Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope that you had a blessed day filled with family and memories. 

I had the opportunity to spend the day with my niece, nephew, Mom, brother, and sister-in-law.  It was our first year to not spend it at our house b/c we traveled to their place.  It appears our traditions are slowly changing, but as long as we are together, I guess that is all that matters.  It was a good day with great food, good conversation, and relaxing time together.

How did you spend your day?

And . . . because an educator's job is never done, we spent part of the evening working on my nephew's Science Fair project.  Yep!  We know how to spend a holiday. 

Busy November & a Science Conference

The last two weeks have been quite busy.  The weekend after Halloween was slow and restful, but then it got busy.

I spent the evening of November 5th through the afternoon of November 9th about 4 hours south of my home at a state Science conference.  I was blessed to hang out with some great people, learn a lot, get a little exercise, and enjoy a little time away. We were really busy, but it was also relaxing and a really wonderful time.

While at the conference, I had the opportunity to hear Adam Steltzner. He was great! He played Bass in a Rock Band at 21 and was a Rocket Scientist at 30.  Amazing story on how he became interested in Science and started on his path toward NASA.  When he finished speaking, I still wanted to know more.

Adam Steltzner

"Adam Steltzner, the lead mechanical engineer for the crucial entry, descent and landing events when the rovers reach Mars, agrees. On top of being an award-winning teaching fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Adam was also in a rock band. And he loves his job at NASA.

"'It's certainly been the high point of my career. . . working on this essential phase of the mission," he said. "It's been an absolutely incredible experience, very gratifying.'"  Retrieved from http://marsrover.nasa.gov/spotlight/marsapalooza02.html on November 16, 2013.

Girl Led Girl Scout Meeting

Tonight, our Girl Scout meeting was truly girl led.

One of the Brownies had chosen to lead the other Brownies in the Senses badge.  She brought everything she needed, so I had them work in a separate room.  She did a great job working through the activities.  The girls had a great time!

Our Junior who was going to lead the badge work for her group did not make the meeting, so I had the Cadettes work with the Juniors.  The Juniors chose to work on the Drawing badge.  All the girls chose the parts they wanted to do and began the badge.

All I did was get out Fall/Thanksgiving foam pieces for them to do a craft while we waited for everyone to arrive.  I then went between the two groups monitoring them.  That's it.  Great meeting!