Mrs.+Matte+at+Space+Center+Houston!

=Thursday 02.02.12 (Happy Groundhog's Day!)=
 * ====9:30 - Everyone! I hope ya'll are on your best behavior while I'm at my conference!! I just got here at 7am! Whew that was early! So far I have heard an amazing speaker. Her name is Maria Zuber. She is a very smart woman, who works at MIT. That is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I am about to go to my first workshop where I hope I can learn a lot of new and interesting things to bring back to class. Later today I will be scuba diving in a pool to try and fix a mock ISS. I can't wait to tell you all about it!! Oh I almost forgot. I signed our class up for something called MoonKam. We can actually take pictures of the moon.... OURSELVES! How cool is that?! I will tell ya'll more about it when I get back.====
 * ====3:30pm - My day has been going great! I went to a cool seminar where I got to look at some new computer software that let you travel through the entire universe. That was really neat. They let us know that this software is available at local planetariums. I need to see if we have a planetarium close by, that would be an awesome field trip.====
 * ====Now for my favorite part of the day, SCUBA DIVING! I had never done it before and let me just tell you, it was AWESOME! We started off by being trained in some basic scuba instruction. Basically they had to teach us how to breathe under water, and how to get water out of our goggles. Then we had to swim two laps under water. Once we completed basic training we got to go play in the deep end! That was really fun. After playing for awhile we got into groups and had to put together a bunch of pvc pipes. It was really hard to put things together under water. The team I was on won! WOOHOO. We did it in 4:05. We won a pin, not much but I still like knowing that I won:) I definately want to go scuba diving again in my future. I can't wait to see what tommorow brings. Don't forget your manners while I am away!====