American Dynasty

Coding Starts our Saturdays at Farpoint It's ALL Go every Saturday  at the Farpoint Space Education Center located on Utah's beautiful Silicon Slopes in Lehi.    From 8:00 A.M. to 9:30 A.M. most Saturday mornings Farpoint offers the 2017-2018 Level 1 Programming Guild: Coding for Young Astronauts and Voyagers.  This is where the magic of starship and experiential simulations begins. Saturday our first crop of youngling programmers hit the keyboards to learn the basics.  We use GoogleCS as our curriculum.  We're learning to code with SCRATCH.  This eight-week course will be the first of three offered to our cadets this school year.  From this Level 1 class, our cadets will have the option of advancing to the Level 2 program - the WebDev Guild sponsored by Alex and Crystal Anderson, Matt Ricks, and Isaac Ostler.  The WebDev Guild meets every other Saturday from 9:30 - 11:00 A.M.  Want a peek at the cadets in act...

Hello, Troops, Another Post from the past.  This comes from October 2008.  Did you ever wonder what it was like to work an entire Friday and Saturday at the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center during the Voyager Era - the time of double field trips, weekend overnight camps (yes, nearly every weekend year-round), five simulators busy morning noon and night?  Today's Post from the Past opens the door to that time long ago.  They were good times, hard, challenging, tiring, but good..... Mr. Williamson   My seat for 23 years in the USS Voyager's Control Room October 2008 Hello Troops, When I left the Space Center on Saturday evening I said, "Enjoy your Only!" to Emily and Stacy. They wondered what I meant. I explained that most of us that work at the Center get one day off a week. We call our weekends our ' Onlys ". I want to use this post to give Three Cheers and a hip hip hooray to all of us that toil six days a week! We work ...