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Mouse Squad Fieldtrip to the Moon! APPLY NOW!
On January 8th, 2008 by meredith
On Wednesday, March 12th, 50 Mouse Squad middle school students will attend our first-ever Fieldtrip to the Moon, hosted by the American Museum of Natural History!
WHEN: Wednesday, March 12th
WHERE: Rose Center for Earth and Space in the American Museum of Natural History on 81st Street at Central Park West, NYC. Mouse will not provide private transportation, the museum is near the subway and several bus lines.
WHO: Fieldtrips are for middle school Mouse Squads only. (Much like our advanced Mouse Corps program is only for high schools!) Space is limited for this trip, you must first fill out the application (below) to find out if your school can attend - we can only provide tickets for 1 adult chaperone per school, and 10 Mouse Squad students per school.
APPLY: Applications are due Wednesday, January 30th. Download the Application here. Email this application to [email protected], or fax it ATTN: Meredith, Mouse to 212.226.5619. We will announce which schools have been accepted by February 6th. We require that each student who attends this trip actively participates in Mouse Squad: they must have an account on www.mousesquad.org and they must have at least started the process of becoming a certified Mouse Squad technician.
SCHEDULE:
| 10AM | Schools must arrive before 10AM. |
| 10:30 - 11AM |
Fieldtrip to the Moon Take a virtual trip to the Moon in the immersive Hayden Planetarium. Feel the ground shake beneath you as you experience a thrilling NASA rocket launch. Guided by a live presenter, you will orbit the Earth and get an astronaut's view of a sunrise in space. Field Trip to the Moon is a virtual journey created using NASA engineering models and scientific data. Like NASA's astronauts, you will come face-to-face with the challenges and excitement of traveling through space to land on the Moon. Along the way, you'll discover some of the differences between the Earth and the Moon and what makes our planet unique and habitable. |
| 11AM - 12PM | Guided Tour of the Rose Center for Earth and Space |
| 12 - 12:45PM | Lunch in the Museum Cafeteria: Mouse provides students with $10 lunch vouchers. |
| 1 - 1:30PM | Cosmic Collisions |
Developed in collaboration with and programmatic support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cosmic Collisions will expand students' concepts and knowledge of the Earth, the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Universe and introduce current findings in astrophysics.
The rest of the fieldtrip’s schedule is optional and will not be guided by Mouse –
if you are required to be back at your school by a certain time, you may choose not to stay for these events. But each ticket includes the IMAX show ticket (worth $16), so if you can get permission to stay for the entire school day, we recommend it!!
OPTIONAL: IMAX SHOW: Dinosaurs Alive!
Dinosaurs Alive! is a stunning large-format film, narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Michael Douglas. The film follows Museum paleontologists Mike Novacek and Mark Norell and an inspired team of dedicated young graduate students as they hunt for dinosaur remains in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. Together they uncover evidence that the descendents of dinosaurs still walk (or fly) among us.
New York FIRST Robotics Competition
On January 7th, 2008 by Mister G
Mouse is looking for High Schools that are planning to participate in NYC First Robotics Competition (FRC) at the Javits Center on April 4, 2008 – April 6, 2008. If your school is planning to participate then Mouse wants to be there to cheer you on. You can email me Juan at [email protected] , or [email protected] at [email protected].
For more information about the FRC you can visit USFIRST.org or you can read the description below
What is FRC?
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a unique varsity sport of the mind designed to help high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be.
The FIRST Robotics Competition challenges teams of young people and their mentors to solve a common problem in a six-week timeframe using a standard "kit of parts" and a common set of rules. Teams build robots from the parts and enter them in a series of competitions designed by Dean Kamen, Dr. Woodie Flowers, and a committee of engineers and other professionals
Mouse @ NECC 2008
On December 21st, 2007 by Anonymous
The International Society for Technology in Education accepted two Mouse proposals for the 2008 National Education and Computing Conference (NECC). MouseCORPS students will be presenting their experiential learning projects and we will lead one panel discussion: "Urban Professionals: City Schools Certify Student Help Desk Technicians." Here's an overview of our certification panel:
In business, when a person is certified by a professional group, customers can trust that they are working with skilled experts. In this spirit, the Mouse Squad program certifies middle and high school students as technology help desk technicians who deliver high quality service through student run technology help desks.
Participants to this session will hear three real cases of implementing the program from certification to help desk operations. The panelists, who are educational leaders on the ground in New York, California, and Chicago, will share their experiences through short digital stories from each program site. Stories will include information about how they trained their program coordinators, their faculty, and their students. They will also provide a picture into how Mouse Squad is changing the role of technology and technology support personnel in their schools and how student technicians feel the program has changed them.
Participants will receive a framework for implementing their own technology help desk in their schools or districts, and they will be invited to participate in Mouse Squad's online community where they can access plans and curriculum materials and collaborate with schools across the country that are at various stages of implementation.
We're looking forward to a strong Mouse presence in San Antonio.
