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Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: Texas | Country: United States of America
| Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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The Houston America’s Promise Pilot
Program involved classrooms, after-school and summer school
students, teachers and multiple community organizations including
civic, religious, business and youth-based community groups
with substantial funding provided through the Mayor of Houston’s
office. Student work was displayed at the Houston Children’s
Museum. For more information, please contact: Laura Wade at
lauraw@pdq.net
Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: Texas | Country: United States of America
| Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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Kennedy Centers' Imagination Celebration
in Fort Worth and the entire community are embracing the Mars
Millennium Project as their overarching theme for their yearlong
millennium celebration. They have already conducted a one-day
professional development seminar for more than 350 area teachers.
They have events scheduled for nearly every month between now
and May 2000. Two examples of events include the Oct. 20th premiere
of the Windows on Mars educational video followed by a district-wide
rocket launch on Oct. 21st during which time school students
all over Ft. Worth launched their individual rockets. Another
special contribution to the project is from a Texas Christian
University student who is writing a symphony that will be premiered
in May 2000. For more information, please contact: Ginger Head
at 817.870.1141
Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: Colorado | Country: United States of
America | Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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Kennedy Centers' Imagination Celebration
in Colorado Springs is connecting the Mars Millennium Project
and the idea of exploration through the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
In 2000, this community will have a professional whistler come
in and teach kids how to whistle as a means of creating music
in environments where traditional instruments might not be suitable
or practical; use live performances of Orson Wells' "War of
the Worlds" to enable children to examine communication and
its development since the beginning of radio; and incorporate
many other forms of art that connect with science and history.
For more information please contact: Mary Mashburn at imagine@startext.net
Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: New York | Country: United States of
America | Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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As part of its Mars Millennium Project
Professional development program, Long Island University hosted
800 2nd through 12th grade students on October 15, 1999, to
launch a major collaboration with teachers and students throughout
the year. Two of the many teachers that will incorporate the
project into their curriculum were at the event to explain what
they have planned for the year. One is a 7th grade English teacher
in Lynbrook. The other, a middle school teacher in Hampton Day
School. Lynbrook and Hampton Day School are about 80 miles apart.
They are geographically in different worlds - one heavily suburban,
the other almost rural. Both classes will be reading futuristic
literature and doing creative writing about the future - on
Mars... in 2030. At the Oct. 15th event, the classes met at
the opening session, attended a special presentation by Alexander
Rose on Technology, Education, and the Future, and then participated
in a Mars Millennium Project computer lab with a local partner
from Cablevision. For more information, please contact: (to
come)
Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: | Country: United States of America
| Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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Washington, DC and Nationwide
The Mars Millennium Project has teamed up in partnership with
Embrace Space. This past May, thousands of students, educators,
space professionals, and others celebrated the accomplishments
and future of space during the third annual Space Day. Senator
John Glenn presided over the festivities that were held outside
the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum and featured a
live, interactive Cyber Space Day Web cast including a presentation
by Donna Shirley about the Mars Millennium Project. During Space
Day 2000, completed Mars Millennium Project will be exhibited
and tie the project to the day's activities. The Mars Millennium
Project will also partner with the National Association of Counties
to hold regional project events on Space Day. For more information,
please visit their Web site at www.spaceday.com
Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: | Country: United States of America
| Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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Artrain USA has taken to the rails
with the Artistry of Space Exhibition featuring artworks from
NASA and the National Air and Space Museum art collections that
captures the excitement and energy of space exploration. This
exhibit features 78 paintings, prints and other works from the
NASA Art collection that show the relationship of art to science
and technology. Artrain will provide exhibit space for completed
Mars Millennium Projects in the spring of 2000. If you are working
on the Mars Millennium Project, Artrain is an opportunity to
enhance your project as it provides an introduction to the excitement
of the initial effort to put a man on the moon to recent endeavors
such as the Pathfinder Mars Mission and the Hubble Space Telescope,
artists such as Peter Max, Robert Rauschenberg, Norman Rockwell,
Andy Warhol and James Wyeth have captured the excitement of
space exploration. Artrain may be in your town soon:
Washington, DC July 20 1999 to July 25 1999
Taneytown, MD Aug. 5 1999 to Aug. 8 1999
Bethlehem, PA Aug. 14 1999 to Aug. 22 1999
Munhall/Homestead, PA Sept. 2 1999 to Sept. 6 1999
Chambersburg, PA Sept. 9 1999 to Sept. 12 1999
Atlantic City, NJ Sept. 16 1999 to Sept. 19 1999
Seymour, CT Sept. 30 1999 to Oct. 3 1999
Lawrence, MA Oct. 21 1999 to Oct. 24 1999
St. Albans, VT Nov. 4 1999 to Nov. 7 1999
Hornell, NY Nov. 11 1999 to Nov. 14 1999
Ann Arbor, MI Dec. 1 1999 to Dec. 5 1999
Kennedy Space Center, FL Jan. 20 2000 to Jan. 23 2000
Punta Gorda, FL an. 29 2000 to Feb. 1 2000
St. Petersburg, FL Feb. 5 2000 to Feb. 8 2000
Palatka, FL Feb. 12 2000 to Feb. 16 2000
Pelham, GA Feb. 23 2000 to Feb. 27 2000
Opelika, AL March 3 2000 to March 7 2000
Spartanburg, SC March 10 2000 to March 13 2000
Conway, SC March 18 2000 to March 23 2000
Albemarle, NC March 30 2000 to April 2 2000
Ayden, NC April 13 2000 to April 16 2000
Elkin, NC April 27 2000 to April 30 2000
Danville, VA May 4 2000 to May 7 2000
Norfolk, VA May 11 2000 to May 14 2000
Pulaski, VA May 18 2000 to May 21 2000
Tullahoma, TN May 25 2000 to May 29 2000
Watertown, TN June 1 2000 to June 4 2000
Cookeville, TN June 8 2000 to June 11 2000
Nicholasville, KY June 22 2000 to June 25 2000
For more information, please call 734.747.8300 or 800.ART.1971.
Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: Illinois | Country: United States of
America | Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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The Adler Planetarium & Astronomy
Museum in Chicago is surging ahead with the project, drawing
in additional cultural institutions and community organizations
to work cooperatively on this national initiative. Their broad
program was launched with a series of summer workshops that
introduced teachers to the Mars Millennium Project and provided
them with the classroom resources they need to implement the
project and additional Adler-developed curriculum. They will
also hold a Public Lecture Series featuring noted Mars experts
throughout the 1999-2000 and in October 1999, the Adler opened
the first virtual environment StarRider Theater which takes
visitors on a voyage to Mars where they will interactively develop
a viable community. For information, please visit their Web
site at www.adlerplanetarium.org
Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: California | Country: United States
of America | Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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This year, Boeing Summer Science Camp
participants accepted the challenge to conceive a new community
on Mars. By using The Mars Millennium Project, these young people
were encouraged to reach beyond the practical problems of living
in space and look inside themselves for a future vision that
included the human spirit in their scientific designs. To manage
the task of developing a Mars community in 2030 and encompass
the needs of the whole person, students went through a series
of personal assessments and group discussions. Based on the
outcomes of these activities, they self-selected into five active
teams, derived from an understanding of psychologist Abraham
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs: Imagine (Survival), Operate
(Security), and Communicate (Sense of Belonging), and worked
on creating communities yet to be imagined. At the California
ScienCenter event, Boeing's involvement was highlighted and
the Boeing Summer Science Scholars presented their creations
to Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley by means of a guided
tour of their Mars community. Along the way, individual members
of the group were positioned to give presentations and answer
the Secretary's questions. The Boeing Company also provided
a Mars Millennium Project backdrop for the stage that was used
at the event.
For more information, please contact :
Marie Mungary at Marie.Mungaray@West.Boeing.com
Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: Florida | Country: United States of
America | Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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This past summer, the Kennedy Space
Center held a Space Scholars Summer Camp with the theme "Honor
the Past - Imagine the Future" in support of the Mars Millennium
Project. The program was a big success, with almost 300 campers
aged 8 - 14 years attending the week-long programs over the
course of the summer. Campers worked all week on planning and
building a component of a Mars Habitat in the future. Some campers
chose to build robotic Mars explorers, whereas other campers
chose to work together to construct their own Martian habitats.
This culminating summer project was part of the Kennedy Space
Center's ongoing support of the Mars Millennium Project.
For more information, please contact: Billy Specht at bspecht@dncinc.com
Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: | Country: United States of America
| Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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The Lucent Technologies Foundation
incorporated the Mars Millennium Project into their first Global
Science Scholars Summit. The Lucent program is a talent recognition
competition focused on supporting high-performing students around
the world who are interested in careers in information technology.
This year’s summit, Network Universe: Information, Technology,
and Community, focused on the important role communications
play in our everyday lives. During the conference at Lucent
Technologies' headquarters on July 23 - 30, 1999, scholar councils
had the unique opportunity to work with scientists, researchers
and their peers to explore, experience and set forth on a special
mission to develop recommendations for an interplanetary telecommunications
network between Earth and Mars in the year 2030. The Scholar
councils’ projects will set a standard for hundreds of thousands
of Mars Millennium participants and will be showcased on the
Mars Millennium Project Web site (www.mars2030.net) this fall.
In addition to the council projects, Donna Shirley spoke about
the project and Secretary Riley had an informative question
and answer session with the scholars about the Mars Millennium
Project and how to make science and math more interesting to
students. For more information on the Lucent Scholars program,
please visit the Web site at: http://www.lucent.com/news/about/community/scholarship/
Organization/School Name:
Administration | State: | Country: United States of America
| Date: 12-13-1999 | Contact
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Binney & Smith is extending the Mars
Millennium Project beyond the classroom through a futuristic
Mars Millennium-themed module contained within a 2,000 square-foot
Crayola museum exhibit. This exhibit will travel to children’s
and science museums nationwide beginning January 2000 in Baltimore.
The exhibit takes teachers, students and parents on a hands-on
journey through the fundamentals of the creative process to
deepen their understanding of the relevance of the arts and
creativity to life. This journey culminates with a visit to
the “Red Planet” where skills acquired along the way are applied
to creating such things as architecture, transportation systems,
parks and ecosystems on Mars in the year 2030 – all closely
linked to the Mars Millennium Project.
For more information, please contact: (to come)
Organization/School Name:
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art | State: Pennsylvania | Country:
Other | Date: 01-21-2000 | Contact
Info
The Southern Alleghenies Museum of
Art is offering Mars Millennium Project in-service courses designed
to integrate the visual and performing arts with technology
in multiple discipline areas, while providing a graduate-level
credit through Appalachia Intermediate Unit #8. In partnership
with the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center at the University
of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Saint Francis College, and the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts, the Museum will utilize Mars Millennium
Project curricula to guide participants in the design of a thematic
unit that can be utilized in a secondary classroom environment.
Organizations, such as the Martha Graham Dance Company and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will provide
performance and distance learning exposure experiences to demonstrate
the effective applications of performing arts and technology
integration. In addition, participants will learn how to assess
and incorporate web and teleconference-based programs into their
lessons.
Organization/School Name:
Stone Scholastic academy | State: Illinois | Country: United
States of America | Date: 01-22-2000 | Contact
Info
We have a future city competition
going on. The winners will go to the next level which will be
in washington D.C. An essay about the colonization on Mars must
be included.
Organization/School Name:
Port Discovery | State: Maryland | Country: United States of
America | Date: 01-24-2000 | Contact
Info
Join us:
January 14th-April 2nd 2000
for three months of exhibits, activities and programs in conjunction
with the Mars Millennium Project.
Organization/School Name:
Pownal Middle School | State: Maine | Country: United States
of America | Date: 01-25-2000 | Contact
Info
We are participating with several
teams which will put everything they are working on together
at the end to make a complete community. Example: 1 team is
exploring atmosphere, another is doing housing etc.
Organization/School Name:
Heritage Theatre Artists' Consortium | State: Maryland | Country:
United States of America | Date: 01-25-2000 | Contact
Info
Heritage Theatre Artists'
Consortium is conducting a
total theatre arts program
for children (7-9) and their
parents/guardians on
consecutive Sundays, March 5
- April 2, 2000 at Port
Discovery, the children's
museum in Baltimore, MD.
This creative arts program is
an added special program
(Baltimore only) during the
touring Crayola Factory's
"Journey to the Red Planet"
exhibit featured at Port
Discovery (January 14- April
2, 2000). This theatre arts
program is specifically
designed for children (ages
7-9) and adults to
collaborate by creating their
own original theatre
production using the theme of
Mars and space travel. The
participants have access to
use the resources of the
Enoch Pratt Free Library's
Exploration Center (located
within the children's
museum), and accessing Port
Discovery's creative
resources including their MPT
television studio.
Participants are also
encouraged to explore between
sessions their local branch
libraries for books and world
wide web navigation on
available library and/or home
computuers. The participants
are also to look for "found
objects",in their own
neighborhoods and homes to
use in their original
production. The participants
will be keeping a journal
where they will keep their
play ideas, poems and art
sketches in it as well. A
live public performance of
the participant's original
production will be presented
on April 2, 2000 at the Port
Discovery's MPT studio. The
Baltimore Sun's Reading by 9
Program is publishing the
group's original play through
their support. A bound copy
of the play will be added to
the Enoch Pratt Free
Library's Exploration
Center's permanent
collection.
The theatre arts program
designer/ facilitator is
Harriet Lynn, B.F.A, M.S.
She is Executive
Producer/Artistic Director of
Heritage Theatre Artists'
Consortium, a professional
theatre arts/educational
organization founded in 1994
to consult, produce theatre
programs for museums,
historical societies, science
centers, educational
institutions, theatres and
special events. Ms. Lynn is a
member of the International
Museum Theatre Alliance,
Actors Equity Association,
SAG and AFTRA, and has over
20 years experience working
within arts education.
The total theatre arts
child/parent project is being
funded by the Enoch Pratt
Free Library and the
Baltimore Sun's Reading by 9
Program in collaboration with
Port Discovery. Inquiries or
further
Organization/School Name:
O. T. Bright Elementary | State: Illinois | Country: United
States of America | Date: 01-27-2000 | Contact
Info
Bright Future
Sixth and seventh grade students have developed two different
Martian All-Terrain Vehicles for locomotion on the rocky Martain
surface.
Organization/School Name:
LSU Laboratory School | State: Louisiana | Country: United States
of America | Date: 02-01-2000 | Contact
Info
Sixth-graders at University Laboratory
School have just complete the third phase of their Mars Millennium
Project by going on a field trip to the local Planning and Zoning
Commission. They were able to interact with city planners who
provided valuable feedback and insights into the viability of
the project, and then they went on to city court where they
listed to the city's chief attorney and a district judge discuss
planning and zoning laws and why they are necessary. The fourth
phase of this project will include a presentation to the City
Council for approval before submitting the plans to MMP.
Organization/School Name:
Mrs. Scherer's class Jefferson Middle School | State: Illinois
| Country: Other | Date: 02-01-2000 | Contact
Info
Three science classes have been involved
in a problem-based learning unit to design a community on Mars.
The 90 students presented their 15 communities to a panel of
judges consisting of the mayor, an engineer, a representative
from the park district, a newspaper representative, a the local
planetarium director.
Organization/School Name:
Gildersleeve Middle School | State: Virginia | Country: United
States of America | Date: 02-09-2000 | Contact
Info
Ares City is the title of our project.
We are having a lot of fun designing our project and learning
about Mars. It has been a very educational experience. We know
more about Mars than we did before.Our project will be on the
internet soon. Watch for it!!!
Organization/School Name:
Electronics Technology/Duncanville High School | State: Texas
| Country: United States of America | Date: 02-14-2000 | Contact
Info
Mars Colonization Project
The development of space is truly man’s final frontier. In recent
years NASA has committed itself to three major long-term space
exploration goals. The final development and manning of the
International Space Station, landing astronauts on Mars by 2018,
and the colonization of Mars by 2030.
To support these initiatives NASA, working in conjunction with
the Department of Education, National Endowment of the Arts,
and other organizations, has created the Mars Millennium Project.
This project is designed to start developing the people who
will develop, crew, and lead these missions. To start them focusing
on what will be needed to make this happen starting now. For
the simple reason that the men and women that will develop all
of this, are presently in our secondary schools.
Your team’s goal is to develop, as realistically as possible,
a plan for the colonization of Mars by the year 2030, starting
with a planned community of 100 people. You are given a budget
of 5 billion dollars. Your plan must include the following minimum
information. Items 8 – 15 are required for your entry into the
Mars Millennium Project:
1. Background information on the Martian environment.
2. Immediate objectives of the community and its budget.
3. Long range goals of the community.
4. Number of buildings with their characteristics, and capabilities.
5. Type of vehicle used for the missions to Mars. This is to
include its operational abilities.
6. Job description of the members of the community.
7. Emergency procedures.
8. How will you make the community livable?
9. How did you make the community an inviting place to live
and work?
10. How did you organize and maintain your community?
11. What will it mean to be a citizen of your community?
12. What major artistic inspirations did you have?
13. What major scientific and technical factors did you take
into account?
14. What did you learn about the community around you?
15. What do you want your community of the future to be like?
Your team will be given five grades for this project. You will
receive one daily grade for the team’s ability to manage your
resources, including time.
Two daily grades will be given for you’re written report. One
grade will be for sentence structure, spelling, mechanics etc.
The other grade will be for content, realism, etc. This report
must include at a minimum, information on items 1 – 15 above,
charts, illustrations, and a bibliography.
Two test grades will also be given for your class presentation.
One grade will be for quality of the audio/visual aides and
handouts used. The other grade will be for content, realism,
etc. The presentation must include all the people in your team.
At a minimum the presentation must include information on items
1- 15 above, a power point presentation, and handouts.
Organization/School Name:
Oregon Public Education Network | State: Oregon | Country: Other
| Date: 02-15-2000 | Contact
Info
OPEN, in partnership with local Oregon
chapters of two national space advocacy groups, the Mars Society
and the National Space Society, is creating a specialized Web
resource built around the Mars Millennium Project. Our proposal
is for the design of a viable Martian community constructed
within one of the countless Martian lava tube caves found on
the red planet, a concept pioneered by several Oregon-based
space advocacy groups, and recognized by NASA itself for its
potential.
A major tool for this site will be the "Scottish
Storyline Method," a learning technique developed
in Scotland, and modified for use in the United States by
the late Kathy Fifield, a Portland teacher, who was introduced
to the system while visiting the United Kingdom.
With this technique applied to a Martian colony, the kids
get to be visiting journalists describing the colony to folks
back home. The journey requires students to investigate why
people migrate, what supplies are needed, how to develop a
viable, self-sustaining colony, what are the possible hardships
and challenges. Carefully planned episodes engage students
in actual practice and application of basic skills within
the context of the storyline. The story motivates students
to extend those skills and refine them for "real life" challenges.
Another unique aspect of this method is that it instills the
value of the very human tradition of story telling. Kids become
active participants in the lessons as they work their way
through the storylines. And as a bonus, they also get to learn
a great deal about a wide range of various down-to-earth topics.
The final project will be a Web-based comprehensive community
plan backed up by a host of ready-to-use in-class tasks &
lessons covering a broad range of levels and subject areas.
Organization/School Name:
Utica Symphony Orchestra | State: New York | Country: United
States of America | Date: 02-15-2000 | Contact
Info
The Utica Symphony Orchestra will
present Holst's "The Planets" at its final Classic Series Concert
of the 1999-2000 Season, April 29, 2000. This wonderful piece
of music celebrates the planets as interpreted by the composer.
It is performed by Symphony Orchestra and women's chorus. We
have a program that can provide complementary tickets to students
(and their families) in schools participating in the Mars Millennium
Project. Our music director also is available to visit schools
in upstate New York.
Organization/School Name:
NASA Glenn Research Center (Coordinated by the Office of Educational
Programs) | State: Ohio | Country: Other | Date: 02-16-2000
| Contact
Info
The NASA Glenn Research Center offers
its help and resources to MMP participants in the six-state
region it services (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI). This will involve
emailing questions to scientists, video teleconferences, workshop
on mars, and collaboration with the formal and informal education
organizations involved in MMP. Our GRC MMP web site address
is http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OEP/MMP/about.html
Organization/School Name:
Gifted and Talented Program/Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional
School District | State: New Jersey | Country: United States
of America | Date: 02-25-2000 | Contact
Info
Carleton and Middle school gifted
students are participating in the Salem County,NJ Science Fair
2000. They have been invited to display their MARS2030 projects
which was part of the GT program this year. The students have
made models of a future Mars settlement. Hopefully, they will
also have an opportunity to show their PowerPoint Slideshows
as part of their multimedia exhibit.
Organization/School Name:
Harbor School for the Arts and Sciences | State: South Carolina
| Country: Other | Date: 02-27-2000 | Contact
Info
The two month endeavor of working
with the students at school was the rewarding and fun part of
constructing Mars Harbor 2030. The most difficulty that I experienced
was building our community on the web. Constructing this page
has taken many long hours, these hours were not taken into consideration.
This project has been one of the most difficult, but the most
rewarding accomplishments in my career.
Organization/School Name:
Big Tree School - S.A.I.L. program | State: New York | Country:
United States of America | Date: 03-01-2000 | Contact
Info
We are building a biosphere
for 100 colonists living on
Mars. We are also designing
and building a model of a
transportation system that
would transport water from
the Mars ice cap to our
biosphere. This system could
also transport people and
Organization/School Name:
Parker Road Elementary | State: Missouri | Country: Other |
Date: 03-02-2000 | Contact
Info
One class of third graders and one
class of fifth graders from Parker Road ELementary School, designed
communities for the year 2030 on Mars. They constructed their
community from balsa wood, playdough, wire,cellophane,and cardboard.
Organization/School Name:
Capitol Hill Elementary School | State: Oregon | Country: United
States of America | Date: 03-05-2000 | Contact
Info
We requested information on this project
in June of 1999 and we began our project immediately upon the
return to school in Sept. 1999. We jumped off in October with
a school wide MMP colony design contest.
We had an all school assembly presented by Thomas Hanna of Space:
The Future Frontier educating us on Mars. Our Grade 1 & 2 teachers
and Principal went to Omsi's NASA Resource Center to gain additional
information to assist with our project and we set up a MMP site
on our school's webpage with a direct link to the mars2030 site.
We had an all school assembly in December to award the winners
and all participants with certificates and prizes. We had over
325 entries! (Our student enrollment is only 275)
The 1st and 2nd graders then began constructing their actual
Mars colony which included a total of 9 modules: 4 below ground,
4 above ground and a central command module that sat above but
could be lowered in case of a meteor shower or other emergency
event. The purpose for having both above and below ground modules
were to protect our inhabitants in emergency situations. Both
areas have backup resources for air, water, energy, and food.
We received volunteer assistance from Oregon L-5 and S:TFF during
this phase. We also received media coverage by Gus Frederickson
in the O.P.E.N. paper (Oregon Public Education Network).
We then culminated our efforts and displayed our artwork and
actual colony modules at the March 1, 2000 Science Fair to coincide
with the movie release of "Mission to Mars" as well as the release
of the MMP project video. We had NASA educator, Brian Hawkins
come in with NASA exhibits and he gave a presentation "Living
and Working in Space". (We tried for local media coverage but
they let us down and no showed at the final event.) We are in
the process of uploading our information to the Virtual Gallery
now.
Our final mission this year is a Rocket Day either in April
or May to give the kids an idea of what it takes to get there.
We are now planning to extend this program into the 2000-2001
curriculum.
Organization/School Name:
St. John Vianney School | State: New Jersey | Country: United
States of America | Date: 03-05-2000 | Contact
Info
The 5th grade students of St. John
Vianney are diligently getting their community together. After
a discussion of what makes a community on Earth, the students
interviewed people from classmates to grandparents on what they
would expect to have on Mars. They then compared their lists
and reduced it to include the most important items. Next the
students using drawing to depict how they would want the community
on Mars to look. Many students included the types of necessities
here on Earth, but many included sentiments of providing a safe
and loving environment. They are presently gathering materials
to create a 3-D version of the community they hope to visit.
One student is even designing a nursing home so the teachers
can come live on Mars too!
Organization/School Name:
Public Museum of Grand Rapids | State: Michigan | Country: United
States of America | Date: 03-09-2000 | Contact
Info
The Public Museum of Grand Rapids,
along with the Regional Math & Science Center, the Kent Intermediate
School District and the Grand Rapids Public Schools, conducted
a multi county teacher inservice of public, private and charter
schools on the Mars Millennium Project. Workshop teachers have
taken their new skills and information back to their classrooms/schools
to crate some type of display and/or performance based exhibit
to be showcased at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids during
the largest all volunteer festivals in the United States (called
Festival of the Arts) on June 2-4, 2000. One class is doing
a Martian fashion show and another whole school (K-6) is spending
all semester "exploring" Mars.
The participating schools are:
· Academy of Health and Science
· Assumption BVM School
· Cedar Springs Middle School
· Central Montcalm Middle School
· Cutlerville Christian School
· Godfrey Elementary School
· Kelloggsville Middle School
· Pine Island Elementary, Comstock Park Public Schools
· Sherwood Park School, Grand Rapids Public Schools
· St. Stephen School
See each school's separate listing for specific information.
For general information contact: Gary Tomlinson at gtomlins@triton.net
Organization/School Name:
Emmorton Elemenatary School | State: Maryland | Country: United
States of America | Date: 03-10-2000 | Contact
Info
We are focusing on recylcing. As we
began to research and invite county officials in to speak to
our group, recyling seemed to come up over and over. So, eventually
our project goal focused on recyling of air, waste, and water.
We have visited landfills, met with community planners, and
a hydroponics farm. We do have a problem with "how much". The
children want to do it all and we can't encompass all.
Organization/School Name:
Campolindo High School | State: California | Country: United
States of America | Date: 03-10-2000 | Contact
Info
Hello. For our Earth Science class
we were assigned a project to figure out ideas that would help
NASA's focus on having Mars as the next great frontier. My group
has been assigned for the engineering and building of an atmospere
on Mars and then greening the planet. If anyone out there has
some suggestions for my group that would be very helpful.
Sincerely
Stephanie
Organization/School Name:
Tomball Public Library | State: Texas | Country: Other | Date:
03-16-2000 | Contact
Info
A small group of elementary school-aged
children are building a table-top display of a Mars Colony,
as part of their year-long Space Explorers Club monthly activities.
We hope to show the model and drawings at the Geo.R.Brown Convention
Center exhibition in May, but
so far we have not been able to contact the coordinator for
the Geo.R.Brown event.
Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated! Thanks,
Maria Culley
Organization/School Name:
Capitol Hill Elementary School | State: Oregon | Country: United
States of America | Date: 03-17-2000 | Contact
Info
275 students and their teachers made
the "Capitol Hill Colony Base" a reality. Their webpage is being
placed on the MMP VG-Site, until then it can be viewed on the
Space: The Future Frontier website; go to the "Newsletter" page.
www.teleport.com/~stff
Organization/School Name:
Nittany Valley Charter School | State: Pennsylvania | Country:
United States of America | Date: 03-17-2000 | Contact
Info
Six students in grades 1-5 have been
working together to design their Mars Community. Some students
are designing buildings on the computer using a 3-D builder,
others are building their places out of K'Nex. Some have drawn
their designs and scanned them into the computer. Our finished
product will be on-line in April!
Organization/School Name:
Goldwood Primary School (K-2) | State: Ohio | Country: United
States of America | Date: 03-22-2000 | Contact
Info
For our project children, parents,
and teachers are coming together to create our Mars community.
We have all learned how far a little motivation, cooperation
and teamwork can go! We hope to have our project completed by
mid-April.
Organization/School Name:
Central Montcalm Middle School | State: Michigan | Country:
United Kingdom | Date: 04-01-2000 | Contact
Info
The seventh grade students, The Jedi,
are creating a model of a voyage and life on Mars. They are
creating scrapbooks and journals starting on Earth, their trip
to Mars, and life in the Mars colony. The colony and transportation
is being designed and built. They have designed and are creating
a flag and mission patch. Determining which personnel should
be part of the colony and how the colonistists will be governed
is being determined. Finally, they are putting all this information
into a display for the show at the Grand Rapids.
Organization/School Name:
Hardisty Junior High | State: | Country: Canada | Date: 04-02-2000
| Contact
Info
Our grade 7 Social Studies classes
are participating in the NASA created MARSVILLE unit for the
third year in a row. We hope to incorporate some or all of the
Mars Millennium Project Online into our unit as well.
Organization/School Name:
Kelloggsville Middle School | State: Michigan | Country: United
States of America | Date: 04-06-2000 | Contact
Info
Our project has two parts.
First, our students will create a conceptualization of the community.
The community will be composed of a series of space shuttles
linked together to provide the living space for the citizens.
Secondly, our students have created the hydroponic system that
will be utilized in this community.
Organization/School Name:
Ed White Middle School | State: Alabama | Country: United States
of America | Date: 04-14-2000 | Contact
Info
We have developed our constitution
and are beginning construction on our city model.
We are condidering the visual and performing arts and will be
putting oon a show upon completion of the project.
Organization/School Name:
Emmorton Elementary | State: Maryland | Country: Other | Date:
04-19-2000 | Contact
Info
Our topic deals with recycling. We
have had local gov't. officials from lanning and zoning and
agriculture come in and speak with us. We have also visited
a landfill and will be going to the water treatment plant. We
have planned our whole community based on the idea of recycling
air, water, human waste, and even a way of combining recycling
and the growing of food through hydroponics. Our students have
made a computer presentation and are working on a video to present
to our local City Hall, to show them what we've learned form
our research, and how we would start our community on Mars,
and the visions we see for our future on Earth.
Organization/School Name:
Yujin Gakuen | State: Oregon | Country: United States of America
| Date: 04-19-2000 | Contact
Info
We are doing a project that will be
on display at the local planitarium. We will eather creat what
we might think would be a house on mars or we could creat a
paper on why we think there might be life on Mars, or on what
houses might look like and why. We could also creat what a song
might sond like.
Organization/School Name:
Batavia Middle School | State: Illinois | Country: United States
of America | Date: 04-23-2000 | Contact
Info
The orchestras at our school composed
a symphony for the Mars Millennium Project. The symphony is
called "Symphony No. 1: the Pillars of Mars". The first movement
consists of a countdown and blastoff towards Mars. This was
composed by teacher Rita Feuerborn. The second movement consists
of a reflection of life on Earth. This one was composed by the
seventh grade orchestra. The third movement is a faster one,
depicting a journey forward. This was composed by the eighth
grade orchestra. The fourth and last movement is about the landing
on Earth, and is rather exciting. This was also composed by
Ms. Feuerborn. We are scheduled to perform this symphony on
May 12 at the Adler Planetarium.
Organization/School Name:
Farmington High School | State: Connecticut | Country: United
States of America | Date: 04-24-2000 | Contact
Info
Our Computer Assisted Design program
will look at the 2030 colony as a whole. Some students will
look at architecture, interior design, industrial design, and
furniture design for the colonies needs.
Organization/School Name:
University City New School | State: Pennsylvania | Country:
United States of America | Date: 04-25-2000 | Contact
Info
The third and fourth graders at UCNS
are involved in the Mars 2030 project. We are currently building
teams to handle the different aspects of our project development.
The students will spend about 2 months altogether to create
their martian community.
Organization/School Name:
Michael Krop Senior High | State: Florida | Country: United
States of America | Date: 04-29-2000 | Contact
Info
Most of the schools are making stuff
for the envoirnment of Mars, but in our school, 2 students-
Aisha and Brian are making 4-5 rovers which move about in a
Mars like environment that is fairly 5 ft x 5 ft. It is VERY
cool! There are green houses, and MUCH, MUCH more! The rovers
and robots are made out of Legos--- using the Robotics Inevention
System, and the Exploration Mars kit.
Organization/School Name:
Assumption of BVM School | State: Michigan | Country: United
States of America | Date: 04-30-2000 | Contact
Info
The 5th Grade class has been
divided into 2 groups. Each
has designed and is presently
constructing a community on
M
Organization/School Name:
Spring Branch Middle School | State: Texas | Country: United
States of America | Date: 05-01-2000 | Contact
Info
My 7th grade art students are designing
buildings, cars, fashion, and creatures they might encounter.
Organization/School Name:
Telstar Regional High School | State: Maine | Country: United
States of America | Date: 05-04-2000 | Contact
Info
The 9th grade honors Earth Science
class at our school has been working on the MMP since September
1999. We plan to submit our community design by June 1, 2000.
We have explored Mars and the concept of community in depth
and have conducted research focusing on the questions posed
by the project.
Organization/School Name:
Memphis City Schools Orff Music Program | State: Tennessee |
Country: United States of America | Date: 05-06-2000 | Contact
Info
We have created a musical which is
based on the lives of colonists participating in the Mars Millennium
Project. The story line begins one year after the colonists
have established a habitat on Mars. The colonists share their
past year's experience with the new arrivals from Earth through
song and movement. Some highlights of the program are as follows.
An original speech piece named "Life on Mars" details the specific
occupations that are necessary to build and establish the Mars
community. "Hosanna, Me Build a House" is a traditional Jamaican
folk song which the colonists use to illustrate the difficulties
in constructing the biosphere. "Millennium March" also an original
Orff composition, embodies the pioneering spirit of this remarkable
venture. Another selection, "Somewhere in My Memory," reminds
the colonists that no matter where in the universe the future
leads it is important to remember that love and family will
always endure.
Our program involves over 300 Memphis City Schools students
from 45 elementary schools. This concert is an annual event
to showcase the talents of students who study music through
the Orff pedagogy. Each year a new theme is chosen by a committee
of Orff teachers. This year we were inspired by the Mars Millennium
Project.
Organization/School Name:
Cedar Springs Middle School | State: Michigan | Country: Uzbekistan
| Date: 05-08-2000 | Contact
Info
The group has been involved in this
project for the last six months and have been presenting to
many community groups on the development of this project. The
group will also be attending NASA Space Camp in Alabama. Our
project has several groups including a technology team, a model
building team, a notebook team, and a movie producing team.
A complex powerpoint presentation explaining our project has
been esembled to show at our many community showcases.
Organization/School Name:
CedarSprings Middle School | State: Michigan | Country: United
States of America | Date: 05-08-2000 | Contact
Info
People involved:
Students
Teachers
Parents
Community Members
Career Pathway Coordinator
What has happened so far:
The core group has been meeting faithfully once or twice a week
since November, 1999. On Wednesdays, we meet during lunch hour
to discuss and brainstorm ideas for this project and we also
share information we have gathered about the planet Mars. On
Thursdays from 4:30 to 6:00, we meet for more in depth discussions
and planning. We have had guest speakers attend our meetings
to help enlighten us to this all encompassing challenge we have
of starting a new community from scratch in space! We have heard
from environmentalists, medical professionals, historians, community
leaders, and water and waste experts.
What are we doing now:
The core team has divided into four smaller work groups consisting
of 4 to 8 students under the direction of teachers/parents.
Work group #1 (Dome Construction) is concentrating on building
the actual model or replica of the Mars community we have envisioned.
The students have been drawing floor plans and elevations of
the living environment they have imagined. They have taken a
field trip to the Cedar Springs High School CAD/CAM classroom
to see how their hand drawings that will be turned into three
dimensional blue prints. At this point, we are building a rough
model using Lego and K-nex type toys. Ultimately we will design,
with the assistance of a professional model builder, a 2X4 foot
replica of our housing environment on Mars.
Work group #2 (Book/Backdrop) is focusing on creating an information
booklet including Mars facts and profiles of the 100 people
who will be living on Mars. We have a three-ring binder notebook
that is growing in thickness each day! We have collected many
articles and facts about Mars and Biodomes which are keeping
organized in this reference book. The students had a contest
to design a front and back cover for this notebook, as well
as divider pages. It is a wonderful presentation of what we
have learned and discovered thus far.
A banner and backdrop and flag are also being worked on by the
students and parent volunteers. These items will be visual asset
to our many upcoming presentations.
Work group #3 (Technology) is working in the Computer Lab designing
our Web Page, communicating with students in other districts,
doing research on the internet, and preparing a PowerPoint presentation
about the project which we will show to various groups in the
Cedar Springs community this spring.
These students are also working on profile sheets which will
be type written interviews with each of the people involved
with the project, including our guest speakers. These sheets
will be added to our Mars notebook. A PowerPoint computer presentation
is also being made about this project.
Work group #4 (Movie) is responsible for making a movie/video
of our project in all its stages. We have a dedicated camera
man who is filming our meetings and discussions and we will
ultimately piece clips together and show this film on a VCR
at the Grand Rapids Art Festival along with our model, booklet,
web page, and PowerPoint presentation.
What are we going to do:
Continue to meet in our work groups
Continue to meet as a team
Continue to listen to guest speakers
Attend a Cedar Springs City Council meeting
Take a field trip to the Planetarium
Take a field trip to Veen Observatory in Lowell, Michigan
Interview community members in regards to their career
Present a PowerPoint presentation to the Cedar Springs Rotary
Club
Present a PowerPoint presentation to the Cedar Springs School
Board
Take a 4 day trip to NASA Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama
Present our project at the Arts Festival at the Van Andel Museum
in Grand Rapids, Michigan
N.A.S.A. Space Camp:
The Mars Millennium team will be attending a four day trip to
Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama in May 2000. This trip will
be paid for with specialty funds available from the school with
the expectation of airfare which is estimated to cost $218.00
a person. Food, lodging and admission fees to the camp will
be covered by the school. More detailed information will be
forthcoming regarding this trip.
If you have any questions, please direct them to Mr. Roger Relich
at (616) 696-9100 ext. 1636 or you can e-mail us at marsmillennium@yahoo.com.
Organization/School Name:
St. Stephen School | State: Michigan | Country: United States
of America | Date: 05-08-2000 | Contact
Info
Fifteen 7th and 8th grade students
are designing a living space and developing a plan for the daily
routine and schedule.
Organization/School Name:
CLARA BROWNELL MIDDLE SCHOOL | State: Oregon | Country: Other
| Date: 05-11-2000 | Contact
Info
Our classes has been doing this for
about a week now and have learned that mars 2030 has actually
hurt our world in many different ways our society has dramatically
changed this year and the years before
Organization/School Name:
Goldtrap-Gardner Boys & Girls Club | State: Arkansas | Country:
United States of America | Date: 05-11-2000 | Contact
Info
At the Club, we are learning about
conditions on Mars and how we could design a living space there.
Members have turned in ideas and rough drawings of how they
invision life on Mars.
Organization/School Name:
Project Learn School | State: Pennsylvania | Country: United
States of America | Date: 05-13-2000 | Contact
Info
Our Mars Team are having a
group photo taken showing
our 2' x 4' model of the
surface of Mars showing our
colony site. The photo will
appear in our local newspaper
on Thursday, May 25th.
Organization/School Name:
Prospect Park School | State: New Jersey | Country: United States
of America | Date: 05-18-2000 | Contact
Info
A group of nine eighth grade students
worked on the Mars Millenium Project. We built a park on Mars,
which we called Marstra Park, to replicate Hofstra Park in our
hometown. Because Prospect Park is a multicultural community,
we designed Marstra Park to have places for four games from
different nations. The games are basketball, soccer, cricket,
and jai alai.
Organization/School Name:
Excalibur One | State: Texas | Country: United States of America
| Date: 05-18-2000 | Contact
Info
On Jan. 1999, I was home ill and I
was listening to Mrs. Hillary Clinton speak to the Mayor's Winter
Conference Convention in Washington D.C.. She mentioned the
Mars Millennium Project which started the wheels turning in
my head. Immediately I called The Jet propulsion Lab and started
my communication with Kathy Davis going. I received my registration
form from Ms. Kathy Davis on or about Mar 1999. I quickly registered
my community team named "Excalibur One". We are Four from two
different School Districts. The Participation Guide followed
on or about May 1999. We received it from the US Dept. of Education
and Mr. Andrew Finch. Our community involvement has been limited,
I approached my city mayor, Betty Flores to ask her why she
had not brought these great news with her to involve our community
she had no reply. I wrote to her, our State Representative,
Henry Cuellar, State Senator, Judith Zaffirini, to inform all
of them that I had started our own Mars Team but none deemed
it important enough to write back. We have not had much luck
with our politicians but we still move forward and we will install
our Mars project into this web site on May 31, 2000. I may only
be 14, but I will not allow any politician to place limitations
on my potential and growth.
Organization/School Name:
Gallatin High School | State: Tennessee | Country: United States
of America | Date: 05-18-2000 | Contact
Info
I have 2 classes that are involved.
Each class has created its own community- 2nd block "Marscrest"
and 3rd block "Marsburg". We are currently in the process of
completing our community. We have looked at velocity and acceleration
graphs of shuttle travel, pie graphs of composition percentages
of Earth vs. Mars, and bar graphs of force comparisons between
Earth and Mars. We have conducted an experiment on hydroponics
and learned about possible energy resources on Mars. Our community
is divided into 5 specific councils- The Technical, Necessities,
Energy, Safety, and Living Councils. We have designed a flag,
patches, creeds, a mission statement, motto, pledge, and uniforms.
My classes will each give a presentation entitled "Journey to
Mars; An Information and Organization Meeting" to a group of
people who will be "Mars Applicatants".
Organization/School Name:
Sterling Park Elementary | State: Florida | Country: United
States of America | Date: 05-19-2000 | Contact
Info
The community was made livable by including all the basic
components that make up a community. The domed community has
a
hospital, school, recreation area, communication satellite station,
oxygen, water and power source, waste area, experiment lab,
housing, animal
and crop area, landing / launching area, government offices,
and storage. The location for this community is at a flat rocky
plain called Utopia Planitia. It is located at 44 N 226 W.
Before building we planned out our community on mural paper
to make it more organized. We made cut outs to arrange and rearrange
until we got it just right. Everything is located close by with
the living areas in the center and the support facilities around
the edge.
Our community is an inviting place to live and work because
every building
in the community is stable and neat. Our community is also an
inviting place to live because we made a recreation area for
the citizens of the community to have fun and exercise. Also
the community provides everyone with all the things they need
for life. [ food, water, air, and shelter]
Living on Mars can be similar to living on earth. It has seasons
and the temperature will be controlled inside the dome. The
many plants will give us air, shade, lumber, and paper products.
The trees are planted with
artificial soil and will be watered daily.
The community is managed and organized by the local government.
It provides laws and regulations so that it runs like a regular
community on our home planet. Everyone is proud to be a citizen
of Dust Storm Valley community. Everything works harmoniously
because the people are proud of their new home and everyone
works together.
The community has used their knowledge of technology and scientific
factors to create the domed community. The residents are provided
with air
to breathe, food to eat, and shelter. The experiment lab provides
a place for the scientists to discover , explore, design and
create.Through the use of computers and satellites,all experiment
ideas and results can be sent
back to earth for sharing.The scientist will explore the Martian
surface,atmosphere and other findings and maybe come up with
some new medical breakthroughs . The climate of Mars can be
studied and data
recorded and maybe answer questions to out weather conditions
on earth.
A Mars base could act as a stepping stone to the rest of the
solar system.
It could teach us how to set up other bases on more distant
planets or asteroids.
In the future I would like the Dust Storm Valley community to
be safe, stable, and state of the art. The Dust Storm Valley
community should be safe from sand storms because the sand may
get into the equipment and cause technical glitches. The community
should have stable buildings so, they
don't collapse. The community needs to have state of the art
equipment to make work easier and help progress it. Also I would
like the community to
be a model community for the world so everyone can work together
in peace and harmony and explore the universe with the latest
technology. Maybe through Martian exploration we can find new
cures for the sick and disabled.
Organization/School Name:
Washington Primary School | State: Connecticut | Country: United
States of America | Date: 05-22-2000 | Contact
Info
The students in Miss Patricia O'Connell's
third grade have been working on their Mars Millennium Project
since early in the school year. After researching conditions
on Mars and basic human needs, the children designed and built
a model of their city which would be home for 100 scientists
and support personnel. They also designed space ships to transport
the colonists and needed supplies to Mars for a year-long study
of the red planet.
Organization/School Name:
Myakka River Elementary | State: Florida | Country: Other |
Date: 05-22-2000 | Contact
Info
Children in Mrs. Graham's fourth grade
class have been working all year on their plan for the settlement
on Mars in the year 2030. This has been integrated into the
curriculum with language arts, math, social studies, and science
and the arts. Children have designed a flag, as well as the
settlment and have grappled with the problems of needs of the
habitat.
Organization/School Name:
Echo Horizon School | State: California | Country: United States
of America | Date: 05-24-2000 | Contact
Info
Echo Horizon School announces their
performance of “Legends of Mars 2030” on Wednesday, June 7,
2000 at 7pm.
For this project, students first studied the Mars habitat and
what it might take to get to and live on Mars in Science. In
Social Studies, they discussed the elements of their own community
and the issues involved in establishing a community. In Fine
Arts classes, they considered the impact of dance, music, drama,
technology, and visual art on their community.
Then, in Language Arts, students journeyed ahead to the year
2300 and wrote legends about what it was like when a community
of earthlings first settled on Mars. They wrote eight legends
encompassing different issues such as missions to mars, housing,
transportation, fashion, climate and geography, technology,
government, and human diversity.
“Legends of Mars 2030” is an interpretation of those legends
using dance, visual art, music, drama, and technology. The legends
will be performed in a live show for the school community on
June 7th.
•"Granny's Story", a legend which depicts the various attempts
to explore Mars, is interpreted as a story quilt made in visual
art.
•"The Legend of the Climate and Geography of Mars" is interpreted
as a computer animated movie.
•"Domes and Habitats" is interpreted through dance.
•"How Rules Came to Be" is a dramatic play.
•"How Our Transportation Came to Be" is interpreted as a claymation
movie accompanied by narration, music, and sound effects performed
by the students.
•"Fashion" is interpreted as a musical theatre piece.
•"Robots and Technology" is interpreted as a story quilt made
in visual art.
•"What Next?" is a legend about diversity which will be interpreted
through dance.
Please visit our website at: http://www.ehs.pvt.k12.ca.us/ehs/projects/9900/6/mars2030/mars2030.html
The text of the legends is currently available. Images and video
clips from the performance of each legend will be posted on
the website after June 7.
Organization/School Name:
Avella Elementary Center | State: Pennsylvania | Country: United
States of America | Date: 05-25-2000 | Contact
Info
Second to sixth grade students in
our Elementary Gifted Support program as well as fifth and sixth
grade Young Astronauts worked together to create their own version
of the Martian colony for 2030. The Young Astronauts explored
transportation issues involved in getting the colonists to the
Martian surface. The Gifted Support students researched and
developed a model of the surface colony.
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