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22 December 2003 Europe's first spacecraft to Mars is set to reach the planet on Christmas Day. Read a little about Mars Express and Beagle 2. 29 November 2003 Our over-extended webmaster has been buried in text books for the last many weeks but she was able to take some precious time away from her studies to make several new updates to Imagiverse.org. Check out the new interviews! Dr. Richard Murphy is a marine biologist. He has worked with Jacques and Jean-Michel Cousteau as a diver, scientist and underwater photographer since 1968 and is currently the director of Science and Education at the Ocean Future's Society. Be sure to check out his incredible underwater photographs! Doug Walker is an industrial designer. He invents or helps design new products. Most of his designs have been for medical devices but next time you mop the floor or slice a bagel, you might be using one of Doug's inventions! Maynard Smith is an artist, sculptor, cartoonist, storyteller, performer, voice-over actor and... he sings too! He also works at a major theme park which he says is more fun than work. Edward C. is a 16-year old student in England. He has high hopes and dreams and you can find out how he is making his way through boarding school towards the pursuit of his ambitions. The Q&A section has been steadily growing. Check out the new questions categorized in: Astronomy, Careers, Planetary Science, Space Flight and World Culture. Happy Holidays to all! Michelle Mock 8 November 2003 Postcard Exchange - Perhaps the best method to learn geography, and about life in other places, is to travel there. If you can't physically go somewhere, learning through an exchange of postcards with children in other parts of the country and the world is possibly the next best thing. See who we have received postcards from so far! 11 October 2003 Kees Veenenbos is a web content manager in The Netherlands. His hobby is making artistic renderings of what ancient Mars might have looked like. Kees' artwork has accompanied scientific articles, and has been presented at various scientific conferences. What does Mars and a river in Spain have in common? Click here to find out! 19 September 2003 Dr. Christopher Herd is Assistant Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Alberta. Chris is an expert in meteorites, comparing rocks from space with their more earthly counterparts. Read about how he got interested in planetary geology at an early age, and how "imagination is the root of the creativity that underlies the very foundation of science." 12 September 2003 New Interviews: Homer (Sonny) Hickam grew up in a small coal mining town in West Virginia. In 1957, a small satellite inspired him to become part of the United States space program. The story about his childhood friends and their interest in rocketry became a major motion picture called October Sky. Dr. Vicky Hamilton is an Assistant Professor at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) at the University of Hawai'i. Learn why this psychology major changed paths in college and went on to a career she "wouldn't trade for anything" as a planetary geologist actively involved in Mars research. Calling all Kids!!! The Inland Empire Branch of the International Dyslexia Association is looking for contributors for the Kids' Newsletter for and about students who learn differently. Educator Events: We periodically update our Educator Events and Robotics Calendar with workshops, opportunities and other educational and robotics related info. Send your educator events and opportunities to: Imagiverse - Team 2 September 2003 Welcome to a new school year. We begin September with a look at what happened in the summer. The Imagiverse Team attended the Mars Exploration Rover Educator Workshop in Florida. Read about what they saw and learned at this fun-filled 2-day event. Take a look at some of the awesome classroom activities that we tried out. 25 August 2003 New Interviews: Dana Harper is an archaeologist. Her job has taken her all around the United States and to other countries as well. She became interested in the past as a young child in school and her family vacations through archaeological ruins allowed her to discover this fascinating field. Janet Cook is an educator who was inspired to live overseas after a mission to Peru she went on for her church. She is currently teaching high school in Germany and most recently taught English in Japan. Her two daughters provided a little input for her latest interview. Read what they like best about living in different countries and what they don't like. David Johnson is a senior creative director and a writer for a major advertising agency in New York City. He has done ads for companies like Pepsi and Gillette, with sports stars like Shaquille O'Neal and Warren Sapp. Steven Dworetzky teaches middle school robotics in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He developed the Mars Exploration Rover Robotics Education Project and uses many fun techniques to spark the imagination of his multicultural, multilingual classroom. 17 August 2003 Mars is a HOT item. Why? Because Mars is about to be the closest to Earth in recorded history! Because there are four spacecraft about to reach the planet in a few months! Because there might be running water on Mars RIGHT NOW! Please visit our new Mars Exploration (www.imagiverse.org/mars) section and check out some exciting new content! Learn about how you can find Mars in the night sky and get "Mars Fever". Dr. Phil Christensen is a geologist and Mars scientist. Read how the young grad student, who sat in the back of the room watching Mars scientists vote on Viking landing sites in 1976, became the Principal Investigator for two instruments currently in orbit around Mars and two more headed for landing in January 2004. 11 August 2003 What is it like to live in the Canary Islands? Learn about chemist Raúl Quesada who has lived there all his life. 8 August 2003 Happy Birthday Imagiverse! Today, Imagiverse celebrates its 2nd anniversary. Without the support of our friends, the site couldn't have been as successful as it is today. We thank you. New content: Even as four spacecraft are headed to Mars right now, researchers aren't wasting a minute's time, preparing for what they might send to Mars next. Read about it in our article, "Bright Mars, Bright Future". 4 August 2003 Read our two new articles about the launch of the second Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity: "Opportunity Rocks", a launch perspective from the NASA exhibit at Disneyland. "Delta II Countdown: The Launch of MER-B 'Opportunity'", a detailed look at a rocket launch sequence. 21 July 2003 NEW HOMEPAGE The Imagiverse homepage has been redone to suit our current needs. LETTERS AROUND THE WORLD We have many new submissions of letters by the alumni of the American School of Madrid. They have lived all over the globe and have many interesting stories to tell. INTERVIEWS Gregory H. Johnson - NASA Astronaut Leigh, Lisa & Laura Schnaidt - Dentists FIRST-CLASS NEWS You can view the newsletter the students at the Montessori School of Corona of what they learn at school. Newsletters will be periodically updated and can be found on the What's New page. NEW Q&A Check out some of the new archived questions. 19 June 2003 A few weeks ago, the first Mars Exploration Rover, "Spirit", launched towards Mars. Here, we bring you some pictures from the Disneyland Space Experience Exhibit during the launch of Spirit. Peter is a philosophy student at York University in the United Kingdom. He plans to enter the field of filmmaking but hasn't limited himself to anything in particular yet. Peter also suffers from a learning disability that he didn't realize he had until high school. Find out what strategies have helped him to be a successful student. Paul Woodmansee is a "rocket scientist" or more accurately, a propulsion engineer. Imagine working on something that will carry a spacecraft to someplace like Mars! Find out what subjects gave Paul trouble when he was a student and what strategies helped him through. Luis Flores is a Theatre Arts student aspiring to put his creative talents to use in a field that has inspired him since childhood. Read how he has already made some of his childhood dreams become a reality. 30 May 2003 Read about the exciting Mars Express mission, Europe's First Trek to Mars. The students at Montessori School of Corona and Montessori Children's House had a blast working on the Mars Rover Project. See how you can implement a robotics unit in your course for the elementary and preschool levels. 29 April 2003 Three New Interviews: Dean Davis is a rocket scientist. Do you have the "right stuff" to become a rocket scientist too? You might! Find out what things you can do now to prepare yourself for an exciting and challenging career like Dean's. Peter Abrahamson designs robotics and robotic special effects for the television and film industry. Read how watching movies as a kid and competing at BattleBots paved the way for a really cool career! Dr. Jane Nelsen is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor, an author, a speaker, and a workshop leader. Find out how her experiences a mother of seven children opened up an unexpected career path which has taken her all around the country and to guest appearances on television. Read a letter from Liggia about Lenscrafters' Gift of Sight program in El Salvador. 22 March 2003 New interviews: Dr. Jane Luu is an astronomer who, with her colleague Dave Jewitt, discovered the Kuiper Belt which lies beyond Neptune. She is also a world traveler with an adventurous spirit. Bob Raab is a retired airline pilot and former Marine F-4 Phantom Fighter Pilot. Read about his exciting life in two adrenaline-pumped interviews and be prepared for a surprising twist or two. 7 March 2003 Learn about how to get started in backyard astronomy in Dave McCarter's interview! 20 February 2003 Here's a touching true story showing that dreams really do come true. 17 February 2003 New Interviews: John Cabrera has traveled all over the world thanks to his career in banking and also lived abroad as a child because of his father's career in the film industry. Read about his exciting life and how he learned to live with a condition known as alopecia. Joe Condrill went to school in Germany, France, Hawaii, Thailand and Iran. He used his experience as a "global nomad" to create an organization called OVERSEAS BRATS. 1 February 2003 We express our great sorrow at the loss of the Space Shuttle crew of STS-107 on 1 February 2003. Our hearts go to their families, their friends, the people who make the space program possible, and the whole space community. Here is our tribute to them. 19 January 2003 Read about Deidre LaClair, a geology student who is currently doing planetary research. 14 January 2003 Two articles about the Starshine 3 project have been added. You can either read the elementary school or high school/adult version. 7 January 2003 A new Robotics section has been added to Activites. Be sure to check out the descriptions and photos of the Mars Exploration Rover Robotics Workshop held this summer. To keep updated on happenings at the Imagiverse website, subscribe to our Updates list by sending a blank email to: |
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