Spent yesterday massacring marshmallow peeps and hanging out with a thousand 5th graders building Mars habitats.   The public schools here do a district-wide Mission to Mars project. I visited a handful of schools beforehand to talk about HI-SEAS, Mars and STEM. They gave me a table at the convention center to set up a […]

I spent two mornings this week volunteering at the Lockheed Martin Mars Experience. This is a traveling STEM outreach program that visits schools and museums across the country. The highlight of this is the virtual reality bus/Mars rover; the windows have been replaced with computer monitors and display a moving Mars landscape. It’s pretty slick. I […]

The suggestions are in and the crew has selected our favorite 20, now they are going back to you for voting. Voting is open until next Friday (February 6th). https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/89THPKV Martha has a explanation of the candidate names up on her blog. https://martianadventures.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/final-days-of-the-fish-naming-contest/