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| InfiniD's Brooks Heder with students from the Zion International School of Phnom Penh |
InfiniD Learning and the Zion International School of Phnom Penh introduce Cambodia's young astronauts to the world of experiential learning through simulation.
Last summer, Brooks Heder travelled to Cambodia to establish InfiniD's first out of country computer lab/ simulator at the Zion International School of Phnom Penh. ZISPP is a private school founded by David Moon, a co-founder of iWorlds and the creator of the Valiant simulator currently used at Telos Academy in Vineyard. Dave was the LDM mission president in Cambodia.
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| Zion International School of Phnom Penh |
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| Setting up the InfiniD Lab |
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| The InfiniD Lab |
The ZISPP is a private school for preschool-4th grade located in the country's capital, Phnom Penh. I asked Brooks to write up a short description of the school and its location:
In the middle of a frenzy of moto's, tuk tuks and people within the capital Phnom Penh you find the school. A big green metal door on a small alley road indicates the entrance. Within is a small open compound with several rooms connected by outdoor hallways. When you go inside you take your shoes off out of respect, and the space they have is kept very tidy, they are really grateful for the school. Most of the Teachers are foreigners coming to help. But the staff, cooks, Maintenance and such are all native Cambodians.
The InfiniD lab will be customized to try and impact all the kids at the school. At times all it might be is a space waystation were little kids need to simply say their name and how old they are, for more advances groups we can incorporate the curriculum further.
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The school is a english school, so they try to speak it as much as possible. I was really surprised by how well some of the kids spoke! In face some of them spoke better english then the staff. In the missions, we will try to have them speak english as much as possible. This will be great for them to have discussion and conversation in ways they are not used to, which will help them increase knowledge in English and their subjects.
The Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center's Dedication Plaques
I asked Jon Parker to be kind enough to snap pictures of the simulator dedication plaques for the blog. Each plaque highlights the dedicated people who made that ship possible.
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| Stacy Carrell and Kyle Herring in front of the David Kyle's Galileo I |
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| Erin Williams in front of David Kyle Herring's Second Galileo at the Space Center |
The Discovery Room was once a 4th grade classroom. Then, when the Magellan was created, the classroom was redesigned to be the Magellan's Briefing Room and a school science resource room under the direction of Janeal Nuttall. The Discovery Room was the brain child of Dan Adam's, Central's principal at the time. Dan, Kyle Herring, and Mark Morrison constructed the room.
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| Casey Voeks briefing a Magellan summer camp crew in the Discovery Room 2007 |
The USS Phoenix was built to take the place of the Falcon, our weekend and summer cafeteria planetarium bubble dome ship. It opened on May 18, 2005. The staff weren't too happy about giving up their built in the wall bunk beds, but progress demands sacrifice.
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| The Phoenix Today |
The Magellan is another simulator rebuilt on the ashes of a former simulator. The Magellan plaque shows the information for the new Magellan opened on July 7, 2006.
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| The Magellan I around 2001. In this photo you see Kevin Anderson, Landon Hemsley, and Stephen Porter. |
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| Today's Magellan |
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| A summer crew of the New Magellan's first summer camp season. 2007. Sarah Glad is in this photo. |
The Odyssey? Sadly we don't know where the original Odyssey's plaque ended up. The search is on. As for the new Odyssey, there isn't a dedication plaque. The new Odyssey was started under my watch in 2013 and finished after I retired.
The Voyager's dedication plaque hung above the spiral staircase on the Voyager's Bridge. Today, the Voyager's plaque hangs in the back of my classroom at Renaissance Academy.
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| The Voyager's Bridge. The Voyager's plaque is on the right side of the photo above the spiral stairs |
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| The Voyager's Plaque |
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| The Voyager Plaque in my classroom at Renaissance Academy. It hangs next to the Dr. Who Tardis. How Appropriate. |
InfiniD Sets Up Shop at the Utah Capital
Last month InfiniD Learning converted room 170 in the Utah Capitol Building into an InfiniD lab simulator and ran demonstration missions for the legislators and visiting school children. Kendrick Gines was the flight director.
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| School children waiting in line for the demonstration |
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| Casey warned the tax office next door that their might be a bit of noise and to let them know if it was bother. They let him know.... |
Space News
By Mark Daymont
SpaceRubble.Blogspot.com
Soyuz MS-06 Returns to Earth with Expedition 53/54
On Monday, February 26 the Expedition 54 came to an end during a Change of command ceremony. Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov will command the station starting Expedition 55. They will be joined on March 21 by astronauts Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel (NASA) and Oleg Artemyev (Roscosmos).
Expedition 54/55 enjoying space before the Change of Command Ceremony.
The Soyuz capsule landed on the cold wintery steppes of Kazakhstan early on Tuesday. They were quickly joined by recovery crews flying in by helicopter and were carefully retrieved from the cramped descent module. For Soyuz commander Alexander Misurkin, he now has his second spaceflight complete. He took part in a record-breaking Russian EVA on February 2, and now has a total of 4 spacewalks in his resumé. Astronaut Joe Acaba has now completed three spaceflights, with three EVAs total. Astronaut Mark Vende Hei has completed his first space mission, and now has a fantastic four EVAs to his credit.
Imaginarium Theater
The Best Gifs of the Week Edited for a Gentler Audience
Imaginarium Theater
The Best Gifs of the Week Edited for a Gentler Audience
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