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Hopes to the Moon
Do we have something to share with you. This is soooooo cool! Penn State Outreach is sponsoring a great opportunity for students. The Readiness Institute at Penn State, in collaboration with Global Moonshots in Education, is collecting messages of hope from students, educators, and members of the global community and then sending those messages to the moon to create a lasting reminder that the hopes of today can become the reality of tomorrow.
Once your hope has been sent to the moon, every time you look into the night sky, you’ll be reminded of what it is that you’re hoping for and how your actions can contribute to the greater good of community and future readiness.
The initial due date was January 22, 2021, but that date has been extended to March 1, 2021. The Penn State Outreach will be collecting hopes using an online form. These hopes will then be saved on an SD card, which will be placed in a durable storage capsule that has been created for space travel. In 2021, this capsule will be delivered to the moon’s surface on the Peregrine Lunar Lander, built by Astrobotic Technology, Inc., a space robotics company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Resources for Teachers (Please just know the date of Jan 22, 2021 is still listed on some pages, but I have a confirmation email that March 1, 2021 is the due date.)
Teachers, we’ve made it easy for you to bring the Hope Moonshot into your face-to-face or virtual classrooms. Download a lesson plan (pdf, 540KB) with an information outline, video, and discussion prompts, as well as a brief presentation deck (PowerPoint, 9MB) to share with your students. Thank you for helping your students send their hopes to the moon! Click on the image below for a video of HOPE.
Join the Hope Moonshot
Submit your hope by March 1, 2021, then bookmark this page and check back regularly for:
- mission updates from Astrobotic
- information about the virtual launch party in 2021
- mission images and videos from Astrobotic
- a printable certificate commemorating your participation
Look on the right hand side of this Blog post for our next prize give-a-way. Could it be you? SECs or Program Designee will be nominating staff or classes each month and the winner or winners will be randomly selected using Wheel of Names featured in last week’s Blog. Good Luck!
