Seven years before Rylee Arnold and Hailey Bills slayed the Dancing With the Stars season 34 stage, they were both junior pros on the younger iteration of the ballroom competition.

In 2018, DWTS aired a junior version of the competition where a slate of child stars or kids of celebrities competed for a star-shaped mirrorball trophy. The cast included Ariana Greenblatt, Miles Brown, Mackenzie Ziegler and Olympian Sky Brown, all of whom were partnered with a preteen dancer and mentored by a DWTS professional dancer.

For instance, then-pro Lindsay Arnold served as the mentor and choreographer for sister Rylee’s partnership with Black-ish alum Brown.

“Being on DWTS on its own was a dream for me, and being on DWTS with my youngest sister, every single day when I went into work, I was mind-blown,” Lindsay, who won season 25, told Closer in 2018. “I’m so proud of the way that she handled everything, because it’s tough. She was so mature and handled it so well, and it just made me have a really, really strong appreciation for her.”

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Rylee was 13 at the time, and at 18, she became a first-time pro on the legacy competition during 2023’s season 32. Two years later, she returned to the show for her third season, while Bills, who is fellow pro Jenna Johnson’s niece, made her debut in the troupe.

Keep scrolling to see where the rest of DWTS Juniors pros are now:

Rylee Arnold

Celebrity Partner: Miles Brown

DWTS Mentor: Lindsay Arnold

After making her DWTS Juniors debut, Rylee returned to her native Utah to finish middle and high school. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating when she was cast as a pro on the OG series. Rylee’s been paired with Harry Jowsey, Stephen Nedoroscik and Scott Hoying during seasons 32, 33 and 34, respectively.

Hailey Bills

Celebrity Partner: Tripp Johnston Palin

DWTS Mentor: Jenna Johnson

Bills and Tripp, the son of Bristol Palin and ex Levi Johnston, were the first couple eliminated from the junior show. In the years since, Bills continued dancing and performed with judge Derek Hough at a Savannah Bananas game in September 2025. That same month, Bills joined the DWTS season 34 troupe.

Brightyn Brems

Celebrity Partner: Mandla Morris

DWTS Mentor: Cheryl Burke

After dancing with Stevie Wonder’s son, Brems showed off her skills on World of Dance, America’s Got Talent and her high school drill team. Brems also models and choreographs in her free time.

Artyon Celestine

Celebrity Partner: Ariana Greenblatt

DWTS Mentor: Brandon Armstrong

Celestine, a child performer from A Christmas Story Live! and Lip Sync Battle Shorties, has since started an acting career. His credits include Attaway General, Drama Club, S.W.A.T. and Blaze and the Monster Machines.

Outside of performing, Celestine graduated from high school in June 2025.

JT Church

Celebrity Partner: Sky Brown

DWTS Mentor: Alan Bersten

Church was the runner-up on the younger version of So You Think You Can Dance before he and Brown won DWTS Juniors. Church still dances, with credits that include The Music Man’s Broadway revival, This Is Us, Drama Club and Christmas Waltz. Most recently, Church appeared in a Los Angeles Opera production of West Side Story in fall 2025.

Kameron Couch

Celebrity Partner: Hudson West

DWTS Mentor: Hayley Erbert

Couch graduated from the Orange County School of the Arts in June 2025 before enrolling at the University of Southern California to earn a BFA in dance. She also danced music videos for DJ Snake’s “A Different Way,” Kesha’s “My Own Dance” and multiple projects for JoJo Siwa.

Jake Monreal

Celebrity Partner: Sophia Pippen

DWTS Mentor: Sasha Farber

The ballroom dancer has made the leap into the filmmaking world as he entered his early 20s.

“A huge and rewarding undertaking independently producing my first film,” Monreal wrote via Instagram in March 2025. “It’s the first of many to come in this next juncture of my life all due to my tirelessly dedicated and fantastic crew and talent who I can’t thank enough. Eagerly pursuing what’s to come next in acting and directing!!”

Tristan Ianiero

Celebrity Partner: Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson

DWTS Mentor: Artem Chigvintsev

After appearing in the ballroom, Ianiero danced on Netflix’s 2022 adaptation of 13: The Musical. He now choreographs and teaches intensive classes in New York.

Lev Cameron Khmelev

Celebrity Partner: Addison Osta Smith

DWTS Mentor: Keo Motsepe

Khmelev released his debut music single, “Messed Up,” in 2022. He’s since released songs “All Night,” “Stalling,” “Embarrassing, “Lunar Love” and “Trust Issues.”

Kamri Peterson

Celebrity Partner: Akash Vukoti

DWTS Mentor: Witney Carson

Peterson is still dancing in Los Angeles, even assisting Rylee and fellow DWTS pro Ezra Sosa at the Press Play convention in October 2025. She’s also attended several season 34 live tapings.

Sage Rosen

Celebrity Partner: Mackenzie Ziegler

DWTS Mentor: Gleb Savchenko

After Rosen tangoed with the Dance Moms alum, he worked on projects with Kylie Cantrall, Olivia Rodrigo and acted in The Secret That Binds Us. Rosen recently danced on the DZ: Worlds Collide Tour in 2025.

Elliana Walmsley

Celebrity Partner: Jason Maybaum

DWTS Mentor: Emma Slater

Walmsley joined DWTS Juniors after appearing on Dance Moms’ mini team. As she entered her teen years, Walmsley continued dancing and also started acting. Her credits include Girl Talk, Kylie Cantrall’s “Denim” music video, Classroom Confidential and Chicken Girls. Walmsley launched her fragrance line, Escapade Beauty, in 2025.

Scientists have for the first-time grown plants on lunar surface material known as regolith which had been collected 50 years before by Apollo astronauts.

Researchers used three of those samples to experiment. This comes just at the beginning of the Artemis era and the return of astronauts to the moon.

During the research, scientists grew Arabidopsis thaliana, a plant in the mustard greens family. Just like every player prefers a darmowa kasa za rejestrację bez depozytu when gaming, so do scientists prefer using the arabidopsis plant as a model organism in all plant biology studies since it’s small in size and it grows with ease.

As a result, they are already aware of its genes and how it responds when growing in different environments.

The team worked with teaspoon-sized samples collected from the Apollos 11, 12, and 17 missions. They used wells in plastic trays as pots and each well was filled with a gram of lunar soil. They then added water and a few seeds to the samples.

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The trays were put in a room and a nutrients solution was added daily. Seeds planted on volcanic ash and controlled earth soil were also part of the samples.

To the surprise of the scientists, they all sprouted after two days. They all looked the same until day six when they began growing differently depending on the type of sample they were in.

Plants grown on control earth soil and volcanic ash grew more robust than those on lunar soil and it was now clear that the regolith was not as hospitable for growing plants although it did not interrupt the signals and hormones involved in seed germination.

Some of the plants grown on Lunar soil grew more slowly, they had stunted roots, and some had reddish-black pigments on their leaves, a revelation of just how difficult it is for plants to grow on lunar soil.

Plants growing on Apollo 11 samples struggled the most as they turned purple, a sign that the soil had already been exposed to the harsh space environment but plants growing on Apollo 12 and 17 were doing well.

The plants were however harvested after 20 days just before they started to flower for RNA study. The study revealed that indeed the plants were stressed, and their reaction was like how Arabidopsis thaliana responds to growth in other harsh conditions such as when the soil has heavy metals or excess salt. Through this study, the researchers could also determine efficient ways of avoiding stressors for plants grown on lunar soil.

NASA, the body that conducted the study termed it a breakthrough in their long-term human exploration objectives. They aim at utilizing the available resources on the moon and other planets to create food resources for future astronauts operating and living in deep space.

The research is also a proof of how NASA is putting efforts into unlocking agricultural innovations which can clarify how plants grown in areas with food scarcity here on earth can overcome stressful conditions.
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