Astrofest at BYU!

To Whom It May Concern,

The BYU Physics and Astronomy Department is excited to announce BYU AstroFest, a fun interactive astronomy event for kids and families on Saturday May 22, 2010, on BYU campus. We would appreciate it if you would let your scouts know about this event through you, their leaders and their parents.

The purpose of AstroFest is to educate and excite children and their families about space and science through hands-on learning activities. Some these activities include building and launching your own rocket, making your own constellation finder, and a planetary scavenger hunt. In addition there will be free planetarium shows, physics demonstrations, lights and lasers shows and planetary atmosphere presentations. We will also have a solar station with activities about solar energy, solar ovens, and solar telescopes for safe viewing of the sun. We are happy to announce that this year we will be having a Mars Mission Training Center, where children and families can “climb” the tallest mountain in the solar system, and complete astronaut fitness training in our obstacle course. AstroFest will then conclude later in the evening with a telescope star party.

This event is FREE and open to the public from 10am-4pm with activities ongoing throughout the day. All AstroFest activities can be easily tied into any science, astronomy or scout curriculum. In addition we have free educational material from NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope to give away. Please let your leaders and scouts know about this free educational event. We look forward to seeing you there and sharing our love of the universe with you!

For more information please visit our webpage at Astrofest.byu.edu. The website includes a flyer that can be downloaded for distribution. If you have specific questions please e-mail astrofest.byu@gmail.com or call Heather Jones at 801-422-5372.

Thank you!

Denise Stephens, Faculty Advisor

Heather P. Jones, AstroFest Coordinator

AstroFest Committee

A Comment on the Space Center Found on the Web.

Hello Troops,
This was posted to YouTube about the Space Center. I enjoyed reading it and thought to pass it along to you.
Remember, regular imagination recharges keeps you young at heart. Use botox for the rest :)

Mr. Williamson

And Now, The Comment:

Oh Man. . . I remember 6th grade. . . I was assigned to the Odessy, with the hardest mission they had. Oh man. . . one of the scariest moments of my life was spent on that ship. I was tactical, and a few years later, my little brother went on a variation of the same mission on the same ship, but as engineering. Same reaction. The best moment of the mission for me though was near the end. I was starting to have an advantage on the enemy, but they shut it off as I was about to destroy him!

Snowing on a Friday. When will it stop?!!!

The Imaginarium presents Utah's Weather Complaint Department

Hello Troops,
About to get ready for my Friday morning ritual. Up, Get Ready and off to WalMart to purchase the Overnight Camp groceries. I just looked out the window. There is snow on my deck! Enough is enough already.

That said, I'd better get going. The Space Center doesn't run itself you know. Hope to see you all in the Trenches real soon. We have many patients suffering from imagination dehydration and never enough time to administer Wonder's Water - a Space Center Mission!

Mr. Williamson