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Cheers of “Go, Team Del Duca!” ring out from a kindergarten classroom in Elsmere, where students are following the Winter Olympics in a unique and personal way.

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Enter Project Jedi, which launched in 1984. The project was a five-month experiment named after “Star Wars’” Jedi knights.