Horse breeder Denny Pietranduono explains how he introduced breeding horse to students at Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and how they picked up the routine of breeding horses
Farming and raising horses isn’t something people often associate with Chicago. When two race horses named Vega and Calling Card took up residence at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, students helped care for them.
The Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences (“CHSAS”) is a public secondary magnet school opened in 1985 by the Chicago Public Schools as a unique, experimental high school devoted to teaching agricultural science to urban students. The school is located on a 72-acre campus with 40 acres
dedicated to a working farm. The school was built on the site of the last farm to survive within the Chicago city limits. Students commute from all across the city to CHSAS.
All students are members of the FFA (formerly Future Farmers of America).
The space shuttle Discovery makes one final flight, on top of a Boeing 747, flying low and slow over much of Washington, D.C. The sight drew masses of people looking to the skies at places like the National Mall, as the AP’s Lee Powell found.
Discovery departed just after sunrise and arrived in the Washington, D.C. area around 10 a.m. Discovery was displayed with a 45-minute flyover in multiple circles around the Capitol, White House, the Mall and much of the Potomac River while in the piggyback configuration on a modified Boeing 747. A NASA T-38 chase plane was dwarfed by the Boeing 747.
After arriving at Dulles International Airport, the space shuttle Discovery will be moved on April 19 to the nearby Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center for permanent public display.
NASA VIDEO: Space shuttle Discovery was lifted and placed atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility mate/demate device in the early morning hours of April 15 in preparation for its ride to Washington Dulles International Airport on April 17.
Washington Times Video: The Space Shuttle Discovery Lands at Washington Dulles International Airport on Tuesday, April 17, 2012.
Washington Times Video: Touchdown at Dulles.
The anticipation and excitement of Space Shuttle Discovery’s final flight – a landing atop a 747 at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC / Chantilly, VA near Sully.
NASA Video: The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferrying orbiter Discovery performs a flyby at Dulles International Airport on Apr. 17 following its journey from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Want to be an astronaut? Follow the advice of Dr. Anna Fisher — the first mother to fly in space:
Dr. Anna Fisher pulled a boy named Ethan out of the crowd. He was dressed up as a NASA pilot. Fisher asked him if he wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. Ethan answered, “Yes.” A reporter asked Fisher, “Any advice for Ethan, an aspiring astronaut?” Fisher replied, “Study Russian.”
Here is the Lake Superior State University 2012 List of Banished Words
AMAZING
“The word has been overused to describe things only slightly better than mundane. I blame Martha Stewart because to her, EVERYTHING is amazing! It has lost its ‘wow factor’ and has reached ‘epic’ proportions of use. It’s gone ‘viral,’ I say! ‘I’m just sayin’!’ Alyce-Mae Alexander, Maitland, Florida
The stars of the TV show ‘Mythbusters’ visit a California neighborhood to survey the damage after one of their experiments went bad. A cannonball missed its target and careened into homes, knocking holes in walls.
Mythbuster host Jamie Hyneman: “There will be no cannons fired in this area — at least by us – again.”
Extraordinary Partnership with Space Adventures and World Renowned Space Agencies Ignites Students’ Passion for Science, Space, and Technology
YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation with Space Adventures and space agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), today announced YouTube Space Lab, a worldwide initiative that challenges 14-18 year-old students to design a science experiment that can be performed in space. The two winning experiments will be conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and live streamed on YouTube. Space Lab is part of YouTube’s larger commitment to highlighting and providing access to the wealth of educational content available on YouTube as well as Lenovo’s focus on equipping students with 21st century skills via information technology.
The world’s biggest extraterrestrial explorer is on its way to Mars. NASA on Saturday launched the six-wheeled, one-armed robotic rover, nicknamed Curiosity.
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity was launched November 26, 2011 at 10:02 EST. The MSL is scheduled to land on Mars at Gale Crater between August 6 and August 20, 2012. The super-size rover Curiosity will help assess Mars’ habitability. Curiosity’s primary mission objective is to determine whether Mars is or was an environment able to support life. The mission is not searching for life forms. It will also analyze samples scooped up from the soil and drilled from rocks.
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