard work and a belief in themselves, they can pursue and achieve the unimaginable....'
Musk became involved with Flint thanks to Twitter trolls. After Musk tried, and failed, to develop a miniature submarine to rescue a soccer team trapped in a Thailand cave last summer -- Thai Navy SEALs beat him to the punch, rescuing all of the party -- Twitter users goaded him into doing something to help Flint.

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