Gloucester: Stephen Sacca, right, an MIT alumnus of East Gloucester, helps Brian Matos and Kirsten Salo, both eighth grade students at O'Maley Middle School, cut pieces of wood to make an Eastern Bluebird Nestbox yesterday. All eighth graders will make nest boxes through the project, which focuses on how to use tools so they can apply that knowledge to study manufacturing. The project is sponsored by the Gloucester Education Foundation's Sea Initiative, a collaboration between the Gloucester Public Schools and MIT. Photo by Kate Glass/Gloucester Daily Times

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