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Logan West (center, left) and Emma Hyde stand among a sea of classmates traveling through the hallway to their destinations, simulated boats, during an Ellis Island immigration event at Cary Junior High School on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 in Cary. Approximately 300 seventh grade students participated in the exercise, which took them to various stations in the school to experience what it might have been like to travel to a new country and go through the immigration process.