The Troubadour: Farpoint Space Education Center's WebDev Programming Department. The USS Voyager's New Isolinear Panel from Rickco Starship Outfitters. Who Has the Coolest Sci-Fi Halloween Classroom Door in Utah County? Do You Even Need to Ask? Mr. Williamson of Course! The Imaginarium.

Farpoint Space Education Center's WebDev Programming Department

Farpoint is the proud home to WebDev, a computer programming group headed by Alex and Crystal Anderson, Matt Ricks, and Isaac Ostler. The group meets every two weeks on a Saturday morning in the Starship Voyager's Briefing Room. WebDev uses the expertise and experience of seasoned, practicing programmers to teach the next generation of Starship programmers. Several Renaissance Academy students, along with students from other Utah County schools, have joined the group.

Isaac is covering something to do with changing colors in code. Having no experience in programming, my job is to highlight their fine work, not understand it.

Riley and Zach are getting pretty good. This was their third meeting with the group.

Samantha, Ivy, Jody, and Jane are focused.

WebDev is a perfect fit for Farpoint and Renaissance Academy. Farpoint sponsors three, eight week Saturday GoogleCS programming classes for beginning and moderate student programmers every year. Nearly 50 students completed the courses last year. I expect more will participate this year. WebDev is the natural next step in their education.

Alex and Crystal Anderson volunteer their time to administer the program. They all volunteer to teach and mentor. With Renaissance Academy's sponsorship, the group is free to all.
Are you interested in programming? Does a FREE programming class sound appetizing? If so, read more about the WebDev Group here. Come join the fun. Come imagineer possibilities.

Mr. Williamson

The USS Voyager's New Isolinear Panel from Rickco Starship Outfitters

The Starship Voyager is the proud new home of another Matt Ricks original masterpiece. May I introduce you to the USS Voyager's new Rickco Starship Outfitters Isolinear Panel Model V1 housed on the Voyager's bridge nestled into bulkhead wall between security and the left wing.

It took a bit of demolition to install. It's the kind of work that brings a smile to Matt's face.

After installation came the wiring. That's wasn't easy, but nothing the technicians at Rickco couldn't handle.

Connecting the IsoPanel to the Voyager's Control Room was the next adventure. Matt and Isaac Ostler spent the better part of a short evening on the project, and when all was said and done, they boasted of what the new panel would mean to future missions. "All future Voyager engineers will once again feel the stress we remember from working the original Voyager's isolinear panel," Matt explained.

The panel is in and programmed into the control room.

The next step is to program the panel to meet the ship's mission needs. Matt and I imagineered a new isolinear panel operating system which will make the panel highly effective in all situations yet absolutely simple to control by a flight director. I pity anyone assigned to be the ship's engineer.

We will have too much fun with this new addition to the Voyager experience.

Mr. Williamson

Who Has the Coolest Sci-Fi Halloween Classroom Door in Utah County? Do You Even Need to Ask? Mr. Williamson of Course!

Connor and Sean stand in front of my classroom door at Renaissance Academy admiring their mother's work - another masterpiece of door art. Mary O'Hara adopts one classroom per year as the repository of her original artwork. I was the lucky one this year.