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  The 6th Grade Tiger Squadron's Official Launch Photo The 6th Grade Tiger Squadron's "Let have some fun" photo        It has been a busy week at Renaissance Academy's The Space Place.  Every afternoon The Space Place staff and volunteers greet a new Young Astronaut or Voyager Club squadron for their first meeting of the school year.  There are over 200 students in the after school club this year. They are divided into squadrons of 7 to 10 members.  Each grade level has a Monday Cobra, Tuesday Dragon, Wednesday Lion, Thursday Scorpion, and Friday Tiger squadron.       Take a moment to meet the squadrons that launched last week.  Some did better at others at getting the Starship Voyager launched from Outpost 14.  One team accidentally fired a missile at the Outpost causing serious damage to both Outpost 14 and their team score for the day.  Ouch!         The 5th Grade Scorpion Sq...

       Monday was the launch of the 2022-2023 Voyager and Young Astronaut Clubs at The Space Place located at Renaissance Academy, a public charter school in Lehi, Utah. Today's post introduces you to the squadrons who met this week. The 6th Grade Cobra Squadron.  2022-2023      Over 200 Renaissance Academy third through ninth grade students joined the after school program.  That is 25% of the school's 800 students.  The club's enrollment fee of $125.00 covers 8 months of meetings, missions in the Voyager Starship Simulator, and a club t-shirt.  Club members are referred to as cadets.  Cadets in grades 3 to 5 are in the Young Astronauts.  Cadets in grades 6 - 9 are in the Voyagers.  The Middle School Dragon Squadron      The cadets are placed in squadrons of 7 - 10 students.  The squadrons meets once a month on average. This year's curriculum includes astronomy, space history, current events in spa...

  Hi Victor,  I thought you might like to see these photos of the process of getting the Galileo together. Turns out when we put it together we thought all the pieces loaded from the back not from the front! So some of the pictures are us trying to put it together from the back, all of which we had to undo and redo properly from the front. It was quite a bit of tetrising to figure out how to get all of the pieces to the far side of the room so they could load front to back on the frame. But all is together now! Admiral Alex Debirk American Heritage School Shipyards American Heritage High Schoolers Giving the Ship a Good Polish Facing the back of the room.  They got the ship turned so the nose of the ship is facing the back wall. You enter the Galileo from the back so the back of the ship had to be at the front of the classroom near the hallway door.   Getting it turned around And there it, Nearly Assembled       The Galileo will fly again once the elec...

  Natalie and Connor      As you read in an earlier Troubadour post, the Christa McAuliffe Space Center bade farewell to Natalie Anderson and Connor Larsen at the end of the summer camp season.  Natalie was the Odyssey's Set Director, Conner was the Magellan's.  Both have retired to pursue life planetside.  Natalie will continue to work as a published author (prepare yourself JK Rowling for the new generation).  Connor will continue his organ studies with the final goal of living in a crumbling castle fortress in the depths of the Black Forest where he can play the organ with such music as to frighten even the ghosts away.  Word has it he is even practicing his sinister laugh.      With their departure, Mr. James Porter was tasked with appointing replacements.  A extensive search was undertaken from one corner of the Space Center to the other as he looked for the perfect candidates; and after serious consideratio...