(Giorgia & Eleonora) Greg showed the project to DUG members here in Salt Lake City!

DUG is the Digistar Users Group, that is, the group of people who use the Digistar software in their planetarium. We meet every year in a different location, this year we are in Salt Lake City, at Evans&Sutherland.

In these photos you can see Greg (very stylish!) and Giorgia talking to the audience, more than 60 people from all over the world (Eleonora was taking the picture).

We hope to increase the number of our followers!!!

Pictures of the buildings involved

Hello all...I have asked for some pictures of the respective institutions. Thank you so much for those who provided the photos. First up is a picture of Vallauri, the educational institution:



Next is the USA counterpart, Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA):


You can already see the buildings of Infinito and Sci-Port (at least as of this posting), but there was an interesting picture gifted by Infinito:

In case you didn't know snow is a rarity here in Louisiana. However, it snowed earlier this year (Jan 29), so we too have a picture of Sci-Port with snow. Here is a picture of snow around Sci-Port:


OK...there's not as much as snow as at Infinito, but still it's worth sharing.

Ciao,
Greg

Google Photo

Hello all...You may have noticed one of the followers of the blog without a photo is named "Brick in the Wall" which represents the Google account. In case anyone's wondering, I do have a photo for the Google Account for the Brick in the Wall photo uploaded, but it is not showing up. I spent the last 40 minutes reloading the image, then checking out the blog to see if it updated and.....still not happening. However, I'm a firm believer of QED: As long as the possibility isn't absolutely zero, there is a chance that at some point and time the profile picture will be updated!

Greg

progress in Louisiana

Hey everyone!
Last week I traveled to Louisiana School to present to the students about the program. They picked up applications. The Louisiana School has selected 7 students + 1 alternate to participate!
Greg and I also did our "getting to know you" scripts. Now I'm trying to create the loan agreement for the dongles. !!! And trying to figure out how to wire money to Italy.
See you all soon- I think we're skyping at 9:00 Louisiana time on Friday.
Abracci,
Rebecca

(Giorgia) Project presented to Italian teachers!

Hi all!
Today it was an open day for teachers at our planetarium.
Eleonora and I presented the project and showed the timeline, then we invited all the teachers to follow our blog... They were really interested and quite envious of their colleagues of Vallauri!
See you soon!
Giorgia

Giorgia (Italy Project Coordinator) is back again!

Hi to all of you!
I'm back again at work and ready to start this exciting adventure!

I had joined ExchangesConnect and State Alumni a few days ago (that was quite an easy thing to do), but I had some troubles in joining this blog. It was quite tricky find the right way to become a FOLLOWER of this blog!

So now I'm going to share with you what I did.
In order to follow the blog you should first have a google account.
In the google bar at the top left of the page www.google.com I chose Blogs and I was sent to the google blog search.
Here comes the tricky part: I had to look for the right blog, but I tried writing the name of the blog in many many different ways before finding the right one (notjustanotherbrickinthewall-mcca).

Then, the next part was easy: click on the shown link, reach the blog and click on the Follow box on the right.

Did anyone find another easier way to do it?

If not, in the next days I'll get my colleagues join the blog in the same way I did.

See you soon!

Giorgia

Oscar Cambieri (Vallauri student coordinator)

Hello everybody!
I'm back from holiday, ready and excited to start this beautiful adventure.
Just saw the videos Chris King posted; they are very nice indeed... a perfect starting point.
Soon we'll decide about the students and will involve them directly.
See you...