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The Millennium Force at Cedar Point might fill the needs of most people who want an upside-down, inside-out experience, but Hilliard’s Jill Yuricich said she needs a bigger thrill.

Yuricich, 22, a 2011 Davidson High School graduate and a fifth-year senior at the Ohio State University, completed a five-day course in October at the Project PoSSUM workshop at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. PoSSUM — an acronym for Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere — is a study of the upper atmosphere.