Honoring Scientists and Engineers with Art

[JaneYoung]

418 is enjoying the process. Meeting with people who work closely with the rovers is so cool. We were in the department of Atmospheric Sciences at A&M College Station last week. A side trip was a tour of the building, including the observation deck where they study different weather phenomenon. In Texas, if you don't like the weather, just wait a minute, it will change.

We are hoping to have our art project ready for ship before the Christmas holidays arrive. That's the plan anyway. Good stuff, this.
Jane

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

418 is enjoying the process.

We are hoping to have our art project ready for ship before the Christmas holidays arrive. That's the plan anyway. Good stuff, this.
Jane

The plan changed to May '07. The team has finished the project and I've promised to post a photo in the thread. It's been raining all weekend and hasn't cooperated with the promise. When I post the photo, I'll also give a very brief summary of what we did and how the process went. Briefly, it has been a great experience for the members of the team who participated. And the cool thing is, we are shipping a sculpture that is a result of a partnership in our school with the art department and a visit with a professor at Texas A&M - out east for the mural.

[JaneYoung]

Ok, so this is a wire sculpture of a dust devil.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...dustdevils.htm
Our team met with Dr. Mark T. Lemmon at Texas A&M, College Station, to discuss Mars dust and how it affects the Mars rovers. From that lecture/discussion the team came up with how they best wanted to portray their time spent with Dr. Lemmon. It developed into the dust devil - a sculpture shape that will make a nice addition to the American Mural Project, we hope. A small group of LASA Robotics team members and art students who joined the team for this project, traveled to A&M and then made the project decisions together. One of the art students worked closely with our lead teacher, Mr. Bertucci (shown in the photo), along with our art teacher, Mr. Newman. The sculpture was constructed in the shop. The project was introduced to the team last June after I read Jaine's post and it was finished this past week. We met with Dr. Lemmon in late fall after school had started and waited until we were finished with our competition seasons (we also compete during the fall semester in BEST) to complete the sculpture. It is a worthwhile project and I would encourage all of you to read Jaine's original post, discuss it with your teams, and contribute to Ellen Griesedieck's American Mural Project.

Jane

[mrs. p]

very cool. our team will also be at IRI and we are participating in the project as well. i'd love to talk more with you about it

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by mrs. p

very cool. our team will also be at IRI and we are participating in the project as well. i'd love to talk more with you about it

Hey mrs. p -
If you are talking to me, I would love to share the experience. Ellen and Jaine have asked me to put together a how-to summary that includes some of the roadblocks we ran into. I would be happy to help in any way.
Jane

[mrs. p]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Hey mrs. p -
If you are talking to me, I would love to share the experience. Ellen and Jaine have asked me to put together a how-to summary that includes some of the roadblocks we ran into. I would be happy to help in any way.
Jane

awesome, hopefully we'll find a few spare minutes at IRI. thanks for the offer