Welcome to the 2012-13 school year! Hope everyone has had an awesome summer! This year, the blog will feature webquests that can be used by students and teachers alike. To use or to assign to your students, just have them highlight and copy and paste into a document. This is a great teaching tool to students in the classroom as well as students who might be absent from school. For those of you (teachers and students alike) who are new to the blog, each photo is clickable and takes you to a website relevant to astrobiology and scientific ballooning!

MESSAGE FROM CATHERINE! Dear Team, By now everyone should have had the opportunity to consider the NASA Education Project Final Report Format Terry sent out. I'm assigning each team member to take responsibility for gathering data necessary to develop our final report and deliverables to NASA. These documents, projects, etc, will be brought to the RETREAT on JULY 26th. close to completion. I'd like all of us back on line together the week of July 9th. to confirm progress. Please do add to listings input where your expertise can provide us with accomplishments for cross project analysis and reporting. EVERYONE: Photo's, video, uploaded Amy Johnson: Overall evaluation data and program evaluation: Lynn, Monroe, Rocco:Scientific report on the astrobiology research and final scientific results from the ballooning mission. Jeff, Shannon, Kinyua,Monroe: Compile lessons presented in classrooms incorporating all STEM elements including engineering. Specifically, hands on research experiences. Danielle, Amy, Doug, and Diane: Compile astrobiology lessons and research projects in conjunction with Jeff, Sharon, Kinyua, Monroe to build our ballooning curriculum. Sharon; Provide engineering standards (lessons) and lectures. Lynn, Rick, Lynn Darnell, Rocco: Organize ballooning field guide steps for future ballooning educators and enthusiasts. Monroe, Lynn, Doug: Provide Astrobiology Science Conference poster, abstract, and experience as part of the curriculum Gail, Monroe: Evaluations, reviews from Fellows classroom experiences Diane: Print blog entries and provide in a journal for deliverable URL Catherine, Sharon: Compile all media pieces throughout grant I am available to talk to each of you and am open to input in regards to any critical data to include. Happy Fourth of July! Catherine

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And the countdown begins!!!! Space Day was at Winthrop High School. My MoonKAM team ran a live mission at Space Day! A great time was had by ALL.