Our final day in Houston

Today is our last day in Houston :( We head home tomorrow to our families :) and Monday to our students :) We have enjoyed skypeing with our students nearly everyday. What a terrific way to keep in touch with each other. We have learned so much during our time with NASA and get to share it with everyone :)
A special thanks to all of the amazing people that we have had the privilege to work with over the last 2 weeks. Our RGO NES NASA staff, well, they're AMAZING! Keep up the incredible job!
Thank you!

Flight of the C-9!

The final flight of the week and Ms. Prows was on it! Today the zero G experiment was with the pinball machine and tornado tube. Some of the student hypothesis were correct, so we have a lot of data to review when we get back home.

After two days of our team in zero G, NO one became sick! Go team! It was not a "vomit comet" for us, but the "weightless wonder".

In the afternoon we were able to watch movies that each team created of their experiment from beginning to end, including the flight week. It was a wonderful way to end our time with NASA.

Check out Teacher Tube under RGO NASA Team to see them all.

http://www.teachertube.com/members/viewProfile.php?user=Nasargo

Flight of the 727!

Wow, what an experience. Our flight went the full distance. That means we did 30 parabolas in zero G, one in Martian gravity, and one in Lunar gravity. At the top of the parabolas we got about 25 seconds of weightlessness to perform our experiment. Mrs. Houlihan found it extremely difficult to perform the balloon rocket car experiment because she needed both hands to pump up the balloon and hold the cars. Mrs. Ruiz (Ms. Sarah), our mentor, kept time on the stopwatch to see how long it took the cars to travel down the track. We were surprised with the results. The cars took longer to travel down the track in zero G then in earth's gravity. The card balloon rocket car performed better then the paper plate balloon rocket car.

After our flight we had our entire team do a DLN (Distance Learning Network). It was a huge success! We had over 300 students, 15 teachers, and 12 parents in attendance. We were able to tell the students about our flight and the children asked some wonderful questions.

Tomorrow, Ms. Prows will fly, wish her luck.

Exhausted!

Oh what a day! I am exhaused so, I will write in the morning.
Til then....

Flying High!

Well, the day has come, we are flying in Zero-G today with the students experiments. Everything our students have worked for and created will be put to the test of micro-gravity today. Congratulations boys and girls, job well done. We will be sending the data to you today for the balloon rocket cars. We will talk to you after the flight. Wish us luck!

Experiment Loaded on the Zero G Plane

We started the day with skypeing back to the kinders this morning. It was SO exciting. We had 3 wonderful NASA experts, 2 mentors and 1 director of the NASA Education program, talk to the students. They learned about the different education levels, types of degrees, and the jobs the men hold. The students were then able to ask questions. What a wonderful opportunity for North Ridge students.

Wow, we can't believe tomorrow is the day to fly!! It was a busy day. We fine tuned our experiments, loaded them on the Zero G plane, were issued flight suits and briefed on anti-motion sickness via a video and speaker. So much information to take in, but we were told not to panic. We should take it slow and easy on the plane, no quick movements. If we follow this advice, the flight should be fine. We are definitely taking the expert advice. Wish us luck.

See you at the DLN.

DLN April 29, 2010

Just a reminder: Our DLN is scheduled for Thursday, April 29 at 11:20. Four of our team members will be getting off of their flight between 11:00 and 11:15, so, please be patient. The DLN should be in the MPR. See you after the our flight.