A Busy Saturday at Farpoint: Thorium Starship Controls Demonstration. Advanced Medical Training for the Cadets. The Young Coders Earn their Keep. Meet the Young Astronauts. The Imaginarium.

The Space EdVenturing Big Wigs PowWow on the Bridge of the Voyage with Alex and Crystal Anderson.
Left to right: Matt Ricks, Casey Voeks, Jon Parker, James Porter, Isaac Ostler,  InfiniD's Lead Programmer, and the Andersons.

Thorium Starship Controls Demonstration  

It was another busy Saturday at Renaissance Academy's Farpoint Space Education Center.  Alex and Crystal Anderson demonstrated the power of the new Thorium Starship Controls to representatives of the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center, Farpoint, and InfiniD.  Read all about this revolutionary starship simulation bridge control system and see screenshots of the controls by visiting this blog page.  

Impressed isn't a strong enough word to describe the reaction from the group.  Everyone left the meeting with a clear understanding of what Thorium is and what it can do to simplify flight directing while at the same time delivering a rich, rewarding experience for the crew.  Thorium is open sourced. It will run on any platform and any number of computers;  Galileo? no problem.  Voyager? no problem.  Magellan? no problem.  

    

The time Alex spent as a volunteer and flight director at the CMSEC changed his life, which is why Alex is committed to developing Thorium for the masses.  

Farpoint's Young Astronaut / Voyager Coders

Farpoint's Young Coders Club meets Saturdays from 8:00 - 9:30 A.M.  With two classes to go, we're nearing the end of our current GoogleCS unit.  I let the young coders vote on which CS unit they wanted to do next.  Video game design was by far the favorite so video game design it will be. The eight-week course starts in January.    

Farpoint's Young Coder's Club

Advanced First Aid for Farpoint's Voyager Cadets

Isaac Ostler taught an advanced first aid and CPR workshop Saturday morning.  The class is offered as part of Farpoint's officer training program.  Young Astronauts and Voyagers take the class as part of their rank advancement training.   

Meet Farpoint's Young Astronaut Squadrons. Today, the 5th Grade Lions and the 4th Grade Tigers 

On Thursday the 5th Grade Lion Squadron launched on their first of seven missions for the school year aboard the USS Voyager.  The two and one half hour meeting included a mission briefing and launch. They too are faced with dealing with the evil Chancellor Alexander and his much-feared National Front.  

The Lion's sent this picture of themselves to Chancellor Alexander telling him that he has no idea who he is dealing with

The 4th Grade Tiger Squadron

 Then there's the 4th Grade Tiger Squadron.  You really don't want to mess with them. They come into this year's Young Astronaut Long Duration Mission with a year's experience dealing with the misguided Pennou slave hunter. 

Dealing with bullies is no problem for them.  "That Chancellor needs to go!" is how the captain summed up their mission.  Watch out you bullies on New Earth. The Tigers are coming for you!

Mr. Williamson

The Imaginarium