Prairie STEM

A huge congratulations to every student and team from all the schools who participated today in our Robotics and stem competition at Howard Kennedy school! Huge thank you to the staff of Howard Kennedy for hosting the event and for our staff and our magnificent volunteers who helped everything run smoothly! Looking forward to our events next year!

We are so thankful to have the support of meta and had a wonderful time connecting with all the other amazing organizations receiving grants! Thank you for empowering us to do great things for our community and Sarpy county!
Sarpy Data Center

Please consider volunteering next Saturday!

Here is another example of how use the skills displayed and perfected on Esports teams applies to real world careers!

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The Federal Aviation Administration is targeting gamers in a new push to tackle a major shortage of air traffic controllers.

Per a report in the NY Times, officials say video game players bring useful skills like quick thinking, focus, and strong hand-eye coordination, which can translate well to the job.

The agency is trying to fill thousands of open roles and has even launched a new ad campaign aimed at younger applicants.

A hiring window opens from April 17, with a cap of 8,000 applicants.

We Love all the excitement for STEM and the space program that we have been seeing since the Artimis program started!! Thanks STEM-apalooza for sharing this awesome graphic!

𝗔 𝟱𝟰-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
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Thanks to Sky&Earth for this timely infographic!

🚀 SAME SHAPE. 54 YEARS APART. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORLDS INSIDE. 🌕

The Apollo Command Module and Orion Crew Module look almost identical from the outside.
The laws of aerodynamics have not changed. The cone shape that survives reentry in 1972 is still the best option in 2026.
But step inside, and it is a different universe.

📐 The Numbers Tell the Story:
Apollo: 6.2 m³ of habitable space for 3 astronauts. That is smaller than a standard bathroom.
Orion: 8.95 m³ for 4 astronauts, a 50% increase, with room for two tiers of activity.
Diameter grew from 3.9 meters to 5.02 meters, a change that sounds modest but transforms the interior completely.

🖥️ The Computer Gap Is Almost Impossible to Grasp:
The Apollo Guidance Computer ran at 2 MHz with 4 KB of memory.
Orion's computers are 200,000 times more powerful.
Apollo astronauts navigated to the Moon with less computing power than a modern calculator.

🚽 The Detail Nobody Talks About:
Apollo had no toilet. For 14 days. Three men. They used bags.
Orion has a dedicated waste management system. A toilet. This sounds trivial. At day 10 of a deep space mission, it is not.

🛡️ The One Thing Both Share: AVCOAT.
Both Apollo and Orion use Avcoat ablative material on their heat shields, the same fundamental chemistry, refined across 54 years.
Some things in physics simply cannot be improved upon. They can only be perfected.

What surprises you most about this 54-year leap?

Drone Safety Day sponsored by the FAA is 2 weeks from Today! Lots of activities and resources and Groups helping keep the skys safe for everyone! Check out the web site for more information!
We hope the thousands of students we have trainind to fly drones have a safe and fun day flying on the 25th!!
Up Up and Away!!!!

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Whether you fly your drone for business or for fun, we want you to get involved in on April 25th! Help the FAA spread the word on how to fly safe by hosting an event or participating in your local area. Learn how you can get involved at: https://bit.ly/4eff6yn.

We had a spectacular stem night at Bergen Elementary School in fremont. We are so happy to partner with such an amazing educational community!

As we were watching the Artemis 2 Splashdown and watching the heat shields, we are happy to have original heat shields from NASA and the space shuttle program that we can use for experiments with students to inspire future generations.