Mr. Tanenbaum's Technology Resources

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 Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory.

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 journey of over a million miles, Cygnus arrived at the International Space Station.

At 6:36 AM on Wednesday, July 16th, 260 miles above Libya, astronaut Steve Swanson reached out with the stations robotic arm and grabbed our spacecraft.  Next, astronauts used the station’s robotic arm to slowly moved the capsule into a docking port on the Earth Facing side of the ISS.  At 8:53 AM, our spacecraft was bolted into place and docking was complete.  Take a look at the photos below (credit:  NASA TV).

Would you like to see the station with your own eyes?  You can often view it just after sunset or just before sunrise.  Use this NASA website to find opportunities near you.

NCESSE’s SSEP on-orbit educational research opportunity is enabled through NanoRacks, LLC, which is working in partnership with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory.

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 13th.  Not pictured:  Colm Shalvey.

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.  Please help save it from being terminated.  As of 2015, the program is slated to end if we do not act.  Please click here to sign our petition and feel free to add your comments.  Thanks.

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 called K9, just click here.

For a tutorial on how to use K9 Filtering Software, click here.

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 for free on PC’s or Macs. Click here for more information:

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 bridge it built in San Fransisco at the moment it put out to sea.  What luck!  Since I saw it leave the Left Coast on December 22nd, I might be able to figure out when it will get here!  All I have to do is use Google Earth to measure the distance.  It was travling about 8.2 nautical miles per hour (carefull that’s not the same as miles per hour!) when I saw it go.  That should be all I need to figure out when it will get here!  Try it yourself and post your estimate in the comments.  Let’s see who gets the closest!  Good luck!

the Left Coast Lifter Leaving California