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Casey Voeks at Adobe's Headquarters in San Jose, California

      Who better to spread the good news of experiential education through simulations than our good friends and partners at InfiniD?  InfiniD has mastered the art of educational simulations; and using that understanding, successfully crafted the starship experience developed over the last 28 years at the Christa McAuliffe Space Center and other Space Education Centers into an affordable computer lab based experience.  It's The Space Center experience for the masses.
     On Friday InfiniD's leadership took a road trip to Adobe's World Headquarters at San Jose, California.

   

     It was Adobe's Field Trip Extravaganza, put on yearly for the children of Adobe's employees. InfiniD was asked to run simulations throughout the day.  Last year InfiniD took the mobile starship Titan. This year they showcased the new InfiniD by converting a meeting room into a starship bridge. Adobe was getting the real InfiniD experience.  

The meeting room at Adobe waiting to be converted into a Starship.
See how easy it is for any school, worldwide, to have a simulator of their own.

InfiniD's Skyler Carr outside Adobe. It's Showtime!

     Step One:  The Room Conversion. A few lights, a few laptops or Chromebooks (InfiniD's controls are browser based so they can run on any platform) set up the sound system and the ship was ready for launch.

     Step Two: Set up the posters.  InfiniD ran two different missions, one for the little ones aged 4 to 7. and another for the 11 - 14 age range.  

     With the room (ship) ready for launch, the first crews were anxiously waiting.

     Kendrick Gines, InfiniD's master flight director, directed the missions in the same room with the young astronauts.  This is the InfiniD way.  Teachers can monitor the class and pace the curriculum much better by being in the room rather than sitting in a control room watching from a camera.  In a way, flight directing in the same room is really old school. I ran the first starship simulations in room 19 at Central School back in the Spring of 1983 in the same room with my students. I sat behind my desk with an overhead and boom box cassette player.     

Kendrick is visible on the far left.

Notice the simplicity of the set up.  Easy to used. Easy to understand, and highly effective. 
Notice the effects lighting on the floor. That is all it takes. 

      Of course it was a hit.  Adobe's youngsters loved the experience.   

      They say an army marches on its stomach.  The same is true of a starship crew.  Casey, Skyler, and Kendrick took a lunch break between missions to recharge for the afternoon flights. 
      InfiniD is doing great things.  They will be in 80 schools throughout Utah by the start of of the 2018-2019 school year. That number grow as the months pass and more and more schools realize the value of this unique educational experience for their students.  
     "To InfiniD and Beyond!"  

Victor

     Please enjoy a fun video of a group of campers from UVU PREP filmed aboard the USS Galileo at the Christa McAuliffe Space Center this last week. From within the chaos a bit of team work and quick decision making seems to have saved them for now.

     UVU PREP is a free STEM Summer program for middle and junior high students, which provides three summers of rigorous academic instruction, educational hands-on projects, challenging homework assignments, daily career awareness and field trips.   

     The program allows 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students who have an interest and aptitude in Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics fields to receive accelerated curriculum in preparation for high school and higher education. UVU PREP strives to provide opportunities for underrepresented and first generation students to pursue STEM studies and careers.

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