Author Archives: jtanenbaum

Here is video from the launch of Orbs 2 containing our lettuce experiment and mission patches!       NCESSE’s SSEP on-orbit educational research opportunity is enabled through NanoRacks, LLC, which is working in partnership with NASA under a Space … Continue reading →

We launched at 12:52 PM on Sunday, July 13th, and our spacecraft spent the next two days catching up with the International Space Station.  Early on the morning of July 15th, after circling the Earth over 40 times in a … Continue reading →

Congratualtions to SOCSD’s Space Program for a successful launch of our Lettuce experiment to the International Space Station.  Here are Oliva Jones, Zachary Visconti, Luke Rabinowitz and Carlee DeFrancesco viewing the Orbs 2 launch at Wallops Island, VA on July … Continue reading →

Check out this photo of Mr. T. holding ice from Antarctica courtesy of Linda Morris and the US Ice Drilling Team!  Ice cores like this are used to help us understand what the climate was like long ago.

Many of you have followed my voyages with the Teacher At Sea Program run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  If you did, you know what a difference this wonderful program makes in the lives of students and teachers.  … Continue reading →

Thanks to all those who attended our talk on Internet Safety at the William O Shaefer School.  You can find a PDF of the presentation at this link.   If you would like more information on the free internet filtering program we discussed … Continue reading →

All students will begin working on the West Point Bridge Design contest in the next few weeks.  Ours is a local contest and does not follow the same time-table as the national contest.  The program can be downloaded at home … Continue reading →

Zeebotics, our competition robotics team from Cottage Lane competed at Sleepy Hollow High School on February 1st.  Take a look at these wonderful pictures from our official team photographer, Stephanie Berger.  Thanks Stephanie!

Zeebotics, our Competition Lego Team will compete in a robotics tournament on Saturday, February 1st.  Check our their presentations, here!  Good luck, Zeebotics!

The Left Coast Lifter is a massive crane which is being brought from San Fransisco to New York to work on the new Tappan Zee Bridge.  By a strange stroke of luck, I happened to be biking on the new … Continue reading →