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mckinney falls 2007 (May 12-13)| Last trip of the year for the 2006-2007 Fulmore Middle School GT program. Ms. Connor and Mr. Harris are especially thankful to the parents who chaperoned. Thank you to Mr. Vega, Mr. Ballard, Mr. Ramirez, Mr. King, Mr. Bingham, & Mr. & Mrs. Boswell. |
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Practice Tent Set Up (May 4th, 2007)| In preparation for the camp out, students pitched their tents on the 3rd floor hallway. |
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GPS GT Team Challenge (Saturday, April 28, 2007)| Two teams, four students on each team, three caches hidden, racing against the clock, solving puzzles, finding caches, and more difficult than originally thought. |
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GPS Saturday (Saturday, April 14, 2007)| Many thanks to all the parents who assisted with today's geocaches. In addition to the pictures, I have included the instructions and coordinates of today's event in case those who missed today want to give it a try with their parents. |
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GPS Greenbelt (03.03.07)| On Saturday, March 3, students, parents, and teachers from Fulmore Middle School went geocaching. Instead of the traditional log book at the end of the geocache, however, students were asked to solve a mathematics puzzle. Mr. Harris and Ms. Connor would like to thank all of the parents who attended this trip. |
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GPS Introduction (Saturday, February 17, 2007)23 students attended the Introduction to GPS. After students received basic instruction, they entered in the waypoints for five hidden caches located on the Fulmore Middle School campus, and, working in teams of two, they were off. Afterwards, students logged the waypoints into http://boulter.com/gps/ and compared where they were on the ground with the map imagery. There will be a few more geocaching experiences this semester.
Students are encouraged to explore www.geocaching.com, and get a Garmin etrex device and start geocaching. "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Geocaching" by Jack Peters is also a useful guidebook. Students are also encouraged to download the google.earth application.
Here are the waypoints to Mr. Harris' classroom: N 30 degrees 14.606 and W 97 degrees 44.994.I would like to thank Juan Orozco of the Austin ISD Technology department for getting me started and hooked on geocaching. |
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Mckinney Roughs (020207)Pictures from the GT trip to Mckinney Falls on February 2, 2007-February 4.
For now, I have posted all the pictures. I will go back in the next day or two and delete some pictures and rotate pics that need to be turned upright. |
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NASA Trip (Fri.-Sun., November 17-19,2006)| Students inthe Fulmore GT NASA design contest particpated in a weekend working trip to NASA. On Friday, we started with a tour to the Neutral Buoyancy Lab. Then, we went to Johnson Space Center for a mission briefing and educational classes. On Saturday, we took the NASA tram tour and then had more educational classes followed by 2 hours of free time at the museum. Then, on Saturday evening, some engineers (more details to come about the engineers) helped students work on their designs for the Lunar Outpost Challenge contest. |
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GT Meeting on 10-20-06 (Friday, October 20, 2006)| Students are continuing to work in their groups and develop their designs for the Lunar Outpost Design contest. |
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GT Meeting (Friday, October 6)| Students in the early phases of their Lunar Research Design Proposal. |
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