Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Blondie's class had the opportunity to take a field trip to a Space Camp that a group runs in Pleasant Grove. A day or two before the field trip I got a call from Blondie while she was at school asking if I could go on the field trip as a chaperone. After making some phone calls and arrangements for MJ, I was able to make it work so I could go along with them. As luck would have it, our bus broke down on the way there so we had to wait on the side of the road for some mechanics to come with another bus - but first we had to be pushed by another bus to get us to a place where we could safely transfer everyone from the broken bus to the replacement bus. Unfortunately this made us more than an hour late for the field trip which meant they had to shorten the activities to try and fit everything in. The group I was in started out by eating lunch and then they broke into groups of 2-3 people and created a rocket out of some supplies that they were given. They each gave a name to their rockets and then they competed against each other to see which group's rocket would fly the farthest. After that they participated in a "Star Trek" like simulation where everyone was given a specific job on the space craft and they were given some brief instructions on their mission and then they went through a simulation with lights and aliens and a mission to complete. As parents we sat and observed. I think the whole activity would have been more fun if they had had more time, but I think they enjoyed themselves nonetheless.
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| This is "Heart Attack" |
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| Blondie at her duty station |
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| They turned the lights down once the simulation started. |
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