Challenger Learning Center Fieldtrip

Abbey had a field trip at the Challenger Learning Center in Brownsburg last week. They went on a mission to Mars and I decided to tag along. The Challenger centers were created as living memorials to those who died in the Challenger explosion. There are 49 of them in the world and Brownsburg has one of them! The class divided into two groups. One group was stationed on Mars and they were in charge of monitoring the space ship that was coming to Mars. They each had different jobs that would exist on a space station, and in order to accomplish the mission each one of them had to fulfill their tasks. Abbey was on the Med team and had to record all of the medical tests that were being run and monitor the health of those on the space ship.

Here is a picture of Abbey at her station on Mars.

The other team was on a space ship heading to Mars to take the place of the other team on the station for two years. They had the same jobs on the space ship and also had tasks to complete. Half way through the mission the space ship landed on Mars and the crew from the Mars station got on the space ship to return back to earth.

On the space ship Abbey had to take the vitals of all of her crew mates and record the data. Here is a picture of Abbey tesing the radiation levels of one of her crew mates.