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The article offers information on the astronomy project of student Piper Reid in her sixth grade and continued to aim high. It says that Reid met 2006 Nobel Prize winner John Mather. It states that Reid won the 2012 Priscilla and Bart Bok Award from the American Astronomical Society and Astronomical Society of the Pacific. It adds that Piper's project won the first place in Physics and Astronomy and second place in the ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair.

The article focuses on insights about galaxy evolution. The basic types of galaxies are spirals and ellipticals. In 2007, the concept of Galaxy Zoo was developed as a way to classify large numbers of galaxies and by July 12, 2007, galaxyzoo.org went live on the Internet. A chart is presented illustrating the rapid increase in the number of galaxy classifications since the launch of the Galaxy Zoo project.

Features the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club's System for Handicap Accessibility, Recreation, and Education (SHARE). Purpose of SHARE; Origins and funding of the project; Equipment used in the SHARE system; Advantages of the system in terms of accessibility to the handicapped; Plans and activities of the group for the handicapped and grade schoolers.

The article reports on the decline of donations for the projects of Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) which include the SETI@home, astronomy's first big citizen-science project on the Internet, and the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) which shut down in April 2011.

The section introduces articles within the 70th anniversary issue, including a feature about the founding of the magazine, a cover story about Galaxy Zoo, and an article about the arrival of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Dawn mission at Vesta.