Fly Me To The Moon

I was playing around with some Frank Sinatra audio clips this weekend while I was pulling together a video collage of some photos I took at my niece's wedding in New York last week. Frank's sentimental music seems to still resonate when it comes to weddings and romance. So, the song "Fly Me To the Moon" began to bounce through my brain when I read this e-mail inviting me to "pass the word" about a new Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education site.

The invitation states:

Journey through the Universe is a national science education initiative that engages entire communities using education programs in the Earth and space sciences and space exploration to inspire and educate. The initiative embraces the notion that - it takes a community to educate a child - which is the basis for the program¹s Learning Community Model of program delivery.

The program offers a broad array of grade K-12 programming, curricular content, and resources that a community can use to create a customized Journey through the Universe program: reflecting their strategic needs in STEM education growing from local standards of teaching and learning and NCLB; that can be delivered systemically across an entire school district; and that is designed to be sustainable.

It looks kinda cool, but then I'm just one of those "junior exploders" who never grew up.

~John Brandt