Mark Dunk’s Blog

The 6th attempt was the charm for Endeavor. Thanks to the father of one of my students, I was invited to watch the launch from NASA’s Johnson Space Center Mission Control in Houston! For a space fan like me, this was the opportunity of a lifetime!

I recently read an article from universetoday.com that talks about a group that is spearheading a movement to declare July 20th Space Exploration Day and July 16th – 24th as the U.S. Space Observance in honor of Apollo 11′s mission to the moon and back.  What do you think?  You can add your name to their petition by going to www.spaceexplorationday.us.  The primary supporter of this movement is the Utah Space Association.

A partnership between the Texas A&M AgriLIFE Extension service, the Texas Forest Service, and Houston Wilderness is hosting a summer nature challenge for southeast Texas.  The mission is to spend time this summer outdoors experiencing the participating parks and recreational areas in southeast Texas.  For more information, please visit essmextension.tamu.edu/naturechallenge/.

Click here for an article from tech&learning.com discussing new audiovisual tools for classroom use.

A recent cnn.com article by Chris Pirillo, technology enthusiast and president of Lockergnome.com, discusses his top 10 free online digital photography editing tools.

Click here for an article from cnn.com that discusses Rupert Murdoch’s plans to start charging people to access the online content on his newspapers’ web sites.

Click here for an article from scitech.blog.cnn.com on the next-generation search engine Wolfram|Alpha.

1st Annual Competition.  3 Divisions:
Elementary School:  Essay
Middle School:  Schematic
High School:  Model/Working Demo/Animation

for more information:  http://www.popsci.com/sciencecontest