Ripper's Chatter

D. Ripollone is a STAR member of the Discovery Educator Network

Ripper's Chatter

Entries Tagged as 'Space Camp'

Lunar Egg Challenge- Pre-Build Part One

February 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Honeywell, Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project, School Events, Space Camp

“The Engineering Design Process is a series of steps engineers use to guide them in problem solving. Engineers must ask a question, imagine a solution, plan a design, create that model, experiment and test that model, then take time to improve the original – all steps that are crucial to mission success at NASA. What [...]

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NC Catholic Conference…. Greensboro

October 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Discovery, Honeywell, NASA, NASA explorers school, Space Camp, STEM, Web 2.0 Tool

After talking Angie Melcher into doing the conference with me I came to realize there was a lot of information we needed to get together. Well we did and what a team we made.  I think we were well received and had tons of information for those that attended. We started off by introducing the [...]

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First Week is in the Books!

September 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Honeywell, NASA, Space Camp

And it was great! Well I think it was great and I’m hoping the students had fun too. The first two days were filled with course outlines and lab safety. After, I had students randomly choose index cards labeled with different groupings. I did this last year and talked about it in a prior post, [...]

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Day 4: Last Day @ Langley

July 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, School Events, Space Camp, Teacher Workshop

The last day at our summer experience was full of Globe information. Jessica Taylor presented the different protocols used with the program. She reviewed some of the students opportunities available, such as student symposium, video competition and other events for students to get involved in. The day was filled with  information on how to use [...]

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Xbox and NASA?

July 21st, 2012 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, School Events, Space Camp, STEM, Teacher Workshop

Yep. It’s true, Xbox has partnered with NASA to bring a Mars Curiosity game to the Xbox Kinect platform.  The game simulates the “seven minutes” of terror, the landing. According to Jeff Norris of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the game shows what scientists will be going through on the night of August 5th when the [...]

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Mission Patch Explained

June 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Honeywell, NASA, Space Camp, Teacher Workshop

I know I have posted about this before, but I think I need to explain our patch. One of the activities we did at Space Academy was come up with a mission patch. I thought this was awesome since we came together as a team and came up with our patch. Here is the story [...]

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Space Academy Graduation Day

June 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Honeywell, NASA, Space Camp, Teacher Workshop

As I look back on the last day of Space Academy, I find my self wondering will I ever experience anything as awesome as this experience. It has been the best professional development as a teacher and a great personal experience. The last day began on a sad note, this was it we were going [...]

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Space Academy: Day 4 Rocket Launch

June 21st, 2012 · No Comments · Honeywell, NASA, Space Camp, Teacher Workshop

I will have to admit it was a hard time getting up on Day 4. They keep us moving at Space Camp, hardly any down time. And again the was packed with activities! By the time this day had rolled in I began to wonder if I could absorb any more information, my brain was [...]

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To Infinity and Beyond: Honeywell Space Camp Day One

June 17th, 2012 · 4 Comments · NASA, Space Camp, Teacher Workshop

Sorry about the corny title but I thought I would take a cue from the newspaper article (see last post) . Upon arrival at the airport we were greeted by a Staff Member from Space Camp and I knew the journey was beginning. First I would just like to say I never knew dorms could [...]

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Ripper’s Chatter

June 13th, 2012 · No Comments · NASA, Space Camp

This is my wordpress blog which I will be using to up date my summer experience at Space Camp and NASA : Ripper’s Chatter. Feel free to follow me there.

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