Operation Rocket - Smarter Every Day 39
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Uploaded by destinws2 on Jan 14, 2012
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Watch the girls on the far right at 2:10. They had no idea what a rocket was. Happy Principal at 2:42 on the far left.
The Gambia is the smallest country on the African Mainland. We went to a basic school and "performed an experiment" to measure the winds up in the sky. The teachers, children, and the principal loved it.
The location of the school was deep into the heart of The Gambia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farafenni
The custom music was created by "A Shell In The Pit".
Gordon has compiled an album of all his Smarter Every Day Tracks. It's pretty cool. Go buy it to help him make rent:
http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/album/smarter-every-day
The song used is "Rockets" by "A Shell In The Pit". Download it here:
http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/track/rockets
Stevo was living in The Gambia while he served in the US Peace Corps. No laws were broken to get the Rockets to the School. I mailed them months in advance LEGALLY. They were in a book because the Gambian postal workers have a nasty habit of stealing things they want. Books are pretty good camouflage!
We couldn't motivate kids to come out and watch, so we shot the first rocket for a small group of kids. After hearing the rocket and all their friends screaming and laughing they came running. The principal then instructed me to give an impromptu lesson on what rockets are, and why they are used to the whole school. While I gave the lesson, Stevo taught all the teachers how to reload and fire the rockets. In all, we did three shots and left the materials with the teachers for another day. The science teacher in particular was so excited he couldn't stop thanking us. He said getting the kids motivated about science education was difficult for him because of how many real world hardships the kids had. The Rockets being launched at the school was the talk of the town for several days. Kids who didn't show up to school that day were sad they had skipped. Many more showed up after that, which was part of the goal.... to get people excited about education in general.
Here is another video of someone else teaching well recieved STEM materials in The Gambia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwsHbbTOpwA
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This is the kind of stuff Youtube was made for.
1 month ago in playlist Featured SED episodes 71
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How do you know I'm not?
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why did i get a nice feeling watching his amusement ^^__^^^
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lol the Africans are like "silly white man, we play with rockets all the time. They are called RPGs!" kidding...
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awsome I feel so sorry for those kids dey were so shocked to see da rocket
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Video to jerky no good
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Allow me to bestow upon you a new appellation.: " Mr wizard of the 21 century" thank you for expanding my grandaughters horizons.
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like if the slow mo guy sent you here
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BIG UP SMARTER EVERYDAY AND THE BIG BOSS FPS RUSSIAN!!!!!!
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I'm hoping to serve with Mercy Ships aboard the Africa Mercy once I have the funds in place. Currently the ship is in Lomé, Togo providing free surgeries and education to the people of western Africa.
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my grade 2 show and tell was like that. i brought my rocket (exactly like this one) to school, and launched it outside.
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My "moment" was watching Apollo 11 take off on the huge TV in my elementary school auditorium! Keep doing what you're doing to help kids have their moments!
GuydeLombard 2 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos 5
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Wow, that must have been amazing. So cool.
destinws2 2 weeks ago
Since he passed away the info from all his patents and research is public knowledge. on the NASA site. search it under the name Thomas C. Moore sr. you can find the labs and everything online. might be useful for a potential future experiment of yours. :-)
MrGizmo757 1 month ago
@MrGizmo757
Awesome
destinws2 1 month ago