American Dynasty

              Emily W in the Odyssey's Inner Sanctum Holding the Wand of Power       Once Emily was a happy Space Center volunteer, earning her simulator passes, and dreaming of the day when she too could sit in a Flight Director's chair and hold in her hands the simulated lives of hundreds of Odyssey crew.        Today Emily's dream became reality.  Emily is the Christa McAuliffe Space Center's newest Flight Director. The Supreme Commander of All Space Forces, James Porter, offered the promotion after observing her fly one of the Space Center's Day Camps last week.  When asked to comment on her promotion, James Porter replied,"The color of her shirt speaks for itself. She wouldn't be wearing the Navy Blues if it wasn't deserved. And she deserves it."        Standing beside the Supreme Commander was Mitch Foote, the Odyssey's Set Director. When asked for his thoughts Mitch ...

Let's take a trip in The Troubadour's Way Back Machine. We're traveling back in time 15 years to this week in July 2008. I'd like you to see the camper survey scores from our last EdVenture Camp of the 2008 Summer Season.  Back then we took 66 campers on EdVenture Camps. An EdVenture Camp lasted 3 days and 2 nights. The campers arrived at 7:00 P.M. on day 1 (Usually a Monday) with their sleeping bags, pillows, a change of clothes, toiletries, and a swimming suit and towel. The campers went home at 5:00 P.M. on day 3.  I divided the campers into 3 teams at the start of the camp.  The teams rotated to 3 different stations during the 3 days. Station 1 was the classroom session.  Station 2 was the Voyager, Galileo, and Phoenix.  Station 3 was the Magellan and the Odyssey.  After supper on day 2 we walked to the Pleasant Grove swimming pool.  I reserved the pool just for our campers, staff, and volunteers from 8:00 - 9:00 P.M. The campers could swim, then s...

  Elder Skyler Carr, Mission President of the InfiniD Worldwide Mission, showing off the newest missionary fashions.  "To sell the gospel of immersive experiential education you must look the part," Elder Carr said and the unveiling ceremony InfiniD Learning is on a mission to revolutionize education through immersive, experiential learning. The dedicated "education missionaries" are lead by Elder Skyler Carr (Mission President) and Elder Brooks Heder (Assistant to the President). Their team is spending a big part of their summer traveling across the country, visiting conferences and schools showing educators and administrators how InfiniD can transform classrooms into spaceships, inner body ships, and other immersive environments. Elder Brooks Heder and Elder Skyler Carr in Washington D.C. for the National Elementary Principals Conference. It was their sixth conference this summer. These missionaries are armed with the good news as manifested in InfiniD...

                    The bridge of the Starship Artemis at The Lion's Gate Space Center On June 30th I drove to the other side of Utah Lake to visit our sister space center at Lakeview Academy in Saratoga Springs.  The Lions Gate Space Center at Lakeview is the second oldest Space EdVenture Center in Utah Valley. It opened about 5 years ago, right before The Space Place at Renaissance Academy opened.  It was the brain child of the school's director, Richard Veasey and InfiniD's management team of Casey Voeks and Skylar Carr.  The Troubadour blog covered the construction of the Lion's Gate Center. You can read those posts by doing a search using the search engine located in the blog's right sidebar.  Type "Lakeview" in the field.  From the open room you enter the Artemis (Left) and the Apollo (right). The Control Rooms'entrance is in the middle door. Daniel Kirkpatrick is the director of the Lion's Gate Center....