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Saturday, May 9, 2015

The New Voyager's Walls Take Shape. The Phoenix Squad Finishes the Third Round of the LDM. The Imaginarium.

The New Voyager's Walls Go Up

The New Starship Voyager's walls started to take shape in Friday's construction at Renaissance Academy.


The hallway leading to the bridge.  Go to the end and turn left.


Walk down the hall and step onto the Voyager's Bridge.


The Voyager Bridge will have three levels.  The lower level is mapped out with the Capt's station identified.


I'm standing on the lower level looking toward the mid-level and top level in the back.


This is the doorway leading to the Brig, Sick Bay, and Engineering.




There will be a ramp here leading down from the Bridge's mid-level.  Go to the bottom of the ramp and turn left.


The Brig is seen on your left with the first set of bunks visible.


Walk past the Brig, and turn left.


The hallway curves to the right.


The Voyager's storage area is seen on the left.


The doorways to the Sick Bay and Engineering are seen on the right.


The first electrical box has been installed in the Voyager's Control Room.

Construction is moving rapidly.  Keep watching The Troubadour for updates.

Mr. W.


The Phoenix Squad:  Ryan, Aaron, Adriana, Zeddy, Carter, Affan, Scott, Dylan.  At the top, Coach Jay and Jeffrey.
Phoenix Squad Survives Round 3 of the Long Duration Mission 
The third round of the Farpoint Voyager Club's Long Duration Mission (LDM) finished last Saturday with the Phoenix Squad's mission. They were the last squad of five to tackle this mission installment. Nobody said it would be easy.  I'm happy to report that Carter led his team to victory.


This is Dylan.  Dylan was so fast at his job his hand movements created a breeze across the Magellan's Bridge.  My glasses were nearly blown off just getting this close to him for the picture.


Captain Carter was cool, calm and collected (until the mission started).


Jeffrey is the oldest on the team and known for his cool hats. He managed communications.


Aaron had the dubious honor of manning the Damage Control Station.


Zeddy enjoyed being the Chief of Security.  Just look at that satisfied expression.


Ryan and Affan during mission training.  This is the quietest I've seen them in months!



Coach Jay watches his team from the upper bridge.  It's all he can do to keep quiet during portions of the mission.

Zeddy is seen without his phaser in hand. He's trying to convince Ryan and Affan to pull him over the desk to safety if the ship is boarded.


 Capt. Carter stares with unbelief at the number of intruders who just boarded his ship.  Zeddy is explaining that he hasn't a clue where they came from.


Adriana and Affan share a joke during a Red Alert battle seen.  It's a very relaxed crew.  It takes more than Romulan torpedos and disrupters to shake their steel cool.


Capt. Carter spent most of the mission studying the battle screen.  That is until he was stunned by a Romulan intruder.  Zeddy had been safely pulled over his desk to safety by his buddies Ryan and Affan, so he wasn't of much help.


The official crew photo at the end of the round.

What the Phoenix Squad didn't know was that one of their buddies from Renaissance Academy's last year's sixth grade class was flying a five hour mission in the Odyssey across the hall at the same time they were finishing their LDM.  Jackson was there with his soccer team celebrating his 13th birthday.

  

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Friday, May 8, 2015

The New Starship Voyager Takes Shape at Renaissance Academy, Lehi.

Hello Space EdVenturers,
The day has come for the new Voyager's walls to rise.  Yesterday the contractor and crew laid out the
new Voyager's walls.  The walls started to go up today.  This will be the finest ship built to date, although some will argue - and with good reason - that the Voyager I was and will always be the finest ship.  Time will tell...

I took pictures of yesterday's wall lay out.  I'll go downstairs after I post this and take pictures of the newly installed framing for tomorrow's post.

The Voyager's Bridge


Project Manager Dal McCewan discusses the air flow with Voyager Designer Alex DeBirk


Looking from the bridge to the brig.


The Bridge as seen from the Brig.



 The curved hallway leading from the bridge to sickbay and engineering.


The hallway leading from the Room of Requirement to the Bridge is mapped out.


You make a left turn as you walk toward the Bridge.  Down this hallway and onto the Bridge.


The lower bridge is shaped like a horseshoe.



More discussions around the plans.


Finally, Looking from the back of the Bridge, through two walls toward the Sick Bay and Engineering Rooms. 

The Briefing Room, Room of Requirement, and Work Bee.


Looking from the Voyager's Briefing Room toward the Room of Requirement where Alex and Dal are standing.  The Work Bee area is on the right.



The new Voyager at Renaissance Academy will be the ship of dreams.  Renaissance Academy is a public charter school.  Call 801.768.4202 for more information on how you can enroll as a student.
Visit Farpointstation.org  for information on how you can join our Farpoint Voyager Club and be apart of this unique program.

Mr. Williamson