Howdy!

Would you help us prepare a Collaborative Moon Colony, called Kids On The Moon? We plan to settle quickly and set up food and oxygen resources; then we'll begin to create a robot factory to generate robots to prepare a small space on Mars for human habitation.

To Register:

Just send your teacher's name, e-mail address, and grades/ages of students, school address, and approx.#students participating to Sister Dianne Mollica (dmollica@pilot.njin.net). We'll add you to a sort-of-listserve group so that you can get all the news and information from all participatants.

Now, for YOUR part:

We invite you each week to conduct a short survey or activity or experiment. Then send us (dmollica@pilot.njin.net) your results. We'll post a short data summary on the Web, but a more detailed report by an individual broadcast file of all of you who participate.

Here are a few previews of topics beginning on Jan.2:

Week 1: Survey on inherited abilities versus developed talent

Week 2: Near-zero gravity reflex test

Week 3: Create a Graphic design of a short-trip jet or airborne vehicle for getting around the moon and/or short trips to a space station orbiting Earth's moon. (Send us the uuencoded gifs (with your student's name and school on the graphic)

Week 4: Nutrition Sugar Test (an experiment)

Week 5: Lung Capacity Test (another experiment)

Week 6: Options: (1) Create a graphic design of your Moon colony (underground or otherwise..but be care of frequent meteorite attacks) and including a protected, but above ground crop-area with separate compartments to contain small areas in case of meteorite bombardment.. Or...(2) Brainstorm and decide on as a large classroom group which foods would be easiest to grow and most nutritious for our Moon Pioneers.. on the Biosphere III areas..Send a brief description (1 page only) and a graphic representation (uuencoded gif).

Week 7: Robotics!! Once the Moon Base is stabilized, we would build robots that could be sent on unmanned missions to Mars in order to begin to make one small area habitable..So, we'd ask for Logo or Microworlds (LCSI) procedures that would generate a quilt pattern, build a robot graphic, or duplicate the spiral of the M100 Galaxy, whose photo can be downloaded from Nasa's Web site.

Week 8: A Surprise...

Won't you SHARE THE ADVENTURE? Please join us!

... and may the Force Be With You!!

Love,

ICS Students in Somerville,

New Jersey,USA

I want to get started! Take me to the Survey.

Take me to the RESULTS! I want to see the results of these experiments.

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Sister Dianne Mollica, IHN Immaculate Conception School 41 Mountain Ave. Somerville, New Jersey, USA 08876