Well....the time has come to shut off the computers and put up the rocket and rover materials. It seems like only yesterday I got the great news that I would be leading this new program into unknown territories and taking students on a crazy aerospace engineering adventure. This first year with the Mableton Starbase 1.5 Club, we graduated 45 students! I am extremely proud of my students for working hard, playing hard, and just going with the flow. This has been the most rewarding teaching experience I have ever had. It has renewed my sense of purpose and taught me a lot about the different aspects of engineering as well. I learned right along with the students!
Our graduation ceremony was Wednesday, May 13th here at Mableton in our beautiful courtyard. It seemed only fitting that we hold our ceremony outside under the beautiful sky and among the stars and atmosphere that we learned so much about. The students and parents enjoyed some light refreshments before the ceremony catered by the delicious McIntyre's Bakery in Smyrna, Georgia. The ceremony started off with a welcome by our amazing principal Mrs. Kym Eisgruber, and was following by our special guest speaker, Mr. John McKay, Peach State Starbase Director. Mr. McKay spoke to guests about the Starbase program in general and explained how our Starbase 1.5 program got started here at Mableton. The students were called up to receive a certificate of completion, an inaugural mission patch, and to pose for a grade level picture.
It was a wonderful evening and a great way to end an amazing 6 months of planning, teaching, learning, and exploring! I can't wait to see what the future holds for this program! Enjoy the pictures!
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| The parents and guests start to arrive in the Courtyard at MES |
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| Patiently waiting for the ceremony to start |
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| Our refreshments! |
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| The centerpiece highlighted pictures of the students working on some mission objectives. We also displayed our inaugural mission patches and one of our notebooks. |
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| Mr. John McKay, Director of Peach State Starbase and guest speaker for the ceremony |
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| Our Starbase 1.5 4th and 5th grade graduates |
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| Mrs. Eisgruber introducing me! |
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| Ms. Waters and Mrs. Arends, MES Administrators handed out certificates |
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| MES Starbase 1.5 5th grade Students |
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| MES Starbase 1.5 4th Grade Students |
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| MES Starbase 1.5 3rd Grade Students |
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