A committee of teachers and school staff convened in December and has been working diligently to plan the event for the students at Highland.   Students rotated through stations exploring solar scopes and telescopes with Penn Dixie, space ooze, cosmic coloring, astronaut fitness, and paper airplane tossing.  Our food service provider, Sodexo, joined in the fun by offering space themed-boxed lunches.  Students were treated to a presentation from MOOG on the Space Shuttle.  The culmination of this fine day of experiences was the class rocket launch.  
     One of the days many highlights was the Student Signatures in Space which provided the students with opportunity to sign a poster provided by NASA to send their signatures into space and feel a personal involvement with the crew and the mission.  The Space Shuttle mission to carry this year's signatures will be selected this summer.  The mission carrying the signatures is usually one that occurs in the fall when school is back in session so that teachers can follow the mission together with their students in the classroom.  After the signatures return from space, the poster will be returned for permanent display at Highland along with a flight certificate and picture of the crew that carried the signatures into space.  
     This was an example of a wonderful collaborative Highland community effort, and a great learning, fun-filled day for students!