The Mars Generation

(2017) TV-PG - 97m

Self-professed teenage "space nerds" at Space Camp chase their dreams of traveling to Mars, while experts reflect on NASA's history and future.

Abigail Harrison is a girl with a dream. She aspires to be an astronaut. But it doesn’t stop there–she dreams of becoming the first astronaut to Mars. With dreams this big, it takes setting goals and working hard each day to make them a reality. In 2011, at the age of 13, Abby began to speak publicly about her dreams. Her work over the years as an international STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) and space ambassador has led to a following of over one million people on social media.

In 2015, at the age of 18 years old, Abby founded The Mars Generation, a 501c3 nonprofit with the support of an advisory board of astronauts, engineers, scientists and her hundreds of thousands of online supporters.

A lot of students immediately assumed that you have to have a very high IQ and strong engineering skills to be part of it and while it is true that,  it does help to have such background; it doesn’t mean they can’t be part of it ~ our dreams shouldn’t be crush from traditional paths or the way we are told to do it.

A couple of young girls told me that  robotics, computers, space would are topics their brothers talk about and why was I ( a girl )  be in any way interested in it?

My first answer to come out was ” because its our history, it’s there.” I moved on with how robots carry out with humanity dreams and how AMEE won third place in the nation for NASA’s mining competition.  I also mentioned that if I am going to call my self a Mars Generation person I should in any way contribute and whether or not our ideas are taken by NASA at least they can built on from those ideas. I had a very positive reaction made by all the girls 🙂

On the other hand, I admired my teammate’s way of talking to students and faculty; he is passionate about our project and he can clearly put them into words; he was able to capture anyone’s attention to AMEE and encourage students to consider joining any STEM related field.

To conclude with today’s post I thought that STEM fest was a great place to start reaching out to younger generations. At the end of the day we received invitations from faculty to visit them  and talk about AMEE and our 2018 mining project.

**** A few pictures from the STEM Festival.

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30 Day Movie Challenge 2 – Day 1

  Day 1: Best New Movie You Saw Last Year

  The Martian

  There’s no debating this choice.  Science, Mars, potatoes, and Matt Damon.

I’m not going to delve too deeply into this movie, because I’ve talked about it a bit in previous blogs (here and here).  I am, however, going to highly recommend it, again.

And conclude with a shameless plug for The Mars Generation 😇.

  What’s the best new movie…