Inver Grove Heights Week in Review March 27 through April 3

Last Monday, Inver Grove Heights Patch a team of Inver Hills Community College students who have built and are testing a 10-15-foot-tall rocket that they will eventually enter into the 2010-2011 NASA University Student Launch Initiative (USLI) competition in Huntsville, Ala. The students expect the rocket to travel as much as one mile up into the atmosphere.

The flooding Mississippi River made headlines on Wednesday and Thursday. City officials predicted the river would above sea level. By Friday, the water level had dropped slightly from its crest, measuring 696.5 feet above sea level at 64th Street in Inver Grove. The its doors until the water recedes further.

The Simley High School wrestling team got a chance to meet Gov. Mark Dayton at the State Capitol, when Dayton with the Governor's Cup award on Wednesday.

Inver Grove Heights police believe a series of in March may be related, and are looking for a 6'1'' white male who was caught on tape during one of the burglaries. All three restaurants, the Cahill Diner, Bierstube and Pizza Man, are within a two-block radius on Cahill Avenue.

Patch ended the week with an of the growing diversity in local schools. School officials say that 25 different languages are spoken by students in the Inver Grove Heights School District. In 2010, minority students made up more than 25 percent of the total student enrollment in Inver Grove.