Project Discovery

Thank you NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin @Astro_Flow for the inspiring keynote at VAST and for the book you signed for the Barrett #KWBPride students! I shared with all my classes today #VASTPDI2025 #2025vastpdi

Loved the energy of the teachers who attended our presentation at the Virginia Association of Science Teachers VAST PDI conference in Alexandria! Thanks for the inspiration @KIDMuseumMD #2025vastpdi #VASTpdi2025 #science #STEM #MakerMindset

So excited to be starting Year 33 at Barrett Elementary in Arlington! First day of school fun gamification taking student attendance with inflatable planets, sentence stem and tally marks #KWBPride #Back2School

One of these plushies will fly around the Moon! The team received thousands of entries for the Moon Mascot contest — and narrowed them down to 25 finalists! Which zero gravity indicator do you think should join the Artemis II mission? nasa.tumblr.com/post/792596200…

@AstroAnnimal I remember you talking to our small group of teachers in Feb about the “Mars” baseline workout you’d just completed at NASA Johnson. When will you repeat the test?

Reconditioning starts immediately upon our return, no rest for the weary! The balance work is by far harder than the strength work … our small stabilizing muscles and vestibular systems have been pretty dormant. Also note how purple my legs are … my ankles and calves are swollen and the blood vessels are visible at the surface, a sign that my body is not quite adjusted to pumping blood up against the force of gravity. So we are in the gym daily for a couple months, doing specialized recovery training to help the body along.

@AstroAnnimal @Astro_Ayers @Astro_Onishi As an elementary school teacher, I’ve loved sharing your journey with my young students. Thanks for your photos and video messages from space! You are inspirational!

Hard to believe we are a week from our scheduled return, but we are! Crew-10 is scheduled to undock NET 1800 GMT on 6 August, splashing down 6.5 hours later off the coast of California. We are busy in preparations for Crew-11 arrival and our departure. Yesterday we checked out our suits and comm systems to make sure we do not have any surprises next week. Good checks all around, and it was fun to be back with the crew in Dragon.

@DrSianProctor @SpaceX @inspiration4x @airandspace Very special! I loved seeing your Inspiration4 spacesuit at the National Air & Space Museum during Flight Jacket Night Member Preview!

I love my @SpaceX @inspiration4x spacesuit and can’t believe she’ll be on display in the @airandspace next week in the new Futures in Space exhibit. I’ll be there Monday from 11-12 for a Q&A with Space History curator Emily Margolis. Come say hi! 👋🏾👩🏾‍🚀🚀🙏🏽 airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/event…

@TrevorMuir Thanks! My principal appreciates the book you autographed for her bsky.app/profile/drgaby…

@lsullivan Such an absolute joy spending the day with you all! What a kind, curious, and brilliant group of people.

Epic. Entertaining. Thought-provoking. Trevor Muir @TrevorMuir keynote at the Copenhaver Institute, Roanoke College #CopenhaverChats Innovation should serve the purpose of school. Harness the power of story to deepen student engagement and create meaningful learning

“Fewer Things, Better” Impactful keynote by Angela Watson @Angela_Watson Copenhaver Institute #copenhaverchats When you try to make time for all the good things, you run out of time for best things. What is best use of my time, and what could I eliminate to create time for that?

Celebrating the 25th birthday of the Margaret Sue Copenhaver Institute for Teaching and Learning! Theme: TEACHING WELL: Finding the Intersection of Required Curricula and Creative Pedagogy #copenhaverchats #teacher #SummerPD

Field Day fun! Beautiful weather for Barrett students to enjoy games, races and cool off with water and popsicles #KWBPride #smiles #school

Thank you Rosie Riveters for the STEM Pulley kits. The Barrett #KWBPride 3rd grade students loved building, lifting load of pennies, decorating and taking home to share with family #SimpleMachine #Science #SciArt

The Barrett Elementary School 2024-2025 yearbook has arrived! Student smiles! We are Mindful, Helpful, Powerful #KWBPride

Arlington Public Library invites students and adults to read 30 days (any amount of time) and earn a prize National baseball tickets and a free book to keep @ArlingtonVALib Summer Reading Program! Families may also check out DVDs, games, dolls, audio books #KWBPride

@AstroAnnimal Is Little Earth Zero G Indicator still on the International Space Station? Student curious if it is made of different materials than the one we have in our classroom

Thank you Killer Snails @KillerSnails1 for educational games like Biome Builder cards and digital simulation WaterWays where students tag and track sharks and develop solutions to problems like plastic pollution #ecology #science #curiosity #EdGames #STEMed

By kid request, the Bee-Bot is back! Two of the students came up with idea to program robot to deliver kind notes while others pretended Bee-Bot was an animal finding its habitat #KWBPride #EarlyChildhood #STEM #creativity

@AstroAnnimal Stunning! I will share the photos with my #KWBPride students :)

One of my favorite views out the window is the depth and patterns in the clouds. From the ground, they often look 2D. From an airplane, we see the enormity but not necessarily the patterns. Shadows can extend hundreds of miles, and the various patterns and shades are simply stunning. When the sun goes down, a lightning flash can accentuate that depth. We live on the most beautiful planet!

Thank you Kylie, Hunter and Aiden from Blue Origin @blueorigin for sharing Club of the Future at school this week. Our Barrett #KWBPride students are so excited about their Postcards to Space art flying on New Shepard rocket @clubforfuture #STEM #STEAM #SciArt