Christa McAuliffe Space Center Lobby Concept Rendition
For 28 years you stepped into the lobby of Central Elementary School whenever you visited the Space Center. I know what you were thinking when you did it the first time. "There's a Space Center here?!". Perhaps the old school 1956 architecture made you question the directions given on Google. And just before you turned to leave in search of the real Space Center, a member of the staff came to greet you. Kindly you were escorted into the world of the future hidden ever so cleverly behind those old brick walls. Well, those days will soon be over. In 2020 you'll step straight into the adventure in the new Central Elementary and Christa McAuliffe Space Center soon to be built to the west of the current building.
Thanks to Allie's artistic skills you can see a concept design for the new lobby. It is designed to include a galactic ceiling mural with backlit donation plaques for major donors. This is just one of many ways those of us associated with the Space Center want to say thanks for inspiring the next generation of explorers.
Why are you still waiting to donate?
The Original Donation Plaque
I had this plaque made to thank and honor the many people who helped me create the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center nearly 28 years ago next month. The Space Education Center was our gift to the children of Utah. I named the Space Center after Christa McAuliffe, the pioneering first teacher in space who died aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. I chose to honor her legacy by building an educational center dedicated to exciting kids to reach for the stars - the final frontier.
I retired from the Alpine District and the Space Center in 2013. James Porter is the new director, a highly talented educator and long time Space Center volunteer and employee with the vision, imagination, and calling to continue the center's mission far into the future. James is facing a deadline to raise the funds necessary to build the new Space Center and Planetarium in the soon to be constructed Central Elementary School. Join the Friends of the Space Center and invest in our program. If you can help us tag the business, individuals, or family members to pass on our thanks we would appreciate it.
Who is going to be on the next plaque? #nextadventure #CMSC2020 spacecenter.alpineschools.org/donate
Improvements to the Starship Valiant at Canyon Grove Academy
Maeson Busk sent the following two pictures showing a few improvements to the Starship Valiant berthed at the Canyon Grove Academy docks in Pleasant Grove.
Plumbing is something rarely seen on a starship on TV or in the movies. The USS Voyager had the first exposed pipe (actually a metal support beam but let's not get too technical). It sat just as you entered the ship from the school's stage revolving door. I labeled it the ship's Digester Blowline (I liked the name - it sounded very toilety, something you'd never want to burst in battle). Nobody ever asked about its purpose so I never had to admit that a digester blow line was part of the paper making process.
Fast forward to today and the Starship Valiant continues the Voyager's love for exposed plumbing. I want to thank Maeson Busk, Director of the Canyon Grove Center, for thinking of me when he labeled the pipe. What greater way to honor the Founder than by naming a water pipe after him. Well, perhaps Jon Parker should get credit for naming a ship after me, the USS Victor Alan, in the telling of one of his stories. Sadly it is the ship first to go down in battle. I believe the captain forgets where the "Raise Shields" button is located.
Accompanying my name is the number 062458, a number well known in Space Center lore - my birthday, a number used in a few missions for this, that, and the other. We need more of these semi-hidden easter eggs in our simulator sets.
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| Another improvement in the Valiant. Engineering panels. Well Done Maeson and Team. |
InfiniD Announces a New School to the Utah Fleet of InfiniD Simulators
The Troubadour welcomes a new InfiniD Lab located in the Davis School District at Sarah Jane Adams Elementary School in Layton, Utah into the growing network of schools that house experiential learning simulators inspired by the original USS Voyager. Grades 1 - 6 will participate in the simulator's missions. This new InfiniD Lab takes the official number of simulators both past and present to 63. The Simulator Database is accessible by clicking on the link on the blog's sidebar.
Are you curious about InfiniD? Did you think there were only a small handful of starship simulators at a few local Utah schools: The Christa McAuliffe Space Center, The Telos Discovery Space Centers, Renaissance Space Academy, The Lions Gate Center?
If so, you are mistaken.
InfiniD is the world's fastest growing network of school-based, computer lab simulators committed to continuing the vision of simulator-based experiential education pioneered in my 6th-grade classroom back in 1983 and fine-tuned and expanded with the building of Simulator 1 the USS Voyager in 1990. Today nearly 40,000 students across Utah are applying what they learn in the classroom on an InfiniD mission.
InfiniD is the world's fastest growing network of school-based, computer lab simulators committed to continuing the vision of simulator-based experiential education pioneered in my 6th-grade classroom back in 1983 and fine-tuned and expanded with the building of Simulator 1 the USS Voyager in 1990. Today nearly 40,000 students across Utah are applying what they learn in the classroom on an InfiniD mission.
To summarize; InfinD's mission is to provide every school worldwide with an experiential simulator of their own. That's a big goal and they're determined to make it so.
Take a moment and learn more about the future of education with InfiniD.
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