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He is visiting the city this week to meet students accepted into a space and engineering camp in Houston and to look at future prospects for distance education.
Mr Reilly says through a virtual classroom, students in outback NSW are receiving a better education than in many parts of the United States.
“The distance learning program that you have here in Dubbo is something that’s quite impressive,” he said.
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