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Around 350 seventh-grade students from Grain Valley's two middle schools have spent the last two weeks exploring a traveling Smithsonian exhibit focused on American democracy.

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The exhibit, titled "Voices and Votes: Democracy in America," arrived in Grain Valley earlier this fall through Missouri Humanities and will remain in the community through December 13. KSHB 41 News previewed one of the exhibits during Let's Talk Grain Valley.

"I saw a little bit about the Declaration of Independence, little bit about the Boston Massacre and a lot about rights," said Beckett Nolte, a seventh-grade student at Grain Valley North Middle School.

Fellow seventh-grader Zyra Joy Bautista said the exhibit helped her understand historical events better.

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